Article — Youth unemployment hits 25.9% in U.S. in September, Wall Street Journal

“The September teen unemployment rate hit 25.9%” — There always needs to be bottom-rung entry-level jobs (and to be fair, people who aren’t too proud to do those jobs, a concept some teens and 20-somethings don’t always get). I’m not a fan of the push for 100% college-attendance rates for teens, since college graduates now [...]

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Article — How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendships (from Wall Street Journal online)

I agree with a lot of what Ms. Bernstein has to say in her article. And yes, I do realize I was guilty of many of these same faults a few months ago. Making more time to actually talk or write to friends is one of the reasons why I’m not on Facebook nearly as [...]

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Book recommendations about Russia and the Cold War

From today’s OpinionJournal Five Best column, here are recommendations for five books about Russia and the Cold War:

The Twenty Years’ Crisis: 1919-1939 by E.H. Carr (Macmillan, 1939). — Never heard of it, but it sounds interesting.
Darkness at Noon” by Arthur Koestler (Macmillan, 1941) — Another one I’ve never heard of, although I have heard [...]

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