Paul Luvera Journal

This week the Sunday New York Times had a piece about Jonathan Klein, C.E.O. of Getty Images. Several things he said  during the interview I thought worthwhile. One of them was about advice his father would  give him as child: "And he would say: 'Jonathan, you talk too much. There's a reason you have two ears and one mouth. If you'd shut your mouth, you might learn something." Epictetus, a Greek philosopher who lived about the time of Christ, said:…

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 I've written about a heiress  on two different occasions. She was rarely in the news, but on  May 6, 2010 I wrote about her www.paulluverajournalonline.com/weblog/2010/03/multimillionare-william-a-clark-and-his-daughter-huguette.html and again on May 27, 2011 https://paulluverajournalonline.com/weblog/2011/05/the-billionare-you-have-probably-never-heard-about-huguette-clark.html. Her father was  a copper magnate who virtually bought himself a United States  Senate appointment from Montana  in 1890's. She grew up in France, California and her father's 121 room mansion in New York.  She married in 1928 and divorced in 1930. She had no children and never  remarried. Huguette Clark was a reclusive millionaire who…

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American has had a history of involvement in war in one place after another since World War II ended. We were engaged in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. The war was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by the Allies at the end of World War II. The United States pushed the UN Security Council to authorize military intervention in Korea and then provided 90% of the soldiers involved. It was our war that ended…

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