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...universe he envisions, the tax system is only the first thing to go. Instead of entitlements, he prefers retirement accounts, medical savings accounts and "payments in kind" to welfare mothers, meaning "everything from food to medicine to diapers. Stuff that's hard for a mom to convert for substance abuse." Contrary to reports that he is intent on returning America to the gold standard, he says the gold standard is not a "perfect barometer" and if someone has a better one, "whether wampum, Snickers bars or seashells or whatever, I'll be ready to listen." When he talks about family...
...Medians have no children yet. This would have stood out in 1970, when 92% of women Carol's age had already given birth. "My mom had her third by the time she was 32," she notes. "I want a child, but the time has to be right." Here too the statistics put Carol right in the middle. The current projection is that a typical 1,000 American women will end up having 2,046 children, which is below replacement level. Immigration is the chief reason our population keeps growing...
...MOVIES ALWAYS MAKE ME cry. Isn't that how the old pop song went? For a hundred years, moviemakers of no special talent have known that the simple act of putting a pretty thing in jeopardy--tying Sweet Sue to the railroad tracks, killing off Bambi's mom--will win an audience's hot tears and huzzahs. Sentiment, a human feeling or failing, is honorable; the uses to which it is often put are not. But that is for the individual viewer to judge. If a film touches you, you call it profound. If it has everyone around you sobbing...
...Stoneface," who spoke three languages and served as an intelligence officer, but was passed over for full colonel twice because he didn't hide his contempt for incompetent superiors. His mother was the gentle buddy who sometimes let her kids stay home from school just to be with mom, but would hide them in the closet at lunchtime when Bob came home so he wouldn't get angry. Newt never openly challenged his father's strict rules. He just ignored them...
...time for the British to realize that successful breeding isn't always consistent with "family values." After all, the only humane solution would have been to let Charles run off with Camilla long ago, leaving a test tube of sperm behind in Buckingham Palace. His mom could then have distributed it among hundreds of female volunteers in a kind of genetic Bake-Off--with the throne then being awarded to the most boring and phlegmatic child that resulted. The next step would be to take away the royals' allowances, which amount to $15 million a year for the lot. Princess...