Rep. Paul Ryan has a great idea for getting the U.S. budget in shape. He’ll cut tax rates, and Democrats will decide which tax write-offs to eliminate. “Everything will be on the table,” Rep. Paul says, and he means everything. If the Democrats want to eliminate deductability of health insurance costs, home mortgages, tuition, he’ll…
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What we talk about when we drink $350 bottles of wine
Over at the New Criterion, a site I should really stop visiting, Charles Murray, about whom I should probably stop writing, has a piece that, well, that I’m writing about, called, for whatever reason, Future tense, IX: Out of the wilderness.* Murray’s springboard is a book he published back in 2004, Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit…