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This morning I saw a license plate reading "NOT PC." Excessive political correctness is undesirable, but I'd still rather avoid people who make being not-PC their personality or identity.

The notion of turning each petition signature into a $250 contribution is about as plausible as the deeply flawed math of replacing existing income, sales, property, and inheritance taxes with a 7.5% consumption tax with a base not that much broader than the current sales tax's.

Under the UK's VAT, which zero-rates most food and food ingredients, but taxes sweets and confections, (1) mini marshmallows are exempt from VAT as ingredients, (2) regular marshmallows are taxed at 20%, and (3) under a new ruling, mega marshmallows are also exempt. Why? Well:

You check your Trump Fight Fight Fight red watch ($499), and see that you're on in a minute. You silence the ringer on your Trump Mobile T1 Phone ($499 with $47.45 / month service plan) and step on stage, rocking your TRUMP low top sneakers ($299), a Trump Presidential Edition

I often find myself overloading on descriptions of how a series is adjusted for inflation, because even though you say "real," "constant dollars," or "inflation-adjusted," it's all but guaranteed that someone will come back with "you forgot to adjust for inflation!"

Today in "evangelical grandmother or Department of Homeland Security?"

China is once again testing whether one can legislate reincarnation

Measures that many avowed fiscal conservatives couldn't support as insufficiently pure: Simpson-Bowles The Obama-Boehner Grand Bargains The Gang of Six Framework The Supercommittee Framework Measures they can support: One Big Beautiful Bill, evidently

I think we can all agree that policy experts are in an occupation which customarily and regularly receives tips, right?

There obviously is.

I just discovered that 35% of all weekly attendees of the 878 congregation Evangelical Covenant Church denomination attend one of the campuses of a single multi-site megachurch, Life Church. I doubt that can be matched in any other denomination.

The women definitely sound like better friendship material.

Martin Luther would have concurred with this card's description of papal powers.