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Wall Street Journal
08-07-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
A Day Old and Deep in Debt
Regarding your editorial 'The GOP Gambles on 'Trump Accounts'' (July 7): Along with a $1,000 account, each new American baby will be born with around a $100,000 liability: his share of the national debt, which will only grow each year. As Tennessee Ernie Ford used to sing, we're all 'another day older and deeper in debt.' Kevin Clark
Washington Post
16-06-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
‘Joseph Smith' is a clear-eyed biography of the Mormon founder
Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith's claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too priapic, his messianic political ambitions too obviously insane. (In addition to running for president in 1844, he formed a council to establish world governance after the Second Coming of Christ.) If he were a musician, Smith would be Jerry Lee Lewis, not Tennessee Ernie Ford. He was just too rock and roll.
