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As the federal budget climbs like a crazy vine toward a trillion bucks (that’s the one with 12 zeroes, if you’re still keeping track), lo, the Washington Post comes through with a piece on “The Misers of Capitol Hill.” “Congress’s spendthrift image is a bad rap,” we are informed. Glad to set the record straight.

You might expect caution and coyness in an election year, but the day after the Announcement, President Reagan spoke to a convention of the National Religious Broadcasters in clarion tones. He condemned abortion, specifically referring to the agony of the unborn who are being destroyed; and he endorsed school prayer again. What’s more, he tweaked that great liberal holy of unholies, the ACLU, for criticizing his proclamation of 1983 as “Year of the Bible”: “1 wear their indictment like a badge of honor.” national review is strongly tempted to support the President for re-election.

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As the federal budget climbs like a crazy vine toward a trillion bucks (that’s the one with 12 zeroes, if you’re still keeping track), lo, the Washington Post comes through with a piece on “The Misers of Capitol Hill.” “Congress’s spendthrift image is a bad rap,” we are informed. Glad to set the record straight.

You might expect caution and coyness in an election year, but the day after the Announcement, President Reagan spoke to a convention of the National Religious Broadcasters in clarion tones. He condemned abortion, specifically referring to the agony of the unborn who are being destroyed; and he endorsed school prayer again. What’s more, he tweaked that great liberal holy of unholies, the ACLU, for criticizing his proclamation of 1983 as “Year of the Bible”: “1 wear their indictment like a badge of honor.” national review is strongly tempted to support the President for re-election.