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  • Buckle Up . . . Or Else (Tales from the nanny state)

    05/23/2004 2:18:30 PM PDT · by RWR8189 · 30 replies · 437+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | May 31, 2004 | Andrew Ferguson
    EVEN THOUGH ROUGH WINDS do shake the darling buds thereof, I think we can all agree that May is a fabulous month, flush and lusty as the poets say, a time to gather knots of flowers, and buds and garlands gay. It is the month above all of Mother's Day, made doubly so by the decision of the United States government to transform itself for a few weeks every May into a kind of Mom for everybody--your Mom, my Mom, even our Moms' Mom. And this national Mom has a few things she'd like to get settled right here and...