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We are living in a golden age of television. One TV writer recently wrote that for “the first time I’ve beg[un] to feel like there may, in fact, be too much good TV.”[1] From Game of Thrones to House of Cards to many other programs across networks and platforms, the quantity and quality of programming content is greater than we have ever known.

Over the weekend, syndicated columnist George F. Will wrote about a disturbing ruling in a French court. The court ruled that a video called “Dear Future Mom” produced by the Global Down Syndrome Foundation must be banned from French television. What triggered the censorship? Inciting violence? Hate-speech? Discrimination? The opposite, as it turns out. I’ll let Mr. Will tell the story:

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The U.S. national debt is just a few months away from exceeding $20 trillion – an astronomical sum of such epic proportions that it’s difficult to fathom. Trying to understand the scale of even a fraction of it can boggle the mind. For example, if you were to spend $1 million every day since Jesus was born, you’d still be about $2.5 billion short of spending $1 trillion, and another $19 trillion short of our national debt today. And if contemplating the sheer size of the debt isn’t overwhelming – and terrifying – enough, consider the meteoric speed at which it is increasing: every second of every day, the federal governments spends roughly $27,500 more than it takes in.