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You will recall that John Calvin, the granddaddy of fundamentalist Protestant preachers, founded his theocracy in Geneva, Switzerland.
The granddaddy of the genre appeared 15 years ago in Newsweek ("Middle-Class Junkies," Aug. 10, 1981), with language that reads as fresh today as it did then.
Dump dad: The granddaddy of all the stupid social incentives isn't for kids, it's for dads.
The truth about government subsidies for real estate--including the granddaddy: the home-mortgage-interest deduction--is that they do very little to make housing more affordable.
I am disappointed that he missed perhaps the granddaddy of them all, one that once again broke into the front pages this last week.