August 13, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Under Paul Ryan's tax plan, Mitt Romney would have paid around 0.82% on his income of $21 million in 2010.
- Ryan: The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand.
- Insurers and patients consider whether someone is worth more dead than alive.
- A medical student proposes the government cover his training, and he'll specialize in what we need, where we need it.
- U.S. Army promotes its first openly gay general.
- Up to 4% of the sand on Normandy's "Omaha" beach is composed of D-Day shrapnel.
- Gifts sent by David Rakoff.
- In one of his last appearances, Rakoff reads "Stiff as a Board, Light as a Feather."
- According to Stuart, his 12-year-old daughter Madeline was the person most responsible for Willy Wonka.
- Rod Serling on the origin of good ideas.
