No one who likes motherhood or apple pie would disagree with any of that.

ECONOMIST: Welfare benefits

Ms. Reid and her dozen assistants also recently experimented with several Christmas beers, brewing a peppermint stout as well as gingerbread, raisin and apple-pie ales that might one day make their way to store shelves.

WSJ: Creating: Rebecca Reid, Brewmaster at Anheuser-Busch

The little bit at the base is the Sherman Act of 1890, a motherhood-and-apple-pie affair that outlaws monopolies and attracted only one dissenting vote in its passage through Congress.

ECONOMIST: Beleaguered Microsoft