Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Eating Local

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"Eating local", meaning buying food from local farmers, often through community supported agriculture (see USDA link ) is getting...
Monday, July 30, 2007

FDR Wasn't Always a Liberal

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Bureaucracy

Bureaucrats versus Founding Fathers--Classic Quote

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I highly recommend " Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution", by Charles Rappleye. ...
Sunday, July 29, 2007

What Happens When A Farm Program Ends

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The report is that Virginia tobacco acreage has increased a bit, after falling after the end of the program. Of course, this means nothing....
Friday, July 27, 2007

House Passes Farm Bill

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What does passage mean? (It was interesting, watching Sec. Johanns at the National Press Club on one C-SPan channel while the final votes ...
Thursday, July 26, 2007

Why Most Terrorists Are Incompetent

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That's the title of a piece in Slate by Tim Harford. The focus is really on the background of terrorists, which turns out, according to...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Watching NPR's Honor Roll

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The Lehrer News Hour regularly runs its "honor roll" of military members who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's hard not...

More Bad Publicity on Payment Limitation

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John Phipps at Agweb refers to two articles, here and here in the Springfield Journal-Register on cases where big payments were made to...

Sen. Roberts on Farm Bill

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As chair of the House Ag committee, then-Rep. Pat Roberts (R-KS) pushed the "Freedom to Farm" component of the 1996 farm bill. It...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Apollo 11 and Graphics

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The National Archives puts up a daily document from the files. This one from last week brought back nostalgia, showing the primitive state...