Friday, November 11, 2011

CFTC and MF Global

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Chris Clayton has an o utstanding post on the House Agriculture Committee's oversight hearings--two paragraphs: "By my own coun...

Veteran's Day and Calvin Gibbs

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Today's Veteran's Day, a day on which many good words will be said and many good people honored.  But as a veteran myself, I want to...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Some People Never Learn: Erin Is Back

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Erin of Raising Country Kids is back, a good photographer (how can you fail with cute kids and a puppy), very good writer, and not having l...
Wednesday, November 09, 2011

US as a Christian Nation: an Omission

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Much debate over whether the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation. (Some of my forebears knew it wasn't a Christian nation because it ...

Oops: Typos in Opera

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From the Wolf Trap Opera blog : "Watch out for those typos, some of which are inadvertently helped along by word processing… My rece...

The Christmas Tree "Tax"

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Ann Althouse is only one of the people highlighting the new "tax" on Christmas trees. Unfortunately USDA has a tin ear for politi...
Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Election Report

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We voted today.  Elections for the state legislature, Fairfax county board, school board, bond issue, soil and water conservation district. ...
Monday, November 07, 2011

Farm Policy Versus EWG

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Keith Good at FarmPolicy critiques the EWG assault on crop insurance in t oday's post.   In other news the AG committees haven't bee...
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"I don't think the banks cared at all about borrowers."

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[Grin]  That's from a Calculated Risk post on lawsuits over MERS (the computerized system for recording mortgages]. What the writer ...
Sunday, November 06, 2011

Where's the WTO Rules?

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There's a blog, CAP Health, which discusses EU agricultural policy.  Based on a cursory review, it doesn't seem as if the EU is goin...