Sunday, May 27, 2018

Don't Dial the Dash

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One of my pet ideas deals with the need to learn new things and the fact people do so, gradually incorporating what we've learned into a...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

Still Using Spreadsheets for Budget?

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Back in the day, I remember ASCS budgeting was being done, in part at least, by spreadsheets created by Joe Bryan.   Apparently some agencie...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Technology to the Rescue?

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This Technology Review piece outlines the possibility for technology replacing mass application of herbicides.  Using Moore's law means ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Why Not Trust Bureaucrats?

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Via a twitter mention, I got to this Weekly Standard article reporting on a discussion with the OMB/CPSB director, Mulvaney.  It's inte...
Monday, May 21, 2018

Remembering the Chinese Campaign Finance Scandal

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I'm cursed with a memory for politics.  These days I'm remembering the big scandal in the Clinton administration over allegations th...
Friday, May 18, 2018

A Rocky Road for the Farm Bill

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Apparently two sets of hurdles for the farm bill: one is the fight over the provisions in the bill, most notably the tightened work requi...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Partisanship in the Past

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Somewhere buried in my memory is an ancient view on partisanship, ancient meaning it dates to the Cold War or the rise of communism.  I thin...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Why There Was No Collusion

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The Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that the intel guys were right: Putin ordered his people to hurt Clinton and help Trump. ...

Import Brains, Export Ideas

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That's my formula to keep America great. One quote, from AEI: There is a stunting statistic that I almost always have to give these...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

"White" America

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An excerpt from a  Vox piece on biracial identity in America: "Before the election, we found that white people thought he [Obama] was...