Tuesday, July 31, 2018

DOJ Says TRump Lies?

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That's the gist of this post at lawfareblog.com.
Monday, July 30, 2018

Implementing the Trade War Payments I

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Agweb has the announcement of the CCC programs, which include these details (from Jim Wiesemeyer, who was a pain in the neck  back in 1983 d...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

Succesion on the Farm

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NYTimes has an op-ed on Trump's trade war, focusing on the emptying of the rural landscape.   His example: A friend, a small-town Iow...
Friday, July 27, 2018

Five Out of Six Elections Lost--Learn From the Past

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Joe Scarborough had an op-ed in the Post this morning. He wrote "Republicans would win the White House in six of the next seven presid...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

USDA in a Best Seller?? Maybe in a Movie?

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Improbable as it seems, it's possible, not certain but possible, that USDA will be featured in a best selling book available for its bur...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Thoughts on the Trump Bailout

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Apparently the Market Facilitation Program payments will be tied to actual production: I wonder how the program provisions will interact ...

The Post, Farmers, and the Trump Bailout

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Via Tamar Haspel on twitter, the Washington Post has a page asking farmers for their input on the Trump bailout program, including contact...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Ted Williams

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I'm old enough to have followed Ted Williams during the end of his career and then when he was manager of the Washington Nationals. I wa...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

Sport and Video Games

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As a followup to my post on the decline of sports in Reston the NYTimes had a piece on "esports" getting together with the IOC.
Friday, July 20, 2018

Haspel on Greenberg's Mistaken Times Op-Ed

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Tamar Haspel should be followed by anyone interested in food policy. Here she offers good criticism of a Paul Greenberg op-ed in the Times...