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At the end of a yearlong investigation and undercover sting, the federal government is finally taking action to bring down an interstate Amish raw milk operation run by the Rainbow Acres Farm in Pennsylvania. The moo-juice in question is unpasteurized and therefore its interstate sales run afoul of U.S. law. Law-abiding citizens can now go [...]
Filed under: Food
Today the Swiss franc made yet another new high against the super dollar, as it has been doing for 120 days. What you are reading in the graphs is less and less of the foreign currency that one dollar can buy. Of course, gold and silver also consistently hit new highs. Swiss franc:
Filed under: Economics
When Ron Paul ran for president in 2008, polls showed that Americans-at-large were worried about an increasingly bad economy, angry at Washington for bailing out Wall Street and weary of the Iraq War. GOP primary voters found themselves defending a Republican president who was on the unpopular side of all three issues, supporting a Republican [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Economics, Politics
Well, it sure didn’t take long for the Tucson Truce to collapse. After Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot on Jan. 8 by a berserker who killed six others, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl, and wounded 13, the media were aflame with charges the right had created the climate of hate in which [...]
Remember those remaining US nuclear reactors of the same design as Fukushima? Some are in Alabama. Reuters: All three units at TVA’s 3,274-megawatt Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Alabama tripped about 5:30 EDT (2230 GMT) after losing outside power to the plant, a spokesman for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said. A TVA spokeswoman said [...]
Filed under: environment
The paltry menu of downcast Republican contenders for the 2012 election has left many conservatives wanting. But the truth of it is, Republicans already have a candidate who fits their desires and who has one of the most dependable assets for Election Day success on his side: incumbency. Bush Republicans, at least, seem to have [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized
Cue Ride of the Valkyries. Ben Bernanke is pre-flighting the helicopter. He explained today it’s become necessary to Destroy the Dollar in Order to Save It (transcript courtesy of Zero Hedge): Q: There are critics who say that Fed policy has driven down the value of the dollar and a lower value to the dollar reduces [...]
This New Yorker piece on recent Wikileaks documents on Guantanamo brilliantly summarizes the Bush — and now Obama — detention policy: Here are some of the reasons we’ve held people at Guantánamo, according to files obtained by WikiLeaks and, then, by several news organizations: A sharecropper because he was familiar with mountain passes; an Afghan “because [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Politics, War
Fed Chairman Bernanke is giving his first press conference. Watching it via the Wall Street Journal live feed, the viewer is presented with this most appropriate advertisement: Some press handler should advise Bernanke to use the singular pronoun more often. The Fed chairman awkwardly refers to the Fed making policy in the plural “we,” even [...]
Political analysts at ABC News place Ron Paul and Donald Trump in the same category, the “fringe.” Their headline yesterday: Donald Trump and Ron Paul: Republican Fringe Out in Front of 2012 Field But don’t worry, folks — the rest of the analysis, which reads in part like a high school civics essay, reassures us that less scary [...]
Filed under: Politics