Expect beef prices to soar, possibly by the midterms. Ranchers are refusing to self-report screwworm in their cattle. Why? USDA policy means a positive find triggers quarantine/confiscation of the wh… (View Post)

As Richard T has often pointed out, that would effectively obsolete a lot of very costly and still useful pipeline infrastructure which would no longer be economic to maintain, and restarting explora… (View Post)

Pragmatists should be in favour, IMO. It's not the most significant of issues facing us, by some distance (which is a flaw in the arguments of most of those most vocally in favour) but the argum… (View Post)

My wife, who is American, will not visit again until Trump is gone. (View Post)

He was not great at foreign policy. While there's far more of a case for the US givikng its opinion on Brexit than the current Trump administration intervention, he would have done far better to… (View Post)