Archive for April 29th, 2007
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
The Jungle in China
Scary news about Chinese food scandals hopping the ocean to our shores and others:
The pet food case is also putting China’s agricultural exports under greater scrutiny because the country has had a terrible food safety record.
In recent years, for instance, China’s food safety scandals have involved everything from fake baby milk formulas and soy sauce […]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Garance
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Durbin on the Pre-War Intelligence
Crooks and Liars has video of Sen. Dick Durbin talking about how members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which John Edwards also sat on, received classified pre-war briefings that let them know that the the president was lying about Iraq’s nuclear program — the same nuclear program Edwards cited in 2003, based on his access […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Garance
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
John Edwards, Four Years Ago
Looking for something unrelated, I came across this interview with John Edwards at the JFK Library from May 4, 2003. Here’s Edwards on the war, when it really mattered, and when he had the power to stand up and speak out as an elected official:
I supported what we did in Iraq. Some of you […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Garance
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Comment Policy
This site has had a registration-only comment policy in an effort to prevent the hundreds of pornographic spam comments it is bombarded with on a daily basis from getting through. As an experiment and due to popular request, I have removed the registration feature. We’ll see how this goes.
2 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Garance
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Taking on Big Ag
Todd Zywicki at The Volokh Conspiracy flags this New York Times Magazine story from last weekend on how our agricultural policies are making us fat, and bless him for it. This is one of my policy pet peeves. Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, took to The Times to argue:
the current farm bill helps […]
