The Food Story:

Recently, I made a trip through the Midwest, where the big story was rain, a surplus of it. Farmers could not get into their fields to plant crops. The food story has finally hit the northeast, where The New York Times has done a story on what will inevitably become one of the most serious issues world wide.

As the world's population continues to grow, food production becomes increasingly important. In the decades since The Green Revolution of the 1960s, population growth has seemed a back burner issue. Fertilizers, pesticides, genetic manipulation seemed to have solved the problem of having enough food to feed the world's population. Starvation was a political issue, a matter of transportation, not our ability to grow food. No one seemed to consider that their might be limits to our ability to produce food, especially in the United States, where plentiful, cheap food has been a given throughout the country's history.

NOTE: 50 percent of world food aid comes from the United States. This harms local farmers in the countries which receive that aid, because their crops go unsold or are sold for a lesser price. The United States purpose in providing this food aid is motivated by local politics. Taxpayer moneys purchase the food from U. S. farmers, whose crop prices are inflated due to this program.

The Dude on the separation of church and state: "That's called, 'A Charge To Keep,' based upon a religious hymn. The hymn talks about serving God. The president's job is never to promote a religion." — George W. Bush, Washington, D. C., 2006.

The American Citizen—Spell That "D-e-b-t-o-r":

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead addresses "the new economy" in "A Nation in Debt," featured in The American Interest.