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Franklin Roosevelt's Administration started farm aid in response to the Dust Bowl and the Depression, calling it "a temporary solution to deal with an emergency." But in Washington, the emergency has never ended. The government still gives farmers your money--more than ever over the past decade--along with research projects to expand their yields, restoration projects to clean up their messes, flood-control and irrigation projects to protect and enhance their land, visa programs to supply them with cheap labor, ethanol mandates and tariffs to boost their prices, and tax breaks by the bushel...
Sorry. It’s time to start getting excited about the stakes of The Game, scheduled for two weeks from tomorrow in the Yale Bowl. Both Harvard and Yale enter this weekend with 4-0 records in the Ivy League. There is a chance that either team could drop one of its next two winnable games—the Crimson plays at Columbia and home against Penn, while the Bulldogs host Brown and travel to Princeton—but only a tiny one that either will lose both. That means the league title will be on the line...
Take the points, but no upset at the Bowl...
...After all, while Patriots quarterback Tom Brady assaults the gaudy single-season passing records set by Colts QB Peyton Manning, the defending Super Bowl champ, the best players in baseball and hoops, Alex Rodriguez and Kobe Bryant, are sabotaging their sports with selfishness...
...cultural immersion. What’s more American than paying a bunch of money for a ridiculous costume that you’ll only wear once?” As far as patriotic celebrations go, I think you may be neglecting Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July. Super Bowl Sunday? “Blatant symbols of colonialist repression and American exceptionalism. My favorite holidays are Diwali and Bastille Day.” I read somewhere that Americans will shell out $5 billion on Halloween this year. Spending’s up more than 50% since 2005. But it?...