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Radical farm state idea — cropland for food, gasoline for cars Big Ethanol has wrapped itself in a cloak of environmentalism for decades, winning government mandates for the marketing and use of its product — they are finally being defrocked, … Continue reading →

the environment in particular (not to mention everyone’s’ pocketbook except the usual suspects). Nobody knows the struggle we’ve seen It seems sometimes that we have been but a voice in a pretty lonely corner in the contoured cultivated non-wilderness of … Continue reading →

Cruz vs Grassley feud is bigger than Northey We suppose corn chauvinism is to be expected as is petro chauvinism from farm and oil state Senators respectively.  But call the practitioners fair minded or conservative poseurs,  consistent or inconsistent, the … Continue reading →

We do not expect much to come from our Republican Congress regarding this report of an Obama agency thumbing its nose at the law. You can read the story here. The link is to virtually the same article at the … Continue reading →

Hell hath no fury like corporate welfare queens scorned Challenger gaffs the hand that feeds him News reports verify rumors and implications over the last couple of months that Iowa’s Fourth District Congressman Steve King will have a primary challenger.  … Continue reading →

We were going to say you are stupid . . . greedy . . . and your mother dresses you funny . . . but we decided against it. As Rich Lowry writing at the publication Freedom’s Back in an … Continue reading →

I woke up this morning thinking it was an ethanol hallucination, and no it was not from a bender the night before Wailing and gnashing of teeth heard coming from Branstad residence(s) An expensive local Today Show slot was filled … Continue reading →

Ben Carson sees the light, no longer an ethanol mandater Wind energy just as bad We have posted more than a few  articles on green energy boondoggles including wind farms and corn-based ethanol production.  Both “industries” are way too long … Continue reading →