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“Freedom to Farm”: GOP Hypocrisy – then and now

…wonders of the 1996 so-called Freedom to Farm Act (the last major previous farm legislation). Such praise vivifies how few people in Washington look beyond the deceptive label congressmen attached…

Train Drain

…era not only by “free market” conservatives but also by many Democrats worried about inflation and U.S. competitiveness. The consumer activist Ralph Nader and liberal Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy were united in…