It STILL keeps getting WORSE: Maryland is now projected to have a $1.4 BILLION budget shortfall next year. That is after a $3 BILLION budget deficit this year. Here's my running LIST of what has happened to Maryland residents, so far, in 2025. -2026 $1.4 Billion budget

So, the administration that said all year that their tariffs don't affect US consumer prices - and mocked anyone who disagreed - NOW says that cutting those same tariffs will spur consumer savings? Comical stuff. Just comical.

I think it is notable that Heritage Foundation long defended free markets and opposed tariffs, but when Donald Trump said we should impose tariffs, Heritage abandoned its free market defense and swung wildly into the defense of tariffs. Now, Trump is rolling them back because they raised

“By admitting that lowering tariffs will lower prices for U.S. consumers, the Trump administration is acknowledging what economists have pointed out all along: tariffs raise prices,” said Erica York. wsj.com/economy/trade/… via The Wall Street Journal

Difficult news from Tim Carney. aei.org/op-eds/the-tru…

50% tariffs on Brazilian beef: ❌ Drought-thinned US herd: ❌ Sick illegal immigrant cows: 🤷

After a woman reporter asked about President Trump’s name being raised in emails sent by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Trump snaps at her: “Quiet, piggy!” Disgusting and completely unacceptable. cnn.com/2025/11/18/us/…

How I Found Out My Journalist Side Piece Was Cheating on Me With Her Fiancé freebeacon.com/satire/how-i-f…

The amazing thing about this Nuzzi business is seeing her get dunked on by other professional journalists who are only microscopically less whorish and inept at writing

Why isn’t the Heritage Foundation condemning Tucker Carlson? washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

Excellent figures on GHG emissions of livestock to put matters in perspective. Of course, for individual gases & specific types of livestock (think CH4 from cows) figures may be important on a continental scale. Would be good to update annually!

New Study by Decision Innovation Solutions: Meat & Poultry Processors Contribute $57.3 Billion to US Economy & Provide 584,000 Jobs meatinstitute.org/Economic_Contr…

Need economic data on what all meat and poultry packers and processors from the very small to the very large mean to your community or to the national economy? Search here for jobs, taxes, sales and value in every state and congressional district. meatinstitute.org/Economic_Contr…

Congrats to Oren Cass and American Compass on last week's award of a $1,500,000 grant from the progressive Hewlett Foundation! This brings Hewlett's total investment in the "conservative" think tank hawking tariffs, unionization, and industrial policy to $4.7 million since 2020 🫰🫰

Update: Calling all county residents! We still have about 40 turkeys left! Come on out to the Eastern District station to get yours.

Meat and poultry companies of all sizes have a significant impact on the US economy.

Putin cannot be rewarded for slaughtering thousands of people and kidnapping 20,000 Ukrainian children. Now is the time to increase the pressure - not take our foot off the gas.

Tyson Foods, America’s largest meat supplier, is planning to close one of its largest beef processing plants in Nebraska at a time when a cattle shortage in the U.S. squeezes meatpacking companies on.wsj.com/4oSC6FM

Putin has spent the entire year trying to play President Trump for a fool. If Administration officials are more concerned with appeasing Putin than securing real peace, then the President ought to find new advisors. Rewarding Russian butchery would be disastrous to America’s

Tyson’s beef unit lost $1.1 billion last year. They forecast $400-600 million in losses in 2026. They are operating below the cost of production. Around 14,000 head of beef packing capacity has been planned/announced in recent years. Likely that less than half will actually be