China’s drought, reported on recently, is bad enough for the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to ussue an alert. Major agricultural regions face their worst drought in 60 years; Shandong Province the worst in 200 years. Twelve million acres are affected, and 2.75 million people. GR


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SCOTUS Poised to Handcuff the EPA
In the wake of reactionary rulings by the Supreme Court that seized a woman’s right to abortion after the Justices had unleashed potentially lethal freedoms to gun owners, one can only shudder at the prospect of the court’s upcoming decision on West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).