Agricultural Digest
As you may recall from our June edition, a true family farm in the heart of Cranbury, New Jersey, was to be seized by eminent domain to build some affordable housing. At the time, proprietor Andy Henry promised to fight any such move, should it come to that. Well, it came to that — and Henry won! His 21-acre, 175-year-old livestock farm in the middle of the Jersey exurbs will live on, thanks to the challenges filed by his lawyer Timothy Duggan, and presumably public sentiment, which seems to be that getting rid of a 175-year-old farm to build government-imposed housing is the type of thing that happens in hellholes like Venezuela.
Even New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy seems to agree. In a statement released October 23rd, Murphy said: “New Jersey’s family farms are an essential and deeply cherished part of our state’s story. For 175 years, the Henry Family Farm has stood on South River Road in …
Squirrels, Rise Up!
It takes a worried squirrel to make liberals go nuts
They have nothing to lose but their Elodonts
The squirrel is a lonesome, worried, restless creature. It lives on its own, without allies, without protectors. It has its teeth and claws. It has its acorns. It hoards its acorns, as many as it can gather, because, for a squirrel, the future is uncertain, and it knows not to count on help, including human help, should times get hard.
Occasionally, though, human beings do take squirrels as pets, easing the lot of these most anxious animals, with fascinating but complicated results.
America should hardly need reminding that it has been just over a year since P’Nut, the most famous pet squirrel in history with 500,000 followers on Instagram, suffered an unjust, untimely death at the hands of New York State wildlife officials who’d ripped him from the happy home provided for him by Mark Longo, his fellow influencer. Having learned to rely on Longo for necessities, P’Nut went on to entertain …
America by the Numbers
250 — Estimated cost of the California wildfires over the past year (in billions)
12 — Insurance payouts related to California wildfires over the past year (in billions)
5 — People who watched Tucker Carlson’s cordial interview with Nick Fuentes (in millions)
11.1 — Tons of Qatari urea being imported into the US by the Koch brothers over the next 15 years (in millions)
62 — Global happiness ranking of Americans under 30 (below Moldova, Bosnia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Cyprus, and the Dominican Republic, and barely above Malaysia)
53 — Increase since 2003 in the percentage of Americans who report having eaten all of their meals alone the previous day
43 — Percentage decline in cases of …
