I am sorry to be late on a glorious Saturday morning. There is a lot going on. The War might be tomorrow, according to the people in Washington. They seem to be releasing what we knew as “classified” information in an off-the-cuff manner intended to undermine the Russian narrative that somehow the Ukrainian government is […]

Sorry- this is a topic we have been working on at the Farm. It ties into everything that is going on, but in the words of a recent candidate for high office, “At this point what difference does it make?” Well, here is how. The Three Felonies story dates back aways, and was one of […]

This is a preliminary announcement of a project decades in the making. Working with the outstanding staff at Politics & Prose in DC, we are about to launch publication of an epic history of a Great American, RADM Donald “Mac” Showers. We worked together on the book, episode by episode, through his amazing World War […]

The Attorney stood in DeMille’s usual place at the apex of the circle- better said, an “oval” around what usually would have been a roaring fire. It was not this morning. It was dark and featureless. The black of the cast iron was amplified by the soot coating the interior of the glass panel on […]

Almost 40 degrees in Virginia’s Piedmont. Sunny skies tracked with passing jets and thin cirrus clouds. One has the feeling that the earth is preparing for some seasonal change. Not ready, not yet, but the mood fits with what is going on overseas. Some say it is a ‘wag the dog’ quotation from an old […]

08 June 1979 Editor’s Note: The War Clouds swirl. NATO versus Russia still loom, but is there a change in the intent of Mr. Putin? The nature of the world is in change. The Olympics continue through the end of the week. What will the powers do on the world stage? A doctor’s appointment looms […]

(Buck Tullock, Noted Refuge Farm Economist ). It was a strange afternoon. Considering that the NFL doesn’t have the following it once did at Refuge Farm there was a certain rising tide of the public mood as the hours passed. Since Splash had made the Saturday trip to Belmont Farms to do some moonshine stockpiling, […]