Obama the Beekeeper
May 20, 2015
The White House has announced an action plan aimed at “reversing dramatic declines in pollinators like honeybees, which play a vital role in agriculture, pollinating everything from apples and almonds to squash.” Obama plans to plant many types of wildflowers to help “restore 7 million acres of bee-friendly habitat that have been lost to urbanization, development and farming.”
Is there any area of life and commerce where the federal government has not intervened and meddled?
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

