Dear Readers:
"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won."
When the Duke of Wellington penned those words in 1815, he was referring to the terrible loss of life his British army suffered in defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. But the sentiment could also apply to political battles, for which victory is never permanent but only a prelude to the next battle, and the next, and the next.
What brings this to mind is the recent "victory" some ag groups won when Ohio voters overwhelmingly passed Initiative 2, which establishes a 13-member ...
