by jpitney | Aug 20, 2025 | Agriculture, California Politics
Caroline Petrow-Cohen at LAT: The last factory in California that turns sugar beets into sugar is shutting down after 78 years, according to the company that owns the factory. The closure means the elimination of hundreds of local jobs and possibly the end of sugar...
by jpitney | Aug 18, 2025 | Trade
Steven Greenhouse at The Guardian: The president and his aides insist that higher tariffs on more than 100 countries – making goods imported from overseas more expensive – will spur domestic manufacturing. “The ‘Made in USA’ label is set to resume its global dominance...
by jpitney | Aug 17, 2025 | Canada, Foreign Policy, Mexico, Reagan, Russia, Trade
Ronald Reagan’s Announcement of Candidacy, November 13, 1979: On the foreign front, the decade of the 1980s will place severe pressures upon the United States and its allies. We can expect to be tested in ways calculated to try our patience, to confound...
by jpitney | Aug 16, 2025 | Judiciary
Federalist 78: This independence of the judges is equally requisite to guard the Constitution and the rights of individuals from the effects of those ill humors, which the arts of designing men, or the influence of particular conjunctures, sometimes disseminate among...
by jpitney | Aug 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: The Supreme Court’s decision in McGrain v. Daugherty in 1927 held that Congress has an inherent right to compel testimony and conduct oversight as part of its constitutional lawmaking functions. The case was an offshoot of the Teapot...
