by jpitney | Mar 1, 2025 | Foreign Policy, Russia, Ukraine
Ronald Reagan, July 17, 1987: Our Nation offers the world a vision of inalienable political, religious, and economic rights. This vision has always been shared among peoples subjugated by Soviet imperialism; and so has resistance, ever the catalyst of liberty. Today,...
by jpitney | Feb 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Thanks to everyone for submitting an entry to the Dreier Roundtable op-ed contest. The entries were of uniformly high quality, so the decisions were difficult. Congratulations to the winners: First: Henry Long, “Walter Lippmann and the Problem of Responsible...
by jpitney | Feb 27, 2025 | Appropriations, Congress, Constitution, Elections, Separation of Powers, Transparency, Volunteering
Greg Ip at WSJ: Appropriations bills aren’t glamorous. But they are the one chance Congress gets each year to evaluate and direct the executive branch, said Eloise Pasachoff, a law professor at Georgetown University. “That’s why appropriations laws are thousands of...
by jpitney | Feb 26, 2025 | Homelessness, Housing
Ben Christopher at CalMatters: One California law was supposed to flip defunct strip malls across California into apartment-lined corridors. Another was designed to turn under-used church parking lots into fonts of new affordable housing. A third would, according to...
by jpitney | Feb 25, 2025 | Reagan, Russia
The President’s News Conference January 29, 1981 Now, as long as they do that and as long as they, at the same time, have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is what will further their cause, meaning they reserve unto themselves...
by jpitney | Feb 24, 2025 | Homelessness
.@jaredpolis: “Get government out of the way. The market and the price of housing is a function of supply and demand. The fact that demand is high in Colorado is wonderful…but we have artificial government-imposed constraints on supply.”...
by jpitney | Feb 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
by jpitney | Feb 22, 2025 | 2776, California Politics, Declaration of Independence, Local Government, Trade, Vaccine
At LAT, Steve Lopez writes of Mayor Bass: She told two local TV news outlets she wouldn’t have gone to Ghana as part of a presidential delegation on Jan. 4 if she’d been aware of the fire risk in Los Angeles. “If I had all the information I needed to have, the last...
by jpitney | Feb 21, 2025 | Presidency
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: Many executive orders in recent times were issued for national security reasons during wars or in the wake of terrorist attacks. They did not always sit well with the courts. Trump’s ordersare more scattershot and cover both domestic and...
by jpitney | Feb 20, 2025 | Congress, Elections, Transparency, Violence
Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair: According to one source with direct knowledge of the events, North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about “credible death threats” when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for...
