American Greatness

Toyota announced on Monday that it will be doubling the size of its San Antonio, Texas plant and moving most of its Tacoma pickup manufacturing from Mexico to the U.S., over the next four years. The Daily Wire reports that Toyota’s $3.6 billion investment will add a second assembly line, create up to 2,000 new jobs by 2030 and increase annual production capacity by 150,000 vehicles. Gov. Abbott today announced Toyota’s $3.6 billion expansion in San Antonio.

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A federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump’s pardons for those charged in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot do not apply to a Virginia man accused of planting pipe bombs near the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national committees before the attack. U.S. District Judge Amir Ali declined to dismiss the case against Brian J.

The Trump administration on Tuesday reimposed sanctions on Iranian oil and petrochemical sales after Tehran reportedly attacked three vessels near the Strait of Hormuz. The Treasury Department revoked a sanctions waiver issued June 21 that had temporarily allowed transactions involving Iranian crude oil, petroleum products and petrochemicals. Companies have until July 17 to wind down transactions previously authorized under the waiver, which had been set to remain in effect through August 21.

The Justice Department is warning state election officials that they could face criminal penalties if they fail to carry out their responsibilities under federal election law, including measures designed to prevent noncitizens from voting in federal elections.

On the nation’s 250th anniversary, the mayor of the country’s largest city sat at a desk once used by George Washington and told Americans what was wrong with American exceptionalism. The story of this country, he said, has too often been written by people told they did not belong. Its achievements were really won by the excluded, in spite of America. Dissent, not gratitude, he intoned, is the truest form of patriotism.

Critics of the policies that have turned California into the most inhospitable place in America to do business or try to make a living tend to focus on outgoing Governor Gavin Newsom. But California is a one-party state. Other entrenched politicians play a powerful supporting role, and Attorney General Rob Bonta is a prime example.

“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.” That’s a rather more concise way of expressing “Chesterton’s Fence”: a principle that urges us to exercise caution before we sweep away institutions, practices, buildings, and structures without fully understanding why they came to exist in the first place. The fence is a homely example, befitting the great fat man himself, but real-world instances have been devastating and tragic and anything but quaint.

Maine Democrat candidate Graham Platner is refusing to drop out of the Senate race after being accused of rape unless he gets to approve his successor, the New York Post reported Tuesday. The political winds shifted decidedly against the Maine Democrat Monday, after the latest sexual abuse allegations dropped in POLITICO.

Former Democrat candidate for Florida governor, Andrew Gillum, was arrested in Daphne, Alabama, last week on several drug charges, including possession of dangerous drugs after a search of his car uncovered methamphetamine. Police stopped Gillum, 46, on Thursday for erratic driving and during the stop, one of the officers saw a glass pipe on the center console of the vehicle, the Miami Herald reported.