Donald J. Trump First Candidate to Reply to the ‘Sessions Test’

On February 5th, Breitbart News exclusively reported that Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) issued a list of five questions that all candidates must answer if they wish to seek the Republican nomination. In recent years, Sessions has emerged as the intellectual thought leader of the nation-state conservative movement. Sessions has articulated how mass immigration combined with reckless trade deals…

Fair Trade Romp in New Hampshire

So Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders won their respective New Hampshire primaries. [Ian Fletcher| February, 09 2016 | Huffington Post] From a fair-trade point-of-view, the news couldn’t be better. However the Eccentric Billionaire from Queens and the Eccentric Socialist from Brooklyn may differ, on this they agree. As I’ve written before, I think both Trump and Sanders are for…

Farm and Food: Free trade, free lunch

  We in agriculture talk about free trade agreements as if they are the international equivalent of a free lunch. All we need is a trade deal, we preach, and a full belly — easy profit — is an almost certainty. [Alan Guebert| February, 06 2016 | Journal Star] This lovely belief, of course, overlooks…