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Are They Out of Session Yet?
SharingWhile Americans readily share power with their representatives, those representatives …
Blue Colorado Big Spenders
Sharing“The Trump years may have cemented Colorado’s blue-state status — time will …
The Legislature That Couldn’t Tax Straight
Sharing“If you lost count of how many new and higher …
Wisconsin’s Kumbaya Moment
SharingWith all our divisive politics, who would’ve thought it would …
Pension Declension
SharingThe ugliest truth about California’s newest, gimmick-ridden budget, is that …

Lost Justice, Long Island
November 15, 2024
Paul Jacob finds a sliver of a silver lining in …Read More »
Abolish. Or Set in Stone
November 13, 2024
Paul Jacob knows what to do with hypocrisy on at …Read More »
Destroying Dane Farming
November 12, 2024
Paul Jacob on Europe’s ongoing suicide over “greenhouse gases.”Read More »
Disaster Relief Pass-Over
November 11, 2024
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Exemplary Rejections
November 8, 2024
Paul Jacob celebrates voters in three states who protected their …Read More »

The Age of Octogenarians
As someone who fervently hopes to some day reach the …
Term Limits Apply to Socialists,Too
SharingWe don’t see a lot of pro-term-limits writing in our major, …
Beautiful Canary
SharingNew hope for Venezuela: A direct constitutional challenge against the horrific …
The Natural State of Politicians
SharingRepublicans took over both chambers of the Arkansas Legislature, last …
They’re Called Term Limits
SharingLooking for an exemplar of condescending witlessness? Take Steve Benen, …

Are Democrats Socialists?
SharingDoes it matter that the chair of the Democratic National …
Between the Devil and the Deep State, See?
Sharing“If it turns out that impeachment has no sting, has …
The Irony Law of Socialism
SharingUnder capitalism, said the old socialists, “the rich get richer …
The Cost of Reparations
SharingNearly 180 years ago, the Jesuits who ran Georgetown University sold …
Congress’s King
SharingPolitics today reveals a troubling dialectic. Thesis: President Trump boasts that …

Baaaaaa!
I’m With the Herd! Original (cc) photo by Jason Hollinger on Flickr …
Indicting Incumbency
How does that old, pithy anti-term limits slogan go, again? …
The Ignorance of Experts
Richard Phillips Feynman May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) …
Robert A. Heinlein on Political Labels
“Political tags such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, …
On Labor Day…
The fact that communists pretended to be “for labor” doesn’t …