Mary Ann Evans - Common Sense with Paul Jacob

Mary Ann Evans

The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life, 1858.

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Term Limits (refresh for more)

Intentionally Confounding Incumbents
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Captured Congress
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Nashville’s Trojan Horse
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Hating the Senate
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The Article V Path
Can Americans term-limit Congress? Twenty-three states had passed term limits on …

Thought of the Day

[T]here is a proverbial maxim which bears witness to the advantage sometimes possessed by an observant bystander over those actually engaged in any transaction. “The looker-on often sees more of the game than the players.” Now the looker-on is precisely (in Greek) ὁ ἄνθρωπος φύσει πολιτικὸν ζῷον the theorist.
When then you find any one contrasting, in this and in other subjects, what he calls experience, with theory, you will usually perceive on attentive examination, that he is in reality comparing the results of a confined, with that of a wider, experience; — a more imperfect and crude theory, with one more cautiously framed, and based on a more copious induction.
Richard Whately, Introductory Lectures on Political Economy (1832), Lecture III.

— Richard Whately

Memes (refresh for more)

A Proud Progressive…
…bravely fighting income inequality one target at a time! Click the …
There must be…
There must be a less excruciating way to find the least …
Government Efficiency!
If government is the main buyer for prescription drugs, then …
Nobody Could Make This Stuff Up
Today’s headline: Radical Islamist Stages Gun Massacre in LGBT Nightclub! Caring …
Robert A. Heinlein on Political Labels
“Political tags such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, …

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