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Wendy McElroy

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Duck/Rabbit, Maiden/Crone, and Taxes
Revolution! Must we? Can’t we reform at a reasonable pace? Well, whether …
Lifetime Politicians Ruin Christmas
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On the Road in South America, Part One
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The 6 Percent Solution
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Spoiler Season
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Only a Test?
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Precogs in the Machine
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Girls [sic] Sports Saved
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Paul Jacob on a matter bigger than proper punctuation.Read More »
Droning On
December 16, 2024
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Trump’s Libertarian Promise
December 13, 2024
Paul Jacob hopes the president-elect keeps his word.Read More »

Illinois’s Chicken-and-Fish Supreme Court
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Beautiful Canary
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Conflicts Perplexing Prominent Politicians
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The Fix Wasn’t In
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Corporate Domination?
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That Time Paul Harvey Called Me on the Phone
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I Am Hong Kong
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The Venezuela Chaos
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Il Duce Cuomo
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The Fifth Century Begins
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On December 19, 1776, Tom Paine published one of a series of pamphlets in the Pennsylvania Journal titled The American Crisis. Exactly one year later, George Washington’s Continental Army went into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

On December 19, 1828, Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun penned the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, arguing against the Tariff of 1828, a key moment in what became known as the Nullification Crisis.