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This Week’s Two Biggest Stories (podcast)

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Post date November 24, 2019

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This Week in Common Sense, the podcast.

Citizens Triumphant
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The Natural State of Politicians
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Getting to Ballot in Illinois
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Strange It Is
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Organizing an Ouster
Despite everything, public schooling can help kids learn some important things. …

Noncriminal Advice Not a Crime
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Paul Jacob on the marketing of legal opioids.Read More »
A Declaration
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Is Milei Making It?
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Paul Jacob on the turn-around in the Argentine economy.Read More »
The Court v. the Power Grabbers
July 2, 2024
Paul Jacob celebrates the end of the Chevron regime.Read More »
Weekend at Biden’s
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Paul Jacob wonders when the gaslighting will cease.Read More »

The Politics of Inertia
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What Tiananmen Inspired
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Term Limits Poster Boy #98,992,938
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Keep Your Word, George
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Unlimited Gall
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9 Dangers of “Democratic Socialism”
SharingFirst… some definitions: Socialism advocates the public ownership and control of business and …
No-Study Politics
SharingThe 200-plus “youth activists” who stormed House Minority Leader Nancy …
Systemic Refocusing
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Are Democrats Socialists?
SharingDoes it matter that the chair of the Democratic National …
The Rank Reality of Math
SharingU.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R‑Maine) doesn’t like Ranked Choice Voting. Last …

The Liberty Bell left Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama – Pacific International Exposition, on July 5, 1915 — the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.

In 1937 on this date, Spam, the luncheon meat, was introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.

The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, was formally certified by President Richard Nixon on July 5, 1971.

On July 5, 1995, Armenia (flag, above) adopted its constitution, four years after the country’s independence from the Soviet Union.

More Common Sense from Tom Paine
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it …
How to Know
Many people don’t seem to realize that a prohibition (banning something) …
Net Neutrality Lunacy
“The very same government that couldn’t even build a functional website …
Tiananmen Square
“The same thing will happen in China that happened in …
Is Denmark Socialist?
First… some definitions: Socialism advocates the public ownership (or control) of business …