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Watch: Keep Your Friends Close and Your Clowns Closer

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Paul Jacob expands upon the big stories of the week — in under and hour!

This Week in Common Sense, March 23 — 27, 2020.

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Big Brother Plays in Traffic
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The Hill as Hallucinogen
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House-Cleaning & Law-Following
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Starting Somewhere With Term Limits
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One Incumbent Falls
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The Court-Packers
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Green Politicians and Ham
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What Kind of Ice Cream Cone?
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Leave Those Kids Alone
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Assault on Second Amendment Ricochets
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Gray Lady Commies
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Toxic Smile?
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On November 23, 1644, British poet John Milton published Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.

Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
John Milton, Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England (1644).

The name “Areopagitica” references a speech by Isocrates, the “Areopagitikós” that itself referenced a hill in Athens, Greece, the Areopagus, which had been the site of an important tribunal that the Greek orator had hoped to restore. It may also refer to the defense that St. Paul made before the Areopagus against charges of promulgating alien gods and outré teachings (see Acts 17:18 – 34).

Mega-state vs. Corporate Power
Building a mega-state to fight corporate power… …is like giving yourself AIDS …
Maybe they don’t know what they believe…
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The Uncommon Author of Common Sense
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Sartre: Equal Liberty
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The Socialist Pledge
What’s yours is mine, and what’s mine… is mine.