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Amendment 2 … In Plain English
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Blue Colorado Big Spenders
Sharing“The Trump years may have cemented Colorado’s blue-state status — time will …
Oregon’s $10,000 Innocent-Bystander Fine
SharingIn Oregon, it is now a crime to be both an …
Meet the Mob
SharingNorth Dakota faces a serious problem: The Mob. “The point of being …
The Great Faction
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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
Paul Jacob on partisanship at FEMA.Read More »
Exemplary Rejections
November 8, 2024
Paul Jacob celebrates voters in three states who protected their …Read More »
Not Now
November 7, 2024
Paul Jacob on political lessons to be learned — or …Read More »

Democratic-Republican Day
Sharing“We live in a republic,” I often hear, “not a democracy!” Sometimes it …
Cheaters Never Prosper
Sharing“I want to go home,” Arkansas State Senator Jon Woods whimpered. …
Missouri Shows Article V Action
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Checking Specter
SharingPennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter is an important man. How do …
Don’t think legislators deserve a 150% pay raise?
SharingThe Arkansas legislature is on track to receive a massive pay …

The Irony Law of Socialism
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Bernie and Economic Law
SharingOne of the things Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is known …
I Am Hong Kong
Sharing“I love my students so much,” a protesting teacher in Hong …
Slavery Is Not Free-Market Capitalism
SharingTarring free-market capitalism and limited government with the brush of …
Don’t Think Different
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On this day in 1833, Denison Olmsted was alerted by his neighbors to something truly amazing, a night sky filled with shooting stars.

Not just a one or two or a dozen or a hundred: 72,000 or more per hour. Though recognizing where among the constellations meteors came from was ancient knowledge, it had not been recorded by modern-era scientists, at least in this case. What Olmsted noticed was that the meteors were coming from one point in the sky, the constellation Leo. This regular meteor event is now called the Leonid meteor stream.

In the morning, Olmsted wrote a brief report on the meteor storm for the New Haven Daily Herald newspaper, which elicited correspondence from around the country, thus beginning a social storm, in a sense: crowd-sourced science.

Tom Paine and “The Crisis”
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Mega-state vs. Corporate Power
Building a mega-state to fight corporate power… …is like giving yourself AIDS …
More Common Sense from Tom Paine
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it …
Nanny-State No-No
Maybe your political beliefs have gone too far… when you …
Alexander Cockburn, First Rule of Journalism
“The First Rule of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather …