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This Week in Common Sense, August 17 – 21, 2020.

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Lifetime Politicians Ruin Christmas
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In the Pudding
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“Deceptive” Charge “Misleading”
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Force Over Persuasion
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Overkill … for Your Health
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Opportunity for … All?
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A Faulty Gun Report
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Snowden Won?
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1492: The oldest meteorite with a known date of impact struck a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.

1504: Christopher Columbus returned from his fourth and final voyage.

1775: John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, started the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by offering freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight on the British side during the Revolution.

1940: The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm a mere four months after completion.

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Hillary’s Accomplishments
“I’m a progressive who likes to get things done.” —Hillary Clinton Click …
More Common Sense from Tom Paine
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it …
Sartre: Equal Liberty
“I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of …