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Rocky Mountain Low
SharingIn the closing days of this year’s legislative session, Colorado …
Division and Democracy
SharingRecalls of elected officials are said to be “divisive.” And, …
Red-lining Democracy
SharingWhy does a fellow who’s the executive director of the Greenlining …
My Favorite Control Group
SharingTim Eyman strikes again. In deep blue Washington State, the ballot …
Golden State Standards
SharingIn their just completed session, California legislators expressed deep concern …

Lost Justice, Long Island
November 15, 2024
Paul Jacob finds a sliver of a silver lining in …Read More »
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 »

How Not to Fix a Failed State
Sharing“As long as unions and business buy our politicians and …
Green Politicians and Ham
SharingDear Reader: This “BEST of Common Sense” comment originally aired …
Helter Keller
SharingIn 2000, Florida Congressman Ric Keller was just Citizen Keller, …
Old Dominions
SharingA photo, found on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s 1984 medical …
Seven Hundred Terms in a Row?
SharingYa gotta love Lou Lang. Any public servant who can …

Pulling It Off
SharingGive democratic socialism a chance? So says Dr. Cornel West, the …
Abolishing You
SharingIn a recent Washington Post essay — “Is the individual obsolete?” — syndicated columnist George …
Snowden Won?
Sharing“The phone records program” that Edward Snowden risked life, limb …
Are You Truly Free?
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Who Benefits From Our Fears?
Sharing“Think of the children!” I have daughters. And neighbors, nephews, nieces, …

ἔστιν ἄρα ἡ ἀρετὴ ἕξις προαιρετική, ἐν μεσότητι οὖσα τῇ πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ὡρισμένῃ λόγῳ καὶ ᾧ ἂν ὁ φρόνιμος ὁρίσειεν. μεσότης δὲ δύο κακιῶν, τῆς μὲν καθ᾽ ὑπερβολὴν τῆς δὲ κατ᾽ ἔλλειψιν:

Virtue then is a settled disposition of the mind as regards the choice of actions and feelings, consisting essentially in the observance of the mean relative to us, this being determined by principle, that is, as the prudent man would determine it. And it is a mean state between two vices, one of excess and one of defect.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, translated by Harris Rackham. The illustration of the philosopher is a line engraving by P. Fidanza after Raphael Sanzio.

— Aristotle