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Relevance: 15% Posted on: December 25, 2017
In addition to the religious significance of Christmas, Americans share an excellent historical reason to celebrate this day. In January of 1776, Thomas Paine published his smash hit, “Common Sense.” This pamphlet galvanized public opinion in favor of the American Revolution, which had begun the previous year at Lexington and…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: December 26, 2023
“Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace.” — Patrick Henry The 2023 Chicago Council Survey shows 58 percent of us view China as “a critical threat” and a “plurality of Americans (46%) say that US leaders are not paying enough attention to the issue of US competition…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: April 24, 2023
Back in 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton informed a Fox News audience that “just a few miles away from that food market [initially proposed as the epicenter of the outbreak] is China’s only biosafety level 4 super laboratory that researches human infectious diseases.”…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: March 31, 2023
“No one thinks it’s a coincidence,” says Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. “Everyone thinks this was done for intimidation reasons.” The “this” was a visit by the Internal Revenue Service to the home of journalist Matt Taibbi while he was…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: October 23, 2015
Congo-Brazzaville’s president, Denis Sassou Nguesso, is quite the statesman. He’s actually done what many an illustrious American pol with an obsession about “campaign finance” would merely like to do, but cannot (that darn First Amendment!): prohibited all talk about politics prior to the next election. Indeed, the government has shut…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: June 9, 2017
Housing in Oregon’s north-central urban region is becoming more and more like San Francisco’s — out of the budgetary reach of huge swaths of average workers. “The median rental household can’t comfortably afford a two-bedroom apartment in 28 of Oregon’s 36 counties,” Elliot Njus writes for The Oregonian. But it is worst in…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: June 23, 2015
The Missouri General Assembly adjourned its 2015 legislative session about a month ago, “having passed,” The Washington Post reported, “virtually none of the changes activists sought in the aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown.” “Nothing has changed,” acknowledged State Rep. Clem Smith. The Post story concluded, “Advocates plan to…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: July 31, 2015
I wish Annette Bosworth were my doctor. Since she lives and practices medicine more than1300 miles away, in South Dakota, that’s not to be. Sadly, the question to be answered, officially, is whether Dr. Bosworth will be permitted to provide medical care to anyone in her state. Following convictions on…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: November 17, 2015
“I want to go home,” Arkansas State Senator Jon Woods whimpered last weekend. The poor, pitiful politician — announcing he would not seek election to another legislative term — cried that he had not “been fishing with [his] brother in a year.” “I have friends in my district who I…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: April 28, 2013
So, what country are we living in, today? Well, it's explicable, if absurd — explicable in terms of the old "Cui bono" idea, of incentives and disincentives; absurd because of . . . well, click on over to Townhall.com, read this weekend's Common Sense column, and see. Then come back…