Minimum Wage, Maximum Politics - Common Sense with Paul Jacob

This Week in Common Sense for the final full week of July 2019. Paul focuses his review of the week on the Sanders/Tlaib minimum wage stories:

Initiative, Referendum and Recall (refresh for more)

A Private Party
Virginia delegate Beau Correll won’t cast his first ballot vote …
Should Non-Citizens Vote?
“A lot of people would like to say this is …
Solving a Problem
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Shanghaied in Tallahassee
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Preparation HH Hornswoggle
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Today in Freedom

On February 18, 1943, Hans and Sophie Scholl, a brother and sister, were arrested at the University of Munich for secretly (or not so secretly) putting out leaflets calling on Germans to revolt against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.

In the previous year Hans had founded a group of students, who called themselves “The White Rose.” The group wrote and distributed six leaflets aimed at educated Germans. The leaflets made their way across Germany and to several other occupied countries. The Allies later dropped them all over the Third Reich.

Memes (refresh for more)

Bernie’s Slippery Definition of Democratic Socialism
Bernie Sanders has always given a comically slippery definition of democratic socialism. For …
More of the More
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s triumphant entry into Washington, DC, as a United States …
Just Imagine
Imagine stealing everyone’s money and still being $36 trillion in debt.
All Those Egos, One Basket
In Tuesday night’s debate, Democrats put all their egos in …
Walter Bagehot
“It is good to be without vices, but it is …