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This Week in Common Sense, February 10 — 14, 2020.

Another Trout in the Milk
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Adios, California?
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A Deafening Disquiet
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Legislators, Tramps and Thieves
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Lie, Cheat AND Steal
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Measures for Measures
November 23, 2024
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Denial Is a River in Argentina?
November 22, 2024
Paul Jacob on one country’s retreat from self-imposed poverty.Read More »
Watch Out!
November 21, 2024
Paul Jacob on strange edits in the Lone Star State.Read More »
The Hill as Hallucinogen
November 19, 2024
Paul Jacob on a false news story, gone but not …Read More »
Elon & Vivek to Cut Government?
November 18, 2024
Paul Jacob on who could help whom do what is …Read More »

Minnesota Common Sense
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Grand Rapids’ Grand Alliance
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Keystone Correlation
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Adults for America
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Term Limits Now
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Dousing the Dumpster Fire
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My Privilege Isn’t White
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Socialism’s Idealistic Youth
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The Whys Behind the Whats
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Spoiler Season
Sharing“Libertarians poll high enough to tip key races,” informs The …

On November 23, 1644, British poet John Milton published Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.

Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
John Milton, Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England (1644).

The name “Areopagitica” references a speech by Isocrates, the “Areopagitikós” that itself referenced a hill in Athens, Greece, the Areopagus, which had been the site of an important tribunal that the Greek orator had hoped to restore. It may also refer to the defense that St. Paul made before the Areopagus against charges of promulgating alien gods and outré teachings (see Acts 17:18 – 34).