James Baldwin - Common Sense with Paul Jacob

James Baldwin

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name (1961).

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Term Limits (refresh for more)

Cheaters Never Prosper
“I want to go home,” Arkansas State Senator Jon Woods whimpered. …
Starting Somewhere With Term Limits
To be effective in reversing the big-government tide, the new …
Your Victory
Tuesday’s mid-term elections amount to another watershed moment in American …
Graceless Memphis Politicians
“We could care less about instant runoff voting,” fibbed Allan …
Big Bucks to Promote Term Limits
Maybe you’re like me — you’d gladly ballyhoo term limits even if …

Thought of the Day

Men are the dominant sign-using animals. Animals other than man do, of course, respond to certain things as signs of something else, but such signs do not attain the complexity and elaboration which is found in human speech, writing, art, testing devices, medical diagnosis, and signaling instruments. Science and signs are inseparably interconnected, since science both presents men with more reliable signs and embodies its results in systems of signs. Human civilization is dependent upon signs and systems of signs, and the human mind is inseparable from the functioning of signs — if indeed mentality is not to be identified with such functioning.
Charles W. Morris, “Foundations of the Theory of Signs,” in International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, Vol. 1, No. 2; Reprinted 1971.

— Charles W. Morris

Memes (refresh for more)

Courage and Wisdom?
President Donald Trump responded to the weekend’s two shooting atrocities …
“Populism” and Leader Worship
Red Flag! When leader worship is called a “people’s movement.” It …
Mega-state vs. Corporate Power
Building a mega-state to fight corporate power… …is like giving yourself AIDS …
Warren and the Bogeyman State
“…the bogeyman government is like the bogeyman under the bed. …
Government Flow Chart
Government incentives and market incentives are quite different. This explains …

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