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Relevance: 8% Posted on: July 21, 2015
Sometimes the good guys win . . . but only when they stand up to the bad guys. Nowhere is this more true than in politics, especially with the increasingly vicious partisan attempts to criminalize opposition. On a fall day back in 2012, before dawn, SWAT-styled police with battering rams raided the private…
Relevance: 7% Posted on: May 25, 2004
Paul Jacob Mention initiative, referendum, and recall to political insiders and you'll hear a one-word rebuttal: California! California politics is almost universally portrayed as, well, a little loony. California stands out from other states of the union, of course, for a host of reasons, from the sheer size and diversity…
Relevance: 7% Posted on: April 28, 2015
The United States of America is a republic, of course. Not a democracy. Yet, it is through democracy — that is, via democratic means — that we maintain the Republic and thus, maintain the bulwark protecting our freedom as individuals. Or not. “We the People” elect our representatives at the…
Relevance: 6% Posted on: March 5, 2010
Tomorrow, I turn 50. Time flies when you’re having fun. For the last 30-plus years — my entire adult life — I’ve worked in politics. That might not seem like much fun. Politics is a constant struggle, a slog. But working for freedom — in one crusade or another —…
Relevance: 6% Posted on: January 3, 2017
Yes, the U.N. does some good things. But the assumption that, if the United Nations didn’t exist, those good things wouldn’t get done is ridiculous. It’s like saying that if government didn’t pick up your garbage, garbage would never get collected. Meanwhile, the U.N. does all manner of terrible things,…
Relevance: 4% Posted on: March 6, 2020
Time sure flies when you’re having fun. Today is my birthday. I am 60, and thus begin my 61st year on this planet. For the last four decades — my entire adult life — I’ve worked in politics. That might not seem like much fun. Politics is a constant struggle,…
Relevance: 3% Posted on: March 16, 2023
. . . recently published on this site. . . . Date (links to PDFs) — Title (links to articles) — Topic: May 15 — Library Against Liberty — Paul Jacob on censorship, local-government-style. May 14 — A Done Decision — Paul Jacob hazards a guess about a court’s conclusion.…
Relevance: 3% Posted on: January 9, 2015
Thomas Paine, soon after he arrived in America from Britain, wrote and published one of the most influential political pamphlets in human history — certainly the most influential in America. This polemic, “Common Sense,” was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, and quickly became the most widely read and…
Relevance: 2% Posted on: February 21, 2012
The Six Pamphlets of “The White Rose” Students: Printable PDF of the Six Pamphlets of the "White Rose" Students The White Rose was a close-knit group of friends in Munich, Germany, during the reign of the Nazi Third Reich. Anonymously, under the name “The White Rose,” they wrote and distributed…