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Relevance: 23% Posted on: March 5, 2014
Oh, how the other half lives! And lies. By “the other half,” I don’t mean “the wealthy.” They’re as honest and decent as any other group. No, I’m talking about those with their hands on the levers of government power . . . along with their subsidy-seeking cronies. Kevin Johnson,…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: October 18, 2023
The latest plan from one of the world’s most annoying billionaires is to cut down trees and bury them. It’s part of the “thinning” controversy. The subject? Forest management. In the old days, human beings cleared forests or kept forests and harvested from them (for firewood, fungi, and fauna) on…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: March 16, 2018
I love a good protest. My first was in Mrs. Grubb’s third grade class, after a substitute teacher gave us a ton of math homework. During recess we organized and delivered a written statement announcing a student strike against doing the math. Believe it or not, the assignment was withdrawn,…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: December 3, 2015
When some of America’s most illustrious public figures — Senator Bernie Sanders, President Barack Obama, and Bill Nye the Science Guy — proclaim global climate change as the “obvious” cause of the rise of ISIS (and recent rounds of terrorism), it’s time to consider: Is it climate change that is…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: April 25, 2022
“There exist many sneaky ways to get other people to do what you want, voluntarily — effectively blurring the line between legitimate persuasion and fraud.” I wrote that in a Common Sense squib entitled “The Online Manipulation of Democracy,” in which I discussed the work of Robert Epstein, a senior…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: December 17, 2021
If you live in Maine, you may now grow your own food. The right to do so has been safeguarded in the state constitution. If you have the right to life and to sustain your life, surely you have a right to farm. As we all know, though, governments regularly…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: November 29, 2015
This week, Common Sense looks at the insanity of “cultural appropriation.” Which has reached a new low point of crazed nincompoopery in Ontario. See Sunday’s column on Townhall.com, by Yours Truly, Paul Jacob. Then come back here for further forays into the realm of modern progressive ideology gone completely off…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: March 11, 2016
One lesson from the classic film, It’s a Wonderful Life, is that “Every man’s life touches so many others.” Every woman’s life does, too. On Monday, I was stunned and saddened to read in my morning paper that Cornell University President Elizabeth “Beth” Garrett had died, barely a month after…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: September 8, 2020
A recent email from Amy White of MoveOn.org — an activist outfit that got its start defending Bill Clinton’s sexual indiscretions — theorized that, this election, “the GOP strategy to win is to use their billionaire donors to flood battleground states with fearmongering, racist ads. . . .” The snuck-in assumption that Democrats…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: December 5, 2023
In July, a King Soopers employee, Santino Burrola, was fired for filming shoplifters. He even managed to get their license plate number; to do so, he had to peel off an aluminum-foil cover on the plate as the thieves began driving away. Burrola helped police quickly capture one of the…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: April 2, 2024
The only substantial challenger to the two parties, this presidential campaign season, has been Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The son of a presidential primary frontrunner in 1968, and nephew of the 35th President of the United States — both assassinated — has been an environmental litigator and vaccine skeptic for…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: March 14, 2016
What can we make of the leftist hatred of the Koch brothers, David and his elder brother Charles? For their support of libertarian and Tea Party causes, and a few Republican candidates, the left doesn’t just demonize them, the left singles them out. I suppose a reasonable person could blanch…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: March 6, 2017
What is the percentage of tenured faculty on American campuses who are still unambiguously on the side of free intellectual exchange? What is the percentage of them who are willing to express that position openly? Sociologist Charles Murray asked those questions near the end of his reflections on Thursday’s Middlebury…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: August 8, 2017
“I think that the most effective way one could possibly move toward greater freedom in the United States, toward a smaller role of government, would be if we could only have a more democratic society.” Who said that? A Democrat? No. The speaker quickly added, “I don’t mean a capital-D,…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: October 4, 2019
“Look,” tweeted Sen. Kamala Harris, “let’s be honest. . . .” When a politician talks about being honest — presumably “for a change” — it’s gonna be a doozy. President Trump’s “Twitter account should be suspended.” “What?” the reader will likely object, “Trump’s Twitter account is the second-best thing about…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: July 17, 2020
An Oregon case, People Not Politicians v. Secretary of State Clarno, was decided last week in favor of People Not Politicians, a group that has struggled obtaining signatures to qualify Initiative Petition 57 (IP 57) for the November 2020 ballot — while observing the governor’s stay-at-home orders. It is hard to…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: October 30, 2017
It seems exceedingly plausible that the longer one serves as a legislator, the better legislator one would become. Yet voters back home have noticed something: the longer in office, the less representative their so-called representative tends to become. No wonder that in those states where Americans have been permitted to…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: November 29, 2017
My idea of a “free market” is not our politicians’. Their idea is to give away free stuff to their new and old business buddies . . . at everyone else’s expense. That sort of “crony capitalism” has been writ large per Amazon’s search for a location for a second…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: May 10, 2017
“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” Is Afghanistan becoming the Hotel California? Back in 2014, Obama declared victory — well, he called it “over.” We even informed our enemies ahead of time that we were leaving, to show good manners. But as wars…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: January 22, 2024
The Canadian psychologist fighting for the right to opine without having to submit to “social media training” — reeducation — has lost a court battle. An Ontario court has dismissed Jordan Peterson’s appeal of a decision that had ruled in favor of the autocratic College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO).…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: March 15, 2023
I don’t gawk at car crashes. I did not watch the ISIS beheadings. Bloody slasher movies aren’t my thing. And neither was the recent hearing held by the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. It was so hard to watch I could hardly take more than a…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: November 8, 2022
The Bill of Rights was originally understood as curbing the power only of the federal government. This began to change with the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits states from depriving persons “of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Thanks to the “incorporation doctrine” interpretation of this amendment, provisions…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: March 2, 2014
The Sacramento stadium subsidy scandal, touched upon on Thursday, should be a bigger story in the news and with the commentariat. So click on over to Townhall, and share. Then come back here for some more reading: Sacramento Bee: Judge tosses out STOP arena lawsuit Merced Sun-Star: Why agribusinessman is…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: October 27, 2022
How to tell if you are part of the favored ruling class? If it is easy for you, but not most others, to obtain a concealed carry permit in your gun-controlling state. It’s extremely difficult to carry firearms for protection in states like Illinois, California, New Jersey and New York…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: December 28, 2011
Promises, promises. Politicians love to make ’em. But who has to fulfill those promises, and how? The tendency to rely upon political assurances without establishing workable, reasonable plans and follow-through has to be high on the irresponsibility list. Our politicians may promise us the stars, but what we wind up…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: December 19, 2022
With Twitter in the news, and revelation after revelation coming out about how governments and politicians used the social media giant to skew public opinion with algorithmic fiddling and outright bans, let’s not forget Facebook. Adam Schiff hasn’t. Last week, the Democrat Congressman from California, together with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: June 2, 2017
Freedom of speech isn’t a free pass to avoid the consequences of what one says. Or does. Tell that to three members of the Homer, Alaska, city council — Donna Aderhold, David Lewis and Catriona Reynolds — who are the subject of a recall petition. Well, a superior court judge…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: April 27, 2022
Two years into the pandemic, we in America are now mostly arguing about masks. We’ve suffered pretty repressive measures, here. But we haven’t had to cope with: ● Being literally imprisoned in your home. Stopped from going out even to get food. ● Having fences erected around your home. “What…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: July 21, 2023
In this increasingly complex technological world, what can our school systems do to help students excel in advanced math? Well, here’s a novel approach: “Cambridge Public Schools no longer offers advanced math in middle school,” The Boston Globe reports. Hmmm. Rather counterintuitive: Take access away from students. Silly me, helping…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: July 17, 2018
“Term limits,” said Daniel McCarthy, editor of The Modern Age, in a recent podcast conversation with historian Tom Woods, “was one of the dorkiest ideas of the 1994 so-called Newt Gingrich revolution.” He characterized it as not having really gone anywhere. Huh? Granted, Congress is still not term-limited. But Americans…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: April 12, 2018
In 2013, Tacoma Park, Maryland, became the first place in the U.S. to allow 16-year-olds to vote in local elections.* Now, Washington, D.C., Councilman Charles Allen, “inspired by the high-schoolers who are campaigning for gun control and filled D.C. streets last month in a massive protest that mesmerized the country,”…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: May 26, 2021
In just weeks, the Pentagon will report to Congress on the matter of UFOs. Though the subject appears vast, beginning before World War II’s “foo fighters” and extending right up to Colorado’s ongoing (?) “drone” mystery, the impetus for much of the recent interest comes from one source: a declassified…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: February 26, 2021
Saturday is Term Limits Day. Boy, this holiday season really sneaked up on me. No excuse, though, because Term Limits Day falls on February 27th every year. On that date in 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, limiting the president to two terms in office. Call it…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: January 27, 2024
Government agencies that “fight crime” too often engage in criminal behavior to do so. In June of 2021, Common Sense with Paul Jacob reported on an FBI operation that raided safe deposit boxes. In March, the federal government conducted a raid of a safe deposit box company called U.S. Privacy…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: February 20, 2017
People have a right to defend themselves. Right? Especially against rape and murder. “This is not about free speech,” Yvette Felarca yelled to the crowd at the University of California-Berkeley, gathered weeks ago to “shut down” a scheduled speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, the controversial Breitbart editor. Felarca, a national organizer…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: January 23, 2017
Last year, Americans — everywhere from Montgomery County, Maryland, bordering the nation’s capital on the east coast, to sunny Santa Clara, California, on the west coast — voted to impose term limits on their elected officials. There were 40 separate local votes to enact term limits or, conversely, measures put…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: April 3, 2019
Reid Wilson’s very welcome reporting in The Hill, recently, was headlined, “GOP legislators clamping down on voter initiatives.” This disrespect for the people and their basic, democratic check on legislative power is far too common, and something about which people need to know. For instance, ballot measures in Florida already…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: March 9, 2020
In The Graduate (1967), the young man played by Dustin Hoffman gets advice from an elder. “Just one word: plastics.” “Exactly how do you mean, sir?” “There’s a great future in plastics.” When the world bans all plastic in 2021, that will be the end of that market opportunity. Other…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: July 18, 2022
Criminal courts provide an old kind of justice, where individuals’ specific acts are judged and individuals, if found guilty, are punished. “Social justice” is something else again — a daring, socialistic attempt to correct for all the ills “of society” or, more widely, “the cosmos.” That’s a huge agenda to…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: October 13, 2021
“Southwest Airlines crews are walking out and so are FAA air traffic controllers,” Buzz Patterson tweeted on Sunday. “This is just the beginning.” Buzz’s running for a House seat in California’s Seventh District. But I saw the tweet as quoted on Facebook by Erin Leigh, who wrote “Exactly what needs…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: February 1, 2023
You must place explosives a certain way when demolishing a building to avoid damaging surrounding structures. But if you just want to destroy, you can forget about such precautions. Could this be the perspective of those demanding national rent control? They forget — or ignore — the destruction of living…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: November 26, 2011
Nothing speaks to the out-of-control nature of government more loudly and clearly than the lavish pension benefits promised to public employees. The extravagance centers on their underfunded nature: The pensions’ benefits are defined — defined high — and underfunded or even unfunded as the employment occurs, leaving many states, metro…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: April 22, 2020
Has dissent about pandemic policy been outlawed? I mean, “for the duration”? Well, no. The Internet displays every possible view of policy and epidemiology, expressed with every possible degree of temperateness or intemperateness. Yet we are indeed seeing signs of indifference to freedom of speech even when that speech cannot…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: July 9, 2021
From the people who brought you “Defund the Police,” prepare yourself for . . . “Throw Billions at the Police!” “The Capitol Police on Monday announced a multi-pronged plan to expand its operations,” journalist Glenn Greenwald informs, highlighting that “the force intends for the first time to create a permanent…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: February 3, 2017
“The Free Speech Movement is dead.” So said the Berkeley College Republicans after violence Wednesday night forced cancelation of a sold-out speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, the Greek-born British author, now a senior editor at Breitbart News. The reference, of course, is to the University of California’s history as a haven…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: December 26, 2018
Students and faculty at the University of Southern California are upset because a popular dean of the Marshall School of Business, James Ellis, has been fired by interim USC President Wanda Austin. Hundreds have rallied in protest and petitioned for his reinstatement. Why the ouster? The administration has offered a…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: December 9, 2019
In ten days, the Democratic Party will hold a presidential debate that, according to the rules established by the Democratic National Committee, includes six qualified candidates all of whom are white. Which is apparently not the right color. “Of course, there is nothing wrong with Democrats selecting a white presidential…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: January 2, 2019
“Negotiations are impossible without trust,” wrote Leon Panetta in a Washington Post op-ed. What with all his experience, Mr. Panetta has some reason to be trusted on his chosen subject, government shutdowns. The California Democrat spent 16 years in the Congress before joining the Clinton Administration as Director of the…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: April 15, 2019
Politicians often dare . . . too much. But what did Rep. Ted Lieu dare to be last week? Candace Owens’ appearance before the House Committee on the Judiciary caused quite a stir. The subject was hate crimes and white nationalism, and she offered a wider perspective: “We’re not talking…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: October 8, 2019
Sen. Kamala Harris successfully bears aloft the banner of Barack Obama. As “a person of color”? Yeah, sure — but mainly by pandering to ignorant ideologues. “Look, women are still not paid equal for equal work in America,” she said recently at a campaign stop. The Daily Wire notes that…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: April 2, 2016
Is this a great country or what? Oh, sure, as Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump puts it, “We are led by very, very stupid people,” but still — the ingenuity of the populace shines through. Sometimes the inhabitants of America find a path around their political potholes. Case in…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: June 23, 2023
The day following Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s “successful” visit to China, wherein the Chinese rulers agreed to start talking to U.S. officials again — well, except on trivial military-to-military stuff like the PLA playing chicken with our fighter jets and naval ships in international waters — President Joe Biden…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: November 9, 2017
“When do we say enough is enough?” asked California Senator Kamala Harris after Devon Patrick Kelley murdered 26 churchgoing Texans in cold blood, last Sunday. “The terrifying fact is that no one is safe so long as Congress chooses to do absolutely nothing in the face of this epidemic,” argued…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: November 30, 2020
“One can squint and see ballot measures as a kind of super-survey of the electorate, with much larger samples and actual stakes,” wrote Sasha Issenberg over the weekend in The Washington Post. “The results then can be interpreted as a pure representation of voter preferences on discrete issues, without the…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: October 15, 2021
Over the weekend, I said goodbye to two friends: Ronn Neff and Mike Gravel. Ronald Nelson Neff passed away September 26th, at age 72, after “a prolonged illness,” wrote his longtime friend, Tom McPherson, at The Last Ditch, a libertarian/anarchist newsletter the two co-founded. Neff, a well-respected editor of numerous…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: June 10, 2022
Decades of wrongheaded policies have eroded San Francisco’s once much-vaunted charm. These policies include onerous burdens on building construction; lax attitudes toward homeless folks’ tent cities and public excretory practices; and a green light for sundry criminal activities, including broad-daylight theft. The green light flashed statewide in 2014, when Californians…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: October 31, 2022
Last Friday, at 2:30-ish in the morning, a man allegedly broke into Paul and Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and attacked 82-year-old Paul Pelosi with a hammer.* The attack fractured Mr. Pelosi’s skull, forcing emergency surgery, but fortunately he’s expected to make a full recovery. Police have arrested David DePape…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: May 22, 2019
Democratic presidential contender and U.S. Senator from California Kamala Harris leaned in to the big lie. Debuting a new proposal to “close the gender pay gap,” she declared that, “In America today, women for the same work, for the equal work, on average make 80 cents on the dollar, black…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: January 28, 2022
In last week’s news conference, President Biden seemed to wave a green light to Vladimir Putin: Russian military forces may make a “minor incursion” into neighboring Ukraine. Was Biden applying to diplomacy, I wondered, the permissive posture so many other Democratic officials have taken, domestically? Crime’s fine, if small enough. …
Relevance: 18% Posted on: May 6, 2019
Late Friday, in the closing hours of Florida’s legislative session, an amendment “was thrown onto the lifeboat of a different, unrelated bill in a last-ditch effort,” reported the Miami Herald, “to limit citizen-driven ballot initiatives.” With poisonous provisions appended, House Bill 5 rushed through both chambers in mere hours with…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: February 26, 2020
Back in 2016, this commentary was perhaps the first howl in the political wilderness against the unfairness of the Democratic Party’s use of “superdelegates” — office holders and party officials who by party rules automatically serve as unelected but voting delegates at the national convention . . . which chooses…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: August 2, 2019
Yesterday I referenced “pigs flying” . . . and Icarus’s waxed-wing fail. Today, it’s just about the muck. Now, I am on the road and definitely not catching every word of the Democratic debates. But amidst much nonsense and embarrassment — and there was a lot of it, from what…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: April 13, 2020
Right after 9/11, much overkill was directed at the unsuspecting. Friends of the Dumb Joke Brigade told dumb jokes when everybody was On Edge. It soon became clear that tasteless jocularity had morphed into an actionable offense. And should anyone on September 12 have had the temerity to sit in…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: June 4, 2019
Why did term limits spring up in the 1990s? Term limitation has a long history in America, of course — and all the way back to Aristotle — but why the resurgence? I remember opponents suggesting that Americans were frustrated with slow economic growth. Not likely. In “Restoring Faith in…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: October 11, 2019
“I’ve already deleted my Blizzard account,” offered the young man while taking my Starbucks order. Blizzard Entertainment is a video game developer based in Irvine, California. Earlier this week, the company rescinded the Grandmasters tournament winnings of Hearthstone esports player Ng Wai Chung, whose professional name is “Blitzchung,” banning him…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: November 18, 2014
Justice is blind, or so it attempts to be. Sometimes justice is deaf and dumb, too. The people of Ferguson, Missouri, await — along with the rest of the nation — the imminent announcement from the local grand jury, either a decision to indict police officer Darren Wilson for the…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: March 31, 2015
Which is worse, paying for stuff you use . . . or being constantly harassed for using it? There is talk of drought, these days, in several states of our union. And governments, local and state, are becoming draconian. Further, the moralistic crowd is out, telling us to conserve water as if it…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: September 2, 2014
Listen to the experts. Challenge yourself to understand that looting isn’t bad, and shouldn’t be viewed as a violation of the rights of an innocent person or persons or a frontal assault on the essence of civilization itself. No, looting and rioting are important human expressions for change that should…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: February 10, 2015
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama gave cautious support for the anti-vaxxer cause a few years ago. While running for the presidency in 2008, Obama called the alleged link between autism and vaccination scientifically “inconclusive.” In the same year, Mrs. Clinton went further, expressing her support for an official study to…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: March 6, 2018
by Paul Jacob While the Supreme Court heard oral argument, last week, in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the court of public opinion focused not so much on the constitutionality of the law in question, i.e. justice, but instead on the partisan impact of…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: February 26, 2014
New York State is deeply blue. That’s the color mapmakers use to show Democratic control. That’s also the state the state’s economy is in, depressed by those same Democrats’ policies. So, to lighten the mood, Governor Andrew Cuomo is splurging $140 million tax dollars for TV ads that sing the…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: January 21, 2019
The 3rd annual Woman’s March strolled by over the weekend — a tiny fraction of its former self. Two years ago, close to a million protesters converged on Washington, D.C., while this year’s event “appeared to attract only thousands,” The Washington Post reported, “mirroring lower turnout at marches . .…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: September 8, 2018
Paul Jacob In the fourth season of Showtime’s Weeds, drug smugglers use a tunnel connecting border towns in California and Mexico, with the American side of the tunnel opening up under a maternity shop. Yet when a drug-smuggling tunnel was found, last month, connecting a defunct Arizona KFC to a…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: December 8, 2015
Will the government soon quarter troops in your home? The Third Amendment prohibits that, sure — but if prominent and powerful Democrats are so anxious to toss out the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution, who’s to say they wouldn’t jettison the Third? Last year, every Democratic U.S. Senator…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: May 31, 2016
It’s been an unusual election year, and it’s far from over. This weekend, the Libertarian Party is holding its presidential nominating convention in Orlando, Florida, close to Disney World — or close to a Veterans Administration hospital . . . they’re so difficult to tell apart. Both have long lines.…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: April 4, 2013
Shall we use reason in debating and deciding our laws? Or better to employ only our emotion? According to much of Washington officialdom (and media) the answer is: emotion. “I want to make sure every American is listening today,” President Barack Obama said last week, reminding his audience of the…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: April 10, 2018
Paul Jacob The Washington Post headline is crystal clear: “Implicit racial bias causes black boys to be disciplined at school more than whites, federal report finds.” That sure sounds like a serious problem. Another problem? The headline isn’t quite accurate. The government-town newspaper is “informing” readers about a recent Government…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: September 27, 2012
In 42 days, there’s an election to determine who will wield executive power in the world’s most powerful nation. Ours. Lots of power is on the line. And with power comes fear. And with fear being such a powerful motivator, the polls will no doubt be crowded. Unfortunately, fear-based voting…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: May 2, 2018
Paul Jacob Amanda Gailey, Patricia Hill and Catherine Koebel are not just your average anti-gun nuts. They are college professors who are anti-gun nuts. Gailey and Hill teach at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln — Gailey an associate professor of English and Hill a research assistant professor of sociology. Catherine Koebel…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: April 17, 2018
Paul Jacob Tacoma Park, Maryland, became the first place in the U.S. to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in local elections. That was in 2013. Since then, two other Maryland towns have followed suit, while in Berkeley, California, the voting age was lowered to 16, if only for school…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: June 20, 2013
James “Whitey” Bulger adamantly denies two of the 19 murders he’s accused of committing and for which he’s now on trial in a Boston federal court, along with facing a dozen lesser charges. Decades ago, the 83-year old reputed mobster allegedly ran much of the city’s organized crime. Whitey may…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: February 16, 2019
Can we blame U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), really? Being ambitious and bold are not usually considered bad things. And her most ambitious, boldest proposal is not exactly without precedent. A decade of quantitative easing, along with trillion-dollar annual deficits run up recently by congressional Republicans, have laid the debt-ridden tracks…
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Two big stories: two judges in different cases — one went one way, the other got it right. Paul discusses: https://youtu.be/x9KVYeLn_Kc
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President Obama and other politicians are taking a wide stance over the nation’s public restrooms. Important bathroom policy will finally be determined at the highest levels. In early May, public school educators nationwide received a legalistically-worded joint letter from the Departments of Justice and Education explaining how to legally treat…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: December 15, 2021
Relevance: 13% Posted on: June 2, 2012
CAUTION: A carefully concocted measure designed to fool the voters. Pass this on. It is important. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruTn1kkvv6Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Relevance: 13% Posted on: March 27, 2018
Paul Jacob Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of Americans, many of them young students, demonstrated against “gun-violence” by participating in the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., and around the country. Not me. I stayed home and wrote this column, instead. And not to disparage the efforts of all those…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: November 10, 2018
Paul Jacob What can one person do? I wish Jack Gargan were here to answer that question — I can almost hear his characteristic chuckle, see the glint in his Irish eyes, in preparation for his answer. But sadly, Jack passed away last week in Thailand, where he had retired.…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: April 13, 2014
In strategy meetings through the years, I’ve often heard conservative and Republican operatives complain, “If the mainstream media would only cover the issue fairly . . .” My advice? Don’t hold your breath. In lively discussions with friends from across the political spectrum, including a journalist or two, I’ve debated…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: November 26, 2009
Paul Jacob says “Thank You” What a difference a year makes. As I sit down to my Thanksgiving Day feast, that's what I'm thinking. And I certainly know I have a whole lot to be thankful for. Let me start by thanking you. For caring about freedom and justice. For…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: November 3, 2018
Welcome, Townhall readers: for more links, go to our splash page for this column. Paul Jacob Our upcoming biennial exercise of democracy is not just a matter of choosing between the crooked liar and the racist thief. Aside from filling any number of federal, state and local offices, there will…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: June 7, 2018
Paul Jacob Last week’s most consequential story was not covered by a single television network or cable outlet. Nor was it discussed on talk radio. The major newspapers took no note of it, and not a single voice in the universe of blogs and news sites on the worldwide web…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: April 9, 2012
When you hear the word “unprecedented,” reach for your . . . dictionary. But when you hear someone say we should be “petrified” of “democracy,” what do you reach for, then? Early last week, President Barack Obama railed against the Supreme Court and the possibility that it might overturn the…
Relevance: 10% Posted on: October 1, 2014
I’m a republican. You’re a republican. It used to be that most Democrats were also republicans. Today, I’m not even sure that most Republicans are republicans. But I’m hoping you are, whether you vote R or D or something else. Or don’t vote at all. This is not an essay…
Relevance: 10% Posted on: December 22, 2018
Priscillia Ludosky Paul Jacob Welcome, Townhall readers! We live in near-revolutionary times. And in France, protest has become interesting, as it is normal working people who are in revolt.The column is at Townhall, yes, but the links below point in other directions. Towards France, of course, but also . .…
Relevance: 10% Posted on: May 9, 2015
U. S. Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont “independent” who caucuses with the Democrats and calls himself a “democratic socialist,” announced this week that he is seeking the Democratic Socialist Party’s nomination — er, I mean the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. One of the Vermonter’s most visceral claims to left-wing…
Relevance: 9% Posted on: March 16, 2023
. . . recently published on this site. . . . Date (links to PDFs) — Title (links to articles) — Topic: May 7 — The Great Weed Fake-Out — Paul Jacob observes that Biden’s done almost nothing to end cannabis prohibition on the federal level May 6 — Inflation…