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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…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: September 26, 2015
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Relevance: 14% Posted on: September 12, 2021
Two big stories: two judges in different cases — one went one way, the other got it right. Paul discusses: https://youtu.be/x9KVYeLn_Kc
Relevance: 14% Posted on: January 5, 2019
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Relevance: 14% Posted on: May 24, 2016
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: 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
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