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Relevance: 100% Posted on: March 14, 2008
It's nice to have friends in high places. Or to sit on high yourself - way up above the law. Or so Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson must think, as he chirps from his high perch. Last year, State Representative Mike Reynolds detailed publicly that Attorney General Edmondson had violated…
Relevance: 94% Posted on: May 20, 2008
Oklahoma State Senator Randy Brogdon is disappointed by the most recent objectionable conduct of his state's attorney general. The AG, Drew Edmondson, publicly opposes a bill to term-limit the offices of state officials, including his. The proposal would impose a twelve-year maximum. Mild as far as term limits go, but…
Relevance: 92% Posted on: April 28, 2008
A Daily Oklahoman editorial laments the killing of a bill that would have created a task force to study the state's initiative process, writing, "The initiative petition process in Oklahoma is in need of a fix." That's why Representative Randy Terrill sponsored the bill. Which passed the House 86 yays…
Relevance: 79% Posted on: February 13, 2008
You can't answer every random fallacy uttered by fierce foes of facts and logic. Can't always ignore them either. Like, when your polemical adversary is trying to jail you for ten years. I refer to Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson, who indicted me and two others for abetting democracy in…
Relevance: 79% Posted on: July 29, 2010
Many is the time I’ve compared various politicians to The Wizard of Oz’s man behind the curtain. They’re not bad men; they’re just not very good wizards. But today brings a different connection to Oz: I can’t get the song, “Ding-dong, the Witch Is Dead!” out of my head. Tuesday,…
Relevance: 77% Posted on: January 21, 2008
Last October, two colleagues and I were indicted by Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson. Our crime? Helping a petition drive to limit the growth of government spending. Supposedly, we three willfully violated an arbitrary residency requirement for signature gatherers. As I've explained at the freepauljacob.com website, we acted in good…
Relevance: 75% Posted on: November 17, 2008
I’m beginning to feel sorry for Oklahoma. That may seem a little strange to regular readers. They know that Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson is prosecuting me, along with two other activists, for work on a 2005 petition drive to cap state spending. He’s trying to throw us in prison…
Relevance: 73% Posted on: June 4, 2008
Here's another interesting court decision in Oklahoma. Oh, this time it's not a petition with hundreds of thousands of voter signatures being tossed out. And no, it's not quite as crazy as that ruling allowing a man to photograph up the skirts of girls at the mall. This time Oklahoma's…
Relevance: 69% Posted on: April 3, 2023
If it can happen to former President Donald Trump — something like the politically motivated ham-sandwich indictment issuing from an avid Trump-hating Democratic DA — can it happen to you and me? It already happened to me. Fifteen years ago. Handcuffs and leg-irons. Paul Jacob, Rick Carpenter, Susan Johnson. The…
Relevance: 67% Posted on: July 23, 2008
The political establishment resists reform. Voters have had to take their favorite causes - like term limits and tax limits - over the heads of politicians, directly to fellow voters. And politicians don't much like us voters having all that say-so. That's why they've tried to legislate the initiative process…
Relevance: 67% Posted on: October 29, 2018
Former Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson is running for governor. Again. You may recall, as I certainly do, that Mr. Edmondson prosecuted — more like persecuted — me and two others involved in a 2005 petition drive. He charged us with “conspiracy to defraud the state,” a felony carrying a…
Relevance: 65% Posted on: May 20, 2015
“It should be up to each bar owner and patron to decide if they want to smoke or not.” Drew Carey served as initial video host of ReasonTV, helping debut the online freedom-oriented service in 2007.
Relevance: 61% Posted on: December 4, 2008
The wheels of injustice creak along slowly. Indicted in October last year, the Oklahoma Three — Rick Carpenter, Susan Johnson, and I — have still not had a full preliminary hearing. That first step has now been pushed back to next February. Our alleged crime? Oklahoma’s Attorney General, Drew Edmondson,…
Relevance: 57% Posted on: May 1, 2009
Receiving an award is a lot nicer than ten years in prison. As regular listeners know, Rick Carpenter, Susan Johnson, and I were indicted by Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson on trumped-up, politically-motivated charges stemming from a petition drive to cap state government spending. For almost two years this indictment…
Relevance: 49% Posted on: January 26, 2009
It seemed hardly necessary. The handcuffs and leg-irons, I mean. I wasn’t a threat to anybody. Neither were Rick Carpenter and Susan Johnson. We had been charged with “conspiracy to defraud the state of Oklahoma” for our work to put a spending cap on the ballot. The metal constraints were…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: July 8, 2008
A leading indicator of a free nation? The lack of political prisoners. We Americans are aghast when we learn of dissenters jailed in other countries. But, even in America, politicians in various states seek to put people in jail for engaging in legitimate (if dissenting) political activism. I am one…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: February 18, 2009
This year has brought good news for freedom and democracy in Oklahoma. Last month, the state’s attorney general, Drew Edmondson, dropped his appeal of a federal court decision, which had overturned part of Oklahoma’s petition law. The AG also dismissed all charges against the Oklahoma Three — Rick Carpenter, Susan…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: January 5, 2009
The name. The hair. The gall. Illinois Governor Rod Blogojevich is getting lots of attention. However, the governor’s favor-trading is unique only in blatancy. The longer politicians hold power, the more readily they regard pay-to-play corruption as acceptable, profitable. Which is one reason I advocate initiative rights, term limits, mandatory…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: May 19, 2009
Change is funny. Sometimes it seems like change will never come. Then, all of the sudden, it’s here. For years, I’ve been hoping for some changes in Oklahoma politics. That’s because the state’s voter initiative process was blocked. It’s also because, as regular readers know, the state’s Attorney General Drew…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: February 20, 2008
My new favorite comedian is Drew Carey. Not that Carey is funnier than, say, Don Knotts . . . or explanations of the national debt. I just like what Carey’s doing lately — helping turn local stories about political lunacy into national stories. Carey is working with reason.tv, spinoff of…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: May 23, 2016
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: * 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela. * 1900: Sergeant William Harvey Carney became…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: May 23, 2017
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: * 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela. * 1900: Sergeant William Harvey Carney became…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: May 23, 2018
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: * 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela. * 1900: Sergeant William Harvey Carney became…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: September 5, 2023
While Reason drew the plan, the Heart inform’dThe moral page and Fancy lent it grace. James Thomson (1700–1748), Liberty ( (1734) Pt. IV, L. 262.
Relevance: 35% Posted on: March 6, 2014
I like the Fifth Amendment. I took it myself in 2007 when Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson was witch-hunting with his grand jury. My attorney advised that I had more to fear from innocently misstating something and being vindictively charged with perjury than from the ridiculous indictments the AG would…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: December 9, 2016
I know Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s pick to head the EPA; he replaced the egregious Drew Edmondson as Oklahoma Attorney General. Pruitt seems like a good man. But Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) says different. “Mr. Pruitt’s record is not only that of being a climate change denier, but also .…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: October 6, 2023
Those animals which are incapable of making covenants with one another, to the end that they may neither inflict nor suffer harm, are without either justice or injustice. And those tribes which either could not or would not form mutual covenants to the same end are in like case. Epicurus, Principal Doctrines (Robert Drew…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: May 23, 2020
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: * 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela. * 1900: Sergeant William Harvey Carney became…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: May 23, 2014
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: * 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator"), leading the invasion of Venezuela. * 1900: Sergeant William Harvey Carney became…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: August 25, 2009
Dear Reader: This “BEST of Common Sense” comment originally aired on September 20, 2007. The growing use of zero-tolerance policies — especially having anything to do with guns — is the opposite of common sense. Mass insanity may be more popular these days, but I still prefer common sense. —PJ…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 23, 2021
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: * 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela. * 1900: Sergeant William Harvey Carney became…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 23, 2022
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: * 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela. * 1900: Sergeant William Harvey Carney became…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 23, 2019
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela.1900: Sergeant William Harvey Carney became the first African…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: October 27, 2010
Regular readers know that I’ve had my share of troubles in Oklahoma, where a politically-motivated Attorney General abused his office years ago to threaten myself and other initiative petitioners. Thankfully, we won that battle. Now, with a critical election nearly upon us, there’s a different problem in Oklahoma. Put another…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 23, 2023
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: * 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar (portrait, above) entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela. * 1900: Sergeant William Harvey…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 29, 2023
Where without any change in circumstances the things held to be just by law are seen not to correspond with the concept of justice in actual practice, such laws are not really just; but wherever the laws have ceased to be advantageous because of a change in circumstances, in that…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: May 25, 2014
On May 25, 1810, citizens of Buenos Aires expelled Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros starting the Argentine War of Independence. On May 25, 1925, John T. Scopes was indicted for violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school. The Scopes Trial — formally…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: October 17, 2001
I'm a loving guy. But some things just make me mad, I'm sorry. Jefferson Middle School in Fort Wayne, Indiana has an image of a Minuteman on a wall near the main door. It is, or was, a depiction of the kind of man who fought for our freedom and…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: May 21, 2020
The University of Queensland may expel 20-year-old philosophy major Drew Pavlou. He has been protesting against the Chinese Communist Party and in support of the Hong Kong protesters, but perhaps most tellingly has criticized his school’s ties to China. Xu Jie, the Chinese consul general in Brisbane, has blasted Pavlou…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: May 12, 2015
Who is your state’s attorney general? It’s an awesomely powerful position. And it is therefore worth asking any future candidates for that office by what clear principles of justice, fairness, impartiality and even mercy they will abide. They will all, no doubt, claim to be “tough on crime” — and…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: July 30, 2008
Blight. One of my favorite bloggers, Blue Collar Muse, refers to the continual abuse of eminent domain by government as "blight." He"s playing off the slippery concept of blight that local governments use to condemn whole areas in order to steal homes and small businesses. This Muse also alerted me…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: May 22, 2008
The sign said “Beware of the Dance Police.†It graced a wooden post at San Tan Flat, a restaurant in Pinal County, Arizona. It was part of the restaurant’s protest against the county’s busy-bodyish no-dancing rule. Owners Dale Bell and son Spencer appealed that decision. And won. Spencer gladly took…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: May 14, 2012
One hallmark of a free society is the legal right to make fun of our leaders. Several times per week I engage in ridicule as well as argument against the folks who think they know what they are doing when they attempt to rule us. We should wear this freedom…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: September 10, 2013
Tonight Americans have an opportunity to listen to President Barack Obama as he directly states his case for a U.S. military attack on Syria. Wouldn’t it be nice if, for one day, instead of Americans listening to the president, the president had to listen to us? Not just on Syria…
Relevance: 18% 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: 17% Posted on: May 21, 2013
Senator Lamar Alexander compares the latest Obama administration scandal to Iran-Contra . . . he says it’s “even bigger.” One hates to continually harp on the president and his scandals, but he and his big government keep producing them. So here we go again! Obamacare was supposed to save money.…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: December 22, 2014
Most ballot measures to enact term limits triumph. According to U.S. Term Limits, 100 percent of such measures did so in last November’s elections. Voters also rebuff most attempts to weaken or repeal term limits. But not all. Politicians who loathe term limits often use all their resources and cunning…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: April 9, 2014
Brendan Eich resigned last week as CEO of Mozilla under pressure from gay rights activists upset because six years ago Eich had given a thousand bucks to California’s anti-gay marriage initiative, Prop 8. On Fox News’s Special Report, George Will dubbed the story “redundant evidence that progressives are for diversity…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: February 28, 2012
Wikipedia surprised a lot of people, changed a lot of minds: Online collaboration can accomplish great things. Following Wikipedia, other interactive, collaborative, not-quite-commercial Web-based projects have offered more evidence that the Internet can transform everyday life. Take Kickstarter.com. It’s really ramped up to something impressive, as Carl Franzen points out…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: July 1, 2013
Gone are the happy-go-lucky days of buying water and then going home as though it were no big deal. Elizabeth Daly learned the hard way. As she and her roommates walked toward her car in a dark parking lot, she was accosted by a crew of Virginia state Alcohol Beverage…