Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Author: Redactor
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Townhall: The Deceivers
Will the Decepticons transform Arkansas? Not if the truth gets out to the people in time.
Click on over to Townhall.com. Read. Enjoy. Then come back here for the necessary R&D.
- YouTube: Arkansas Term Limits TV Ad “Outrage”
- YouTube: Arkansas Term Limits TV Ad “Loosen”
- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription required): Group’s ads warn Issue 3 deceptive
- KTHV TV Little Rock: Ark. GOP opposes Issue 3
- The News (Salem): Arkansas Ballot Issue 3 – boon or boondoggle?
- YouTube: Speech by Tim Jacob about Issue 3 Scam
- Ballotpedia: Arkansas’s Issue 3
- Full Text of Issue 3
- Save Term Limits: Legislative Vote on Issue 3
And then: contact your friends and family in Arkansas. There is no reason to let the Decepticons win.
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Video: Grading the Governors
Who gets the A’s, who gets the F’s:
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Oct 18, Phillis Wheatley
On October 18, 1775, African-American poet Phillis Wheatley was freed from slavery, upon the death of her master. Widely appreciated in her day, she was the first African-American to publish a book.
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Niels Bohr
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
Many politicians serve as powerful arguments for term limits. Arkansas State Senator Jon Woods rivals the best.
Sen. Woods (R-Springdale) and State Rep. Warwick Sabin (D-Little Rock) authored a 22-page, 7,000-word constitutional amendment on this November’s ballot. They say Issue 3 is about ethics and transparency.
You decide.
Woods and Sabin threw together various ethics provisions and then stuck in a gutting of term limits. Their ballot title reads it is “establishing term limits” — without bothering to inform voters that it doubles how long legislators can stay in the Senate and more than doubles the House limit — to a whopping 16 years!
This week, Arkansas Term Limits debuted TV ads alerting the public to the scam, charging that legislators have “pursued a campaign of silence . . . letting the deceptive ballot title do their work,” so that “when Arkansas voters go to the polls there will be no mention of the doubling of term[s].”
The unrepentant Sen. Woods says that it is “misleading” to call his Issue 3 deceptive. Meanwhile, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that, after asking if Woods’s ballot language wasn’t indeed deceptive: “Woods said he doesn’t know.”
The senator’s response to the Arkansas GOP Convention’s nearly unanimous resolution against Issue 3? “You just have a couple of nuts that got together on a Saturday that were out of touch with Arkansans and passed a silly resolution that in no way reflects the point of view of all Republicans in Arkansas.”
Perhaps Democratic politicians are smarter. Democratic co-author Sabin is nowhere to be found in news coverage of Issue 3, likely hiding under his bed.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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October 17, Einstein
On October 17, 1933, Albert Einstein fled Nazi Germany for the United States.
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Niels Bohr
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Albert Jay Nock
The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.
“Since 9/11, under just one program police have taken two-and-a-half billion dollars in the course of over 61,000 seizures of cash alone, from people who . . . were not charged with a crime. That is the sort of behavior we laugh at other countries for, along with their accents and silly hats.”
So says a prime-time TV comedian who devotes more than 15 minutes of his monologue to exposing and critiquing the malignant practice of “civil forfeiture,” which lets cops grab and keep your cash just because it’s there.
You won’t find such an extended, mostly spot-on critique of civil forfeiture — bolstered by Q&A with the likes of Ezekiel Edwards and Scott Bullock — delivered by a “Tonight Show” or “Late Night” host. The credit goes to John Oliver (HBO’s “Last Week Tonight”), who finds plenty to satirize in the contradictions and silliness of “law enforcers” who function as thieves.
Much of the work is done for him. Oliver doesn’t have to try too hard, for example, to poke fun at the Funk Night raid, caught on video. The police seized 48 cars, contending, “simply driving vehicles to the location of an unlawful sale of alcohol was sufficient to seize a car.” Says Oliver: “Which means you might as well seize any car being driven by any teen on prom night.”
I’ve been more or less indifferent to the fate of John Oliver’s new HBO show; but now I say, ardently, “Live long and prosper!”
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.