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Listen: Who You Gonna Trust?

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Post date July 3, 2021
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Why, Paul Jacob, of course!

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Listen: Le Morte d’McAfee

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Post date June 26, 2021
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Paul Jacob marks the passing of John McAfee, crazy genius:

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Listen: They ARE Bad Folks, Folks

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Post date June 19, 2021
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It’s been quite a week for America in the international realm. Yet Paul Jacob still laughs. Occasionally:

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Listen: Bite the Hand that Feeds You

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Post date June 12, 2021
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If you are being fed by politicians or bureaucrats, you know what to do:

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Listen: Remember

Paul Jacob covers the big stories of the week on This Week in Common Sense for the first week of June, 2021:

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Listen: What the Heck

Paul covers China, UFOs, public schools, and other alien subjects that our major media lies about:

Skill-Free Teachers
January 10, 2025
Paul Jacob has a problem with illiterate and innumerate educators.Read More »
Bill Nye, the Jail-My-Debating-Opponent Guy
January 9, 2025
Paul Jacob is revolted at yet another Biden honoree.Read More »
Exit Trudeau
January 8, 2025
Paul Jacob on the future ex-prime minister.Read More »
GEC Bullet Ducked?
January 7, 2025
Paul Jacob on the bureaucrats’ persistent itch to censor us.Read More »
Pardon Me
January 6, 2025
Paul Jacob on the possible cover-up of the cover-up of …Read More »

Democracy vs. Power Grabber
Like many countries with a young democracy, Panama constitutionally term-limits its …
The Fix Is In
Congressman Randy Kuhl had an idea: Ask his constituents what …
Senator DeMint for Term Limits
Yes, we can term-limit the Congress. I’m not saying it will …
The Perfect Couple
A marriage made in … democracy? Last Thursday, at the …
The Article V Path
Can Americans term-limit Congress? Twenty-three states had passed term limits on …

Christmas Is Coming
When I was a kid, every December day was like a rocket-launch countdown …
The Ominous Linkages
What does a 16-year-old Swedish girl have in common with a popular …
The Venezuela Chaos
I have friends who call themselves anarchists. Their theory? Government …
For Freedom in Venezuela
Last week’s coup in Venezuela flopped, it’s reported. But “coup” …
The Irony Law of Socialism
Under capitalism, said the old socialists, “the rich get richer …

On January 11, 1571, the freedom of religion was granted to Austrian nobility.

Two years earlier, the first recorded lottery in England was held.

In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the eleventh day of the first month of 1759, the first American life insurance company was incorporated.

On January 11, 1935, Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

On this date in 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan commuted the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois’s death row based on the Jon Burge torture/duress scandal.

I accept this idea of democracy. I am all for trying it out. It must be a good thing if everybody praises it like that. If our government has been willing to go to war and sacrifice billions of dollars and millions of men for the idea I think that I ought to give the thing a trial. The only thing that keeps me from pitching head long into this thing is the presence of numerous Jim Crow laws on the statute books of the nation. I am crazy about the idea of Democracy. I want to see how it feels.
Zora Neale Hurston, “Crazy for This Democracy,” Negro Digest (December 1945).

— Zora Neale Hurston