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Paul on Paul Harvey (and Politicians and Other)

Post author By Redactor
Post date December 1, 2019

The weekend podcast starts light and gets deadly serious:

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This Week’s Two Biggest Stories (podcast)

Post author By Redactor
Post date November 24, 2019

The SoundCloud platform has something new to listen to . . . and tell your friends about:

This Week in Common Sense, the podcast.

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Billions of, by, and for B.S. (podcast)

Post author By Redactor
Post date November 17, 2019

Paul’s weekend wrap up, in audio:

This Week in Common Sense, Nov. 17, 2019.

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The Silence Option (podcast)

Post author By Redactor
Post date November 10, 2019

Paul’s weekend wrap-up, in audio:

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The War Lottery (podcast)

Post author By Redactor
Post date November 3, 2019

Paul offers his weekend wrap-up:

This Week in Common Sense, Nov. 3, 2019.

Not a Joke
Yesterday, the chief sponsor of a Washington State legislative bill …
Don’t Copy Chávez
Americans eager to weaken various limits on political power here …
Trading One Right for Another
Trades are not unheard of in politics, but somehow they …
Who Is John Lilburne?
Now that Citizens in Charge Foundation has given the John …
Big Brother or Barney Fife?
Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Hampshire — …

Keystone Correlation
Ninety-three-year-old Robert Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe with phony elections and brutal …
My Simpler Solution
Merry Election Day! Despite this weekend’s proposal, in the New …
Arnold Loses His Strudel
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger no longer likes term limits. He …
Ballot Trickery
When California voters read Proposition 28’s ballot title, they overwhelmingly …
The Next Election
Elections are wonderful, even when the results are awfully hard …

Bernie’s Slippery Definition of Democratic Socialism
Bernie Sanders has always given a comically slippery definition of democratic socialism. …
Socialism’s Idealistic Youth
When the protection of individual rights is replaced with vague and …
E-Panic
One of the better arguments for government relies upon sobriety: …
Smash the Duopoly
When Donald Trump called our country’s electoral process a “rigged …
They Aren’t Lying Now?
“You lie!” When U.S. Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouted this …

The Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals, written by philosopher Benedetto Croce [pictured, above] in response to the Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals by Giovanni Gentile, declared the unreconcilable split between the philosopher and the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini, to which he had previously given a vote of confidence on October 31, 1922.

The manifesto was published by Il Mondo on May 1, 1925, which was Workers’ Day, symbolically responding to the publication of the Fascist manifesto on the Natale di Roma, the founding of Rome (traditionally celebrated on April 21). The Fascist press claimed that the Crocian manifesto was “more authoritarian” than its Fascist counterpart — a typical leftist dismissal of what used to be called “liberalism” — in Italian, liberismo — but which Croce dubbed liberism, to distinguish it from the dirigiste quasi-socialisms of self-described “liberals” of the time.

It is a tolerably well-ascertained fact that men are still selfish. And that beings answering to this epithet will employ the power placed in their hands for their own advantage is self-evident. Directly or indirectly, either by hook or by crook, if not openly, then in secret, their private ends will be served. Granting the proposition that men are selfish, we cannot avoid the corollary, that those who possess authority will, if permitted, use it for selfish purposes.
Herbert Spencer, “The Constitution of the State,” Part 1, Chapter XX, §2 of Social Statics: or, The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed, (London: John Chapman, 1851).

— Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

Truly Antifascist

They Don’t Get It

Hypocrisy’s Cash Value

Criminal Discrimination?

So Horrible?

The CDC on Self-Defense