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Equality of rights under the law is no excuse for equality of tyranny. Click on over to Townhall.com for the full column. Come back here for more information and opinion:

• ABC News: GOP Debate Question on Draft Registration for Women
• Politico: Cruz – Drafting women is ‘nuts’
• VIDEO: 2008 Campaign – Clinton FOR Registering Women
• VIDEO: 2016 Campaign – Clinton Unsure on Registering Women
• VIDEO: The George W. Bush You Forgot (2000 Debate)
• San Diego Union-Tribune: Carter urges Congress to reconsider draft registration
• New York Times: Draft Registration for Women Would Stir a Sleepy Government Agency
• The Hill: Lawmakers offer bill requiring women to register for draft
• The Hill: Bill introduced to end the draft
• Townhall: “Draft the Congress and Leave My Kid Alone” – Paul Jacob
• United States of America v. Paul Jacob
• Washington Post: “Don’t make women register … end draft registration for everyone” – Christopher Preble
• Liberty.me: “End, Don’t Extend, Draft Registration” – Sheldon Richman
• Hoover: “Time to End Draft Registration” – David R. Henderson
• Garrison Center: “Just Say No to Draft Registration for Women — and Men” – Thomas Knapp
• FEE: “Generals Want Women to Register … Let’s Abolish It” — Ilya Somin
• Anti-War.com: “End Draft Registration – Now!” – Justin Raimondo
• VIDEO: Julie Browoski — “Less Oppression, Not Equal Oppression”
• VIDEO: Ron Paul on Conscription
• Common Sense: Junk the Law
• National Review: Senator Mike Lee Pushes to Definitively Bar Women from the Draft
• The Hill: Most women oppose registering for the draft
• National Review: Only a Barbaric Nation Drafts Its Mothers and Daughters into Combat

Yes, we miss Rand Paul already.

Paul Jacob’s February 7, 2016, column is online . . .

Go to Townhall.com to read!

And come back here for more information:

• Washington Post – Rand Paul suspends presidential campaign
• Politico – Rand Paul drops out of White House race
• YouTube – Rand Paul: Thank You
• RandPaul.com – Issues
• Common Sense — Tunnel with No Light
• Paul – Nobody read the $1.1 trillion omnibus bill
• Grabien – Rand Hits Cruz: He Wants It Both Ways on the NSA
• Breibart — Rand Paul: Ted Cruz Is ‘Not Authentic’

Can a politician acknowledge an error of judgment without giving up a claim to our attention? Must politicians pretend always to be right — even when we know no one can attain such perfection?

Click on over to Townhall and check out this weekend’s longer excursion into a subject broached on Friday. And come back here for a little more reading.

• Kennedy (Fox Business) interviews Gary Johnson
• Nick Gillespie (Reason) on Johnson’s Retraction
• Will Durant explains Athenian democracy in The Story of Civilization: The Life of Greece

Will this nation be spared a President Hillary Clinton? Click on over to Townhall . . . and find out, well, who won’t stop her: Democratic Party voters. Then come back here for more reading:

• UK Daily Mail: Hillary’s emails contained classified information from HUMAN SPYING as the State Department says it won’t meet the deadline to publish her emails
• NPR: Clinton has 45-to-1 ‘Superdelegate’ Advantage Over Sanders
• Cook Political Report: Bernie-Mania’s Barrier: Democratic Delegate Math
• NBC Meet the Press: Wasserman Schultz Can’t Differentiate Democrats & Socialists
• MSNBC Hardball with Chris Matthews: Hillary Can’t Articulate a Difference, Either
• The Intercept: Bernie Sanders Gets Group Endorsements When Members Decide; Hillary Clinton When Leaders Decide
• CNN: Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders hold solid leads in Iowa, CNN/ORC poll finds
• Business Insider: POLL: Voters don’t trust Hillary Clinton

Candidacy in trouble? Add a whopper. And make your daughter say it. This weekend at Townhall, the truth about the Clintons and America. Click on over, then come back here:

• Vox: Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Trust You
• Breitbart: Rape Victims
• Townhall (Guy Benson): Question for Hillary
• Wikipedia: Chelsea Clinton
• The Hill: Chelsea Clinton goes on the attack; Democrats ask why
• Los Angeles Times: Why did NBC reportedly pay Chelsea Clinton $600,000 a year?
• Washington Post: Clinton’s attacks produce windfall of campaign cash for Sanders

It’s the corruption, stupid — not the stupidity. This weekend at Townhall, what is our biggest problem? Click on over, then come back here:

• Gallup: Government Named Top U.S. Problem for Second Straight Year
• Washington Post: Solyndra Scandal
• Common Sense: Stop Phony Crony Pay Grab
• CS Meme: Arkansas Pay Raise
• Ballotpedia: Alabama Legislative Compensation Amendment (2012)
• The Blaze: ‘Clinton Is in a League of Her Own’: Watchdog Group Names Most Ethically Challenged Politicians of 2015
• Common Sense: Democrats’ Own Private Government
• NBC News: Defense Secretary Ash Carter Used Personal Email for Pentagon Work

Barack Obama wants to go out swinging, like a take-charge super-president. And his next target? Gun rights. Click on over to Townhall.com for the  January 3, 2016, column by Paul Jacob. Then come back here:

• Washington Post: Obama plans curbs on guns
• Wall Street Journal: Obama to Discuss Gun Control Options with Attorney General
• Washington Post: Obama explores unilateral steps on guns
• Fox News: Gun crime prosecutions on decline, amid call for more laws
• Address to the Nation by the President – Dec. 6, 2015
• YouTube: Trey Gowdy grills DHS official on due process
• New York Post: Now even Obama has to admit San Bernardino was terrorism
• CNS News: Obama Finally Calls Fort Hood a Terrorist Attack

Who will fact check the fact checkers?

How about you and me?

We certainly cannot trust PolitiFact, so . . .

click on over to Townhall.com . . .

and then come back here.

Why? For further information:

• PolitiFact: Ted Cruz
• PolitiFact: Who is PolitiFact? Who pays for Politifact?
• Congress: Senate Joint Resolution 19
• CNS News: Cruz Says Senate Dems to Repeal the First Amendment
• Washington Times: “‘Fahrenheit 451’ Democrats,” by Sen. Ted Cruz
• Townhall: “Let’s Repeal Freedom of Speech?” by Paul Jacob
• Townhall: “The Democrats’ Domino Theory of Rights,” by Paul Jacob
• Townhall: “The Democrats’ Steady SuperPAC,” by Paul Jacob
• Forward Progressive: “Ted Cruz Ridiculously Claims Democrats Trying to Repeal the First Amendment”
• SCOTUS: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
• FEC: McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission

Fixing the welfare state, for everybody’s benefit, should be high on the political agenda. But if a fix isn’t possible, maybe we should be thinking more radically about its very real problems.

Click on over to Townhall.com, for Paul Jacob’s December 20, 2015, column. Then come back here, for more information.

• Cato: “Finland to Break New Ground with Basic Income Experiment,” by Charles Hughes
• Independent Institute: “Property Rights, Coercion, and the Welfare State: The Libertarian Case for a Basic Income for All,” by Matt Zwolinski
• Independent Institute: “A Philosophical Economist’s Case against a Government-Guaranteed Basic Income,” by David R. Henderson
• The Tom Woods Show: “Should Libertarians Support a Basic Income Guarantee?,” Tom Woods interviewing Matt Zwolinski
• The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society: “Guaranteed Income as a Replacement for the Welfare State,” by Charles Murray
• The Atlantic: “The Conservative Case for a Guaranteed Basic Income,” by Noah Gordon
• Cato: “Tangled Web of Welfare Programs Creates High Tax Rates on Participants,” by Charles Hughes
• Congressional Budget Office: “Effective Marginal Tax Rates for Low- and Moderate-Income Workers in 2016”
• The Guardian: “Even in Finland, universal basic income is too good to be true,” by Declan Gaffney
• Adam Smith Institute: “Will the Finns be the first to introduce a basic income?” by Mikko I Arevuo

On Saturday, we regaled you with the video clip of Gov. John Kasich, more than straddling the proverbial fence, indeed . . . jumping around it like a rodeo clown — or perhaps someone in a tad less control.

Today, at Townhall.com, we aim to edify . . . with an analysis of same. Click on over, then come back here, for more Governor John Kasich fun!

• YouTube: Gov. John Kasich Speaks at New Hampshire Townhall
• Spectator (1994 Flashback): “The Trouble With Kasich,” by Robert Novak
• Plunderbund: ‘Eight Is Enough For Ohio Politicians’ Term Limit Group Says
• Ohio Watchdog: Seen the light? Ohio Gov. Kasich says Bible supports Obamacare
• Ohio Rising: Trouble on the Right for Governor Kasich
• ABC News: Meet John Kasich
• John Kasich: Mom Told Me to Find a Jewish Friend
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Kasich explains his stand on marijuana
• Politico: Kasich calls for new federal agency to promote Judeo-Christian values
• Matthew 25