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There’s a certain amount of self-righteous gloating that goes on, left vs. right, in America today. That’s inevitable. But viewing from just one perspective is surely an error. This weekend’s Common Sense column over at Townhall.com takes a cautious look at the biases below the surface.

Click on over, and then come back for more reading.

Note, though there are a number of links in the article, a few more are worth looking at:

• Breitbart.com’s headlined coverage of the recent Rasmussen Report
• Breitbart.com’s coverage of an earlier Rasmussen Report — it’s worth noting that responses on the issue of gun violence have changed rapidly in recent months
• Wikipedia’s list of cognitive biases
• Herbert Spencer’s The Study of Sociology
• Herbert Spencer’s From Freedom to Bondage, (introduction to A Plea for Liberty, Thomas Mackay, ed.)

This weekend’s Common Sense column over at Townhall.com is about those awful Nixonian reactionaries who use government to suppress opposition and help establish fascist right-wing government here in America.

Oops. No, it isn’t. It’s about those awful Obamanian “progressives” using government to suppress opposition and help establish etc. etc.

Click on over to Townhall for the scoop. Come back here for a few extra scoops.

• BREAKING NEWS: Politico reports “IRS knew Tea Party targeted in 2011“
• Transcript of Lois Lerner’s Remarks at Tax Meeting Sparking IRS Controversy
• CBS: IRS apologizes for targeting tea party organization
• New York Times: I.R.S. Apologizes to Tea Party Groups Over Audits of Applications for Tax Exemption
• New York Times: Scrutiny of Political Nonprofits Sets Off Claim of Harassment
• The Blaze: IRS Admits To Targeting Conservative Groups During 2012 Election, Apologizes
• NPR: IRS Apologizes For Singling Out Conservative Groups

Talk is cheap. And hey: this weekend’s Common Sense column over at Townhall.com is free!

But the president’s sanctimonious talk is cheaper yet, because his actions are about everything but high-minded principles. Including freedom.

Click on over to the column, and then come back here for more links to more reading.

• LobeLog: Obama Condemns Indefinite Detention (And His Own Record)
• New York Times: Amid Hunger Strike, Obama Renews Push to Close Cuba Prison
• Slate: President Obama Can Shut Guantanamo Whenever He Wants
• Breibart: Jon Stewart Mocks Obama for Guantanamo Bay Posturing
• MSNBC: Obama signs 2013 defense authorization, minus indefinite detention ban

Over at Townhall.com, the weekend Common Sense column goes west. You go there, and then come back here to be steered in the right direction:

• Mayor Leavitt’s State of the City speech
• Paul Krugman’s New York Times op-ed (quoted)
• John Charles speaks on the subject
• Cascade video comparing light rail w/ bus service (hilarious)
• “High Capacity Light Rail and $ Million Buses, Warranted in Clark County?” by Margaret Tweet
• Court case ruling on duplicate signatures
• “Proposed light-rail ordinance won’t appear on ’13 Vancouver ballot,” The Columbian article on City Attorney opinion
• Columbia River Crossing: Facts You May Not Know (CRC Facts Forum)

Over at Townhall.com, the most recent Common Sense column explores recent legislative chicanery on a subject near and dear to Paul Jacob and to many of his readers: term limits. And yes, Republicans are finding ways of making their party less significant, less electable. The enemy is not just the Democratic Party. Not by a long shot.

Stop on over, then come back here for some extra reading:

• Arkansas Times piece on the “legislative pay raise and junket protection amendment“
• Arkansas HJR 1009
• St. Louis Dispatch piece on the state’s “term limit change“
• Missouri HJR 4
• Billings Gazette piece on the state Senate’s endorsing of a “bill to tighten term limits”
• Montana HB 277
• “United we termlimit” on Townhall, Paul Jacob

This weekend’s Common Sense column essays the ground of violence. Sneak on over to Townhall.com and then rush back here for a few more citations.

• “Iraq unrest: Deadly blast at Baquba political rally,” BBC
• “Chicago grapples with gun violence; death toll soars,” Washington Post

Over at Townhall this weekend, your Common Sense columnist considers President Obama’s emotionalist focus on the Newtown massacre as an excuse for irrelevant “gun control.” Go there. And come back here to cogitate on a few of the more controversial points:

• “Obama says ‘Shame on us’”
• MSNBC Discussion of the gun issue and emotion
• CBS News Poll on Gun Control Laws
• statistics source: Crime in the United States, 2011
• “‘Race Wars’ Part 1: The Shocking Data on Black-on-Black Crime” by Tiffany Gabbay, The Blaze
• “Race and Crime in the United States,” Wikipedia
• “Mass shootings are not growing in frequency, experts say,” New York Daily News

Over at Townhall.com, the story is one of Pyrhhic victories. You know, the kind the Republican Party seems to know best.

Now, for further reading:

• Tell Ohio Gov. John Kasich to Veto Senate Bill 47: Call (614) 466-3555 or go to his website
• Ohio Republicans Attack Petition Rights
• Idaho Grassroots Republicans Hugging Democrats
• Former Idaho Legislator Rep. Rod Beck on the politics of SB 1108
• The Idaho Vote and Some Telling Comments
• A Call to Arms in Arkansas
• Grover Norquist and Patrick Gleason on GOP Opportunities in the States

This weekend’s column over at Townhall.com looks at something we see too often everywhere: politicians subsidizing rich people’s sporting endeavors . . . on the backs of normal folks. Come back here for sources and resources, if not recourses:

• Letter to John Dangberg, PDF, from Patrick M Soluri and Jeffrey L. Anderson, re: the arena proposal
• “Will Sacramento Be a Sucker For the Kings?” by Mark Paul, Zócalo
• “NBA Handout? Let Voters Decide,” by Mark Paul
• “Judge knocks down Santa Clara 49ers referendum, appeal likely,” by Neil deMause, Field of Schemes
• “Mayor Kevin Johnson,” Wikipedia
• “Mayor reveals ‘very strong’ bid to keep Kings in Sacramento,” by Ryan Lillis, Sacramento Bee