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How we react to our enemies political opponents tells us a lot about ourselves. A lot of people do not like Tucker Carlson, despite (or because?) of the fact that a lot of Fox viewers really do like him a lot — he is a star, now.

So it may be instructive to consider one much-​ballyhooed negative evaluation of The Tucker Phenomenon. Click on over to Townhall for today’s rumination.* Then click back here to consider the source(s).

• “The Mystery of Tucker Carlson,” by Lyz Lenz (Columbia Journalism Review)
• “What happened to Tucker Carlson? This journalist set out to find the answer.,” Reliable Sources Podcast (CNN Money)
• “Tucker Carlson” (Wikipedia)
• “Tucker Carlson versus Kurt Eichenwald: Heated Interview” (Fox News; YouTube)

* Note that the good folks at Townhall were not exactly onboard with Paul’s sarcastic title, so they changed it. Paul is in Europe, but this column will appear on this site on Tuesday.

Weird to see people sporting murderous images on shirts, with sleeves or without. Click on over to Townhall for the full story, complete with “call outs.”

Then click back here for more:

• Los Angeles Pop Art Big Men’s Tank Top — Soviet Hammer And Sickle (Walmart) retrieved September 15, 2018
• Pinochet Did Nothing Wrong! — Limited T‑Shirt (ProudBoys Official) retrieved September 15, 2018
• Lithuania urges Walmart to drop Soviet-​themed shirts (The Guardian), September 8, 2018
• Lithuania Asks Walmart To Stop Selling Clothing With Soviet Symbols (RadioFreeEurope/​RadioLiberty), September 8, 2018
• @normmacdonald⁩ explains how ⁦@jimmyfallon⁩ talked to him about not going on The Tonight Show (@GeoffEdgers Twitter), 7:51 AM — 12 Sep 2018
• Norm MacDonald Said Nothing Wrong About the #MeToo Movement. In Fact, He’s Completely Correct (Brandon Morse, RedState) September 12, 2018
• Norm MacDonald’s Career In Never Doing What You Expect (Miranda Popkey, GQ), May 25 2017

This Townhall column will be archived on ThisIsCommonSense​.com on Tuesday.

Oh, how weird it has all gotten! But why? Well, what is demanded?

Click on over to Townhall​.com. Then back here for more perspective:

• “Cory Booker becomes ‘Spartacus’ at Kavanaugh hearing, and forgets his old friend T‑Bone,” by John Kass (Chicago Tribune)
• “Dianne Feinstein Wants Brett Kavanaugh to ‘Reconcile’ His Second Amendment Reasoning With ‘Hundreds of School Shootings’ That Never Happened,” by Jacob Sullum (Reason)
• “Chelsea Clinton: Legalizing Abortion Created Trillions in Economic Growth,” by Nate Church (Breitbart)
• “Did Chelsea Clinton Say Legalizing Abortion Added Trillions to the Economy?” (Snopes)
• “Piper Perabo and Linda Sarsour among 143 arrested in Kavanaugh confirmation hearing protests,” by Christianna Silva (Vice News)
• “Senator Sasse Has Good News, Bad News,” Ben Sasse on video

This column will appear on this site and in downloadable PDF on Tuesday: click here.

Guess what drug enforcement officers found: a hole.

Tunnel on over to Townhall​.com and read all about it.

So, what’s with the title? Well, there is this old folk/​camp song…

https://​youtu​.be/​c​w​T​Y​_08TKu0

• BBC: Drug tunnel ran from old KFC in Arizona to Mexico bedroom (23 August 2018 )
• Associated Press: Abandoned KFC restaurant hid drug-​smuggling tunnel (August 23, 2018)
• Washington Post: Drug-​smuggling tunnel to Mexico found under abandoned KFC in Arizona by Amy B Wang (August 24)
• Hot New HipHop: Tunnel Discovered Beneath Arizona KFC Leads To Drug Smuggling Home In Mexico by Karlton Jahmal (August 23, 2018)

To read the column on this site, or in PDF, click here.

PragerU makes interesting videos. But they bother some folk enough that “something must be done!”

Interesing recent PragerU vids include:

And here is the video that offended Facebook’s gatekeepers. Does it offend you?

Do you agree with some, or all, or none of it?

Note: disagreement is not offense, and taking offense is not the same thing as being harmed. And even “harm” may not be the proper standard for deciding matters of freedom. But that is an old debate to be discussed some other time.

Click on over to Townhall for the latest public schooling debacle. Then come back here for more testimony.

• Washington Post: In D.C. high schools, few students are passing national standardized test
• Common Sense: Reading, Writing & Racketeering
• Townhall: Teaching Students How to Cheat — and Fail
• NPR: What Really Happened At The School Where Every Graduate Got Into College
• Washington Post: Teachers at a D.C. school say seniors’ absences were erased, prompting investigation
• NPR: Head Of D.C.’s Schools Resigns After Personal Scandal And Amid District Tumult
• Washington Post: Stop enrollment fraud? D.C. school officials are often the ones committing it.
• Common Sense: Only Make Believe
• Common Sense: Cheaters Never Prosper

This article is now archived on this website.