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Here is a new story. New news, because not something that has received a lot of coverage. Sure, it is about a political fracas in North Dakota. But if it seems eerily familiar, that’s because it is: the story serves as a microcosm of the current chaotic ideological macrocosm.

Click on over to Townhall (or, on Tuesday, here) for the full story, and its meaning.

And then come back here for more story, more meaning:

• SayAnthingBlog — In Defense of Joel Heitkamp
• GOP Senate Leadership Fund — Is Joel Heitkamp Jeopardizing KFGO’s FCC License?
• The Free Beacon — Heidi Heitkamp’s Brother Leads Fight Against A Top Critic
• SayAnthingBlog — Notice the Criticism Is Not Based on What I’m Writing About Heidi Heitkamp, but That I’m Writing It at All
• InForum — McFeely: We’ve heard your concerns about Port’s obsession with Sen. Heitkamp
• Twitter — @JoelKFGO
• News & Views w/​ Joel Hietkamp (KFGO) — The best paid plans of mice and men
• Commentary — Sen. Heitkamp’s latest ad says she’ll ‘work with anyone,’ but her enemies list says otherwise
• Commentary — Just 9 percent of Heitkamp’s itemized individual contributions have come from North Dakotans, Cramer at 45 percent
• InForum — Rob Port
• WDAY 970 AM — The Rob (re)Port
• Apocalypse Now — ‘Smell of Napalm’ Scene

The burgeoning decentralization story is bigger than could be told on Thursday. So click on over to Townhall for more hints at how big this story is.

Then come back here and leap into the issue Big Time.…

Theory and History:

• Common Sense with Paul Jacob: Two Words to Know and Share
• Wikipedia: The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
• Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny, by Tom Woods
• Libertarianism​.org: Decentralization and Privacy Are Inevitable — in Tech and in Government, by Aaron Ross Powell

Gay Marriage:

• Reuters’ Factbox: List of States that Legalized Gay Marriage
• Townhall: Gay Weddings and Free Association, by Paul Jacob
• Common Sense with Paul Jacob: Rights and Democracy
• Common Sense with Paul Jacob: Setting the Policy
• Today in Freedom: A Prohibition Overturned
• Townhall: Chicken Run, by Paul Jacob

Marijuana Reform by States:

• Common Sense with Paul Jacob: Return to Federalism
• Townhall: Evil Weed or Good Cash Crop? by Paul Jacob
• Common Sense with Paul Jacob: Not Plutonium
• Townhall: A Peace Pipe Made in America, by Paul Jacob
• Common Sense with Paul Jacob: Backwoods Growers Still Outlawed?
• Common Sense with Paul Jacob: Put Federalism in Your Pipe

Firearm Rights in States and Localities:

• Common Sense with Paul Jacob: Nullifying Future Fed Gun Regs
• Chicago Tribune: Illinois Counties Declare “Sanctuary Status” for Gun Owners, Don Babwin
• CBS Chicago: Officials Create ‘Sanctuary’ Counties To Protect Gun Owners From New Laws In Rural Illinois
• NPR: In Florida, Cities Challenge State On Gun Regulation Laws, by Greg Allen
• Next City: Florida Cities Fight State Control Over Gun Laws, by Rachel Dovey

Over at Townhall, the logic of “inclusion” is examined — and the examination includes an explanation for why exclusion is the usual tactic of the inclusionists.

Click back here for the back-up.

• Yelp: Churchill Tavern
• Fox News Insider: ‘Nazi Scum, Get Out’: Milo Yiannopoulos Heckled by Crowd, Driven Out of Manhattan Bar
• Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports: A well-​organized campaign to bait, discredit, and take over universities is exploiting students and manipulating the public, by Michael Simkovic
• Volokh Conspiracy: USC Law Professor: Supporters of Campus Free Speech are ‘Preying on Vulnerable Teenagers’, by David E. Bernstein
• Discriminations​.info: Freer Speech, by Wirkman Virkkala

This column will appear on this site on Tuesday, May 8.

In the late 19th century, with the rise of union rioting, socialist agitation, and the anarchists’ “propaganda by the deed,” politics got ugly. Perhaps the reason Progressives came into power through both major parties was as a relief valve to civilize the tide of leftist violence.

We are witnessing this again. The left against resorts to direct action, violence — and so far the right has not been as violent in reaction as one might fear.

Perhaps because of the recent political turn of events, where the progressive cultural hegemony has been shaken and the party most sympathetic to the far left, the Democratic Party, has taken huge hits around the country — losing the majorities in both houses, the Presidency, and many state governorships. They are getting desperate.

Click on over to Townhall. Then come back here for more proof of the left’s dangerous swerve into insurrection and lynch-​mob protest.

• Washington Post: Protesters target NRA lobbyist’s home and wife’s business
• Omaha​.com: Protester from Lincoln faces charges for vandalism at NRA lobbyist’s home
• Pew Research: Republicans increasingly say colleges have negative impact on U.S.
• Star Herald: UNL professor, teaching assistant need to be terminated
• Campus Reform: State Sen. demands UNL fire prof who ‘berated’ conservatives
• Vogue: How a Mother of Two Ended Up on the Front Lines of the Gun Debate
• Roanoke Pride: Orlando Forgotten by Catherine Koebel Stromberg
• New York Post: This college professor is happy ‘racist’ Barbara Bush is dead
• Denver Post: Fresno State professor bragged she can’t be fired for calling Barbara Bush an “amazing racist” and is happy “the witch is dead”
• UN‑L: Patricia Wonch Hill
• Rate My Professor: Gailey
• Rate My Professor: Koebel

And then there is the general problem of radicals preaching revolution on the taxpayer dime.

Caution: you may not consider this NSFW, or church, or the ears and eyes of youngsters:

https://​youtu​.be/​d​J​2​o​jjgTEh4

This column will appear on this site on Wednesday.

A major win — a double win! — for citizens-​in-​charge government.

Click on over to Townhall for the big story. And the come back here for a little more:

• The Stranger: Eyman Wins, Judge Orders Deadly Force Initiative to Go on the November Ballot
• Seattle Times: Washington lawmakers violated state constitution when rewriting police deadly force laws, judge says
• King‑5 TV: Judge Throws Out Lawmakers’ Changes To Deadly Force Measure
• Seattle Times: Tim Eyman sues Washington state over how it changed police deadly-​force law
• The Stranger: Up Against Deadline, State Legislature Changes Washington’s Deadly Force Law
• De-​Escalate Washington (official website)
• Text of I‑940
• Ballotpedia: Washington Initiative 940 — Police Training and Criminal Liability in Cases of Deadly Force Measure (2018)
• Washington State Constitution

Well, the march to lower the voting age proceeds apace. Click on over to Townhall for Paul’s expanded thoughts from Thursday. Then come back here to expand thoughts on your own:

• Washington Post: Youthful March for Our Lives revives push to lower voting age to 16 in D.C.
• Washington Post: (editorial): Give a lower voting age a try
• FairVote: Lower the Voting Age
• Washington Blade: D.C. shouldn’t lower local and federal voting age to 16
• Vox: The case for allowing 16-​year-​olds to vote
• Guardian: ‘Have faith in our generation’: 16- and 17-​year-​olds on voting
• RealClearPolitics: David Hogg — “Our Parents Don’t Know How To Use A F*cking Democracy, So We Have To”
• Brookings: How Millennials voted this election

On Tuesday the 17th, this column appears on this site.