On Independence Day, perhaps consider upon what principles and habits of sociality liberty depends.
Here is food for that contemplation:
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Upon What Does Liberty Rest?
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A Big American Day
Christmas is a great American holiday. George Washington himself made it one — a big, significant victory early on when things were looking grim. It mattered.
Washington’s Crossing of the Delaware River:
The Revolutionary War in Four Minutes
A Bold Gamble: Washington Crossing the Delaware River
George Washington Remembers Crossing The Delaware
Merry Christmas and Happy History!
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A Truce
This commentary, Common Sense with Paul Jacob, usually deals with man’s inhumanity to man — man’s insanity to man, oftentimes. But on this Christmas Eve, let’s for just a moment focus squarely on some beautiful days of sanity and humanity that somewhat magically broke out of the ugliness of “total war” back eleven decades ago: World War I, “The Great War.”
Let’s remember the good times.
The Christmas Truce
A Sign Of Friendship In The Midst Of War I
THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE 1914
Christmas Truce of World War I
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob. Merry Christmas!
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On this website we have covered government involvement in tech company censorship for a long time. Readers should not miss Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Mike Benz, who goes into significant detail, and with some new information and a perhaps-startlingly wide perspective:
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Watch: Keep Taiwan Free
Paul no longer produces his weekly “weekend wrap-up” podcast, This Week in Common Sense. But he still has something to say. This is the video of the talk shared on audio yesterday:
Please go to StopTheChinazis.org for more information.
Paul Jacob is in Taiwan right now, so the question is on his mind. He has a few answers. And you have a few options:
- Listen to his talk on SoundCloud (where his podcasts were hosted).
- Watch the talk on StoptheChinazis.org.
- Go to Facebook to watch the video or chat about it with your social media contacts.
- Watch it below; comment on it below:
“Make my enemies ridiculous”:
Watch on Rumble: https://rumble.com/v437krc-voltaires-nsfw-christmas-message.html
Free speech continues to recur as a major theme on this site. And no wonder: it’s under attack. But there is indeed more to it than that:
The grey eminence looming over San Francisco is Xi Jinping?
It is not all bleak. As Paul insists in this episode of This Week in Common Sense: