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Watch: Allergic to Trouble

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Post date July 11, 2021
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The state of the world is nothing to sneeze at:

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Watch: Who to Trust

Not the Deep State; not the major media; not the State of Idaho; not … Tucker Carlson?

Trust Paul Jacob!

This Week in Common Sense, June 28 — July 2, 2021.

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Watch: A Tribute to John McAfee

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Post date June 27, 2021
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Paul begins his weekend podcast with a tribute of sorts:

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Watch: Bad Folks

The vlog version of the weekend podcast:

This Week in Common Sense, June 18, 2021.

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Watch: … the Cost

Paul Jacob on Arkansas, China, and other beleaguered tyrannical places.

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Watch: What the Heck Is Going On?

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Post date May 30, 2021
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This Week in Common Sense for the final week of May, 2021:

No Argument
Paul Jacob on the silence of the slams.
Erecting Democracy
Though I opposed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, I was not …
A Fraudulent Anti-Fraud Bill
The theory behind Washington State’s Senate Bill 5297 — now worming its …
America After November
Yesterday, I bemoaned the disaster that is this year’s presidential race. …
Graceless Memphis Politicians
“We could care less about instant runoff voting,” fibbed Allan …

Skill-Free Teachers
January 10, 2025
Paul Jacob has a problem with illiterate and innumerate educators.Read More »
Bill Nye, the Jail-My-Debating-Opponent Guy
January 9, 2025
Paul Jacob is revolted at yet another Biden honoree.Read More »
Exit Trudeau
January 8, 2025
Paul Jacob on the future ex-prime minister.Read More »
GEC Bullet Ducked?
January 7, 2025
Paul Jacob on the bureaucrats’ persistent itch to censor us.Read More »
Pardon Me
January 6, 2025
Paul Jacob on the possible cover-up of the cover-up of …Read More »

The Demand for Term Limits
Lots of talk about term limits last week — in Washington. Of …
Conflicts Perplexing Prominent Politicians
When does the same old song-and-dance, performed by yet another …
Reform Follows Function
Waiting for this week’s Supreme Court decision on Obamacare, which …
Professional Politicians & Crony Capitalists
Yesterday, I explained how the official title for California’s Proposition 28 …
Calling Hatch Home
Back in 2012, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch pledged that, if …

Of Loot and Leverage
Without a special kicker, why should police bother to do their jobs? …
Propaganda Bombs
“In these times, we have to unify,” President Donald Trump …
Fakes & Facts
“There was truth and there was untruth,” George Orwell wrote …
Against Spying on American Journalists
Does the Federal Bureau of Investigation have a file on you? Does …
Congress’s King
Politics today reveals a troubling dialectic. Thesis: President Trump boasts that …

On January 11, 1571, the freedom of religion was granted to Austrian nobility.

Two years earlier, the first recorded lottery in England was held.

In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the eleventh day of the first month of 1759, the first American life insurance company was incorporated.

On January 11, 1935, Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

On this date in 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan commuted the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois’s death row based on the Jon Burge torture/duress scandal.

I accept this idea of democracy. I am all for trying it out. It must be a good thing if everybody praises it like that. If our government has been willing to go to war and sacrifice billions of dollars and millions of men for the idea I think that I ought to give the thing a trial. The only thing that keeps me from pitching head long into this thing is the presence of numerous Jim Crow laws on the statute books of the nation. I am crazy about the idea of Democracy. I want to see how it feels.
Zora Neale Hurston, “Crazy for This Democracy,” Negro Digest (December 1945).

— Zora Neale Hurston

Government
You can’t feed a part of it without feeding the whole damn …
How to Know
Many people don’t seem to realize that a prohibition (banning something) …
“I’ve Got a Plan for That.”
“If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person …
Trump’s Dangerous Idea
A lot of people were impressed by the reasonableness of …
Protesting the Nazis in Munich, in 1943
A brother-and-sister team of anti-Nazi activists were arrested on this …