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Watch: Folks Freaked Out!

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Post date May 10, 2020
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The weekend podcast on video:

This Week in Common Sense, May 4 — 8, 2020.

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Watch: RESIST!

The full video of this weekend’s podcast:

This Week in Common Sense, April 27 ‑May 1, 2020.

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Watch: Divided We Fail

Paul goes on the record for the week:

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Watch: This Is Not the Panic…

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Post date April 19, 2020
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This is the first episode of the podcast that has a little something extra in the video version, other than the visuals. Banter. Is banter worth switching from audio to full A/V? Only you can decide:

This Week in Common Sense, April 13 — 17, 2020.

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Watch: Something About Our Liars

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Post date April 12, 2020

This weekend, the podcast covers not only last week but foreshadows next week:

This Week in Common Sense, April 6 — 10, 2020.

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Watch: A Horror Metaphor for This Epoch

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Post date April 4, 2020
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The podcast is ready for you:

This Week in Common Sense, March 30 — April 3, 2020

Getting to Ballot in Illinois
My business is citizen initiatives. So I notice when courts — at the …
Exploring Recall in Wisconsin
You’ve heard of a campaign exploratory committee? Well, at recalldoyle.com you can …
Politicians Revolt Against Voters
“[C]urrently, in the state of Arkansas, out-of-state special interest groups …
A Second Life for Limits
Paul Jacob looks back and ahead on term limits.
Pucker Up
“Never have so few applied so much lipstick to such …

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 »

Dousing the Dumpster Fire
“Congress is less popular than traffic jams, root canals, and …
The Election Addiction Fiction
Poor Willie Brown. Ever since California slapped term limits on …
Congo Prez Prizes Service
Congo-Brazzaville’s president, Denis Sassou Nguesso, is quite the statesman. He’s …
Getting to Know You
The Fourth Estate is coming undone. Obviously. But little did I know …
Putting Principles First
Some people have this idea that if the end is …

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