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Watch: We Have to Stop Being Scared

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Post date July 31, 2022
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Paul defends Taiwan. Won’t you?

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Watch: Democracy Without Doxxing

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Post date July 24, 2022
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Paul Jacob defends anonymous political speech in this episode of the podcast; the video edition:

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Watch: Cancelation Crisis and Free Speech Project

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Post date July 17, 2022
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Paul Jacob concentrates on the First Amendment issue in the social media landscape.

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Watch: Independence for Taiwan?

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Post date July 10, 2022
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Independence Day, 1776, July 2, July 4, Brexit, British, freedom

This Week in Common Sense for the week starting July 4, 2022.

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Watch: Anti-Demagoguery in Action

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Post date July 3, 2022
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Fending off the chirping sectaries, not tilting at windmills!

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Watch: Dobbs’ Worth (‘Roe’ Goes Down — Special Abortion-Focused Episode)

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Post date June 26, 2022
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Paul offers his perspective on where the abortion debate is going and what the politics of abortion — and other anti-natalist policies and sentiments — is becoming.

Eleven Fiftieths
Eleven states have “bottle bills,” legislation requiring vendors to collect …
Grand Rapids’ Grand Alliance
Two incredible activists in Grand Rapids, Michigan, have achieved the …
Time to Wait
“You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste,” said …
Spoiler Season
“Libertarians poll high enough to tip key races,” informs The …
The Untold Story of the Oklahoma Three
Receiving an award is a lot nicer than ten years in prison. …

Legal Trade War
March 6, 2025
Paul Jacob on the war now declared.Read More »
Not College Material?
March 4, 2025
Paul Jacob on the curious case of Stanley Zhong.Read More »
How to Kill a Bureau
March 3, 2025
Paul Jacob on how a meddling bureaucracy is being prepared …Read More »
Death of a Cemetery
February 28, 2025
Paul Jacob on fighting regulation on your family plot.Read More »
How Audits Work in Real Life
February 27, 2025
Paul Jacob beats back DOGE critics’ fallacies.Read More »

The Hilarity of a Serious Threat
Is today’s politics tragic or comic? Take the current Democratic Party …
Abolishing You
In a recent Washington Post essay — “Is the individual obsolete?” — syndicated columnist George …
Make Others Pay?
Special Olympics has found a way to get kids and young …
Yesterday’s NOW
Once upon a time, the National Organization for Women winked to …
A Fraction of a Reaction
“A little dab’ll do ya.” That was from Brylcream, not 23andme. …

On March 6, 1967, Soviet Premiere Joseph Stalin’s only daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva (February 28, 1926 – November 22, 2011), defected to the United States. She later took the name Lana Peters, upon marriage to William Wesley Peters. The marriage was short-lived.

The March 6 date also marks term limits advocate and initiative organizer Paul Jacob’s birthday. He was born on the anniversary of the births of Michaelangelo, Cryano de Bergerac, and Alan Greenspan. He is also, obviously, the main reason that this site, ThisIsCommonSense.org, exists.

When I read Wired, the book written by (what’s his name?) Woodward, about Belushi — I read like five pages of Wired — and I went, “Oh, my God: they framed Nixon.” … If this is what he writes about my friend that I’ve known for half of my adult life, which is completely inaccurate — talking to people of the outer, outer circle, getting the story — what the hell could they have done to Nixon?
Bill Murray in conversation with Joe Rogan on the Joe Rogan Experience (March 1, 2025), #2282.

— Bill Murray