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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: Bite!

Paul Jacob expands upon the biggest stories of the week as treated more concisely on this site, in the second week of June 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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This Week in Common Sense for the final week of May, 2021:

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Watch: (Why) They Do Not Represent Us

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Post date May 23, 2021
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From the headlines to your YouTube viewing screen:

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Watch: The Destruction of Alderaan???

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Post date May 16, 2021
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Paul Jacob feels a disturbance in the Force:

This Week in Common Sense, May 15, 2021.

Pols Don’t Like Recalls
California State Senator Josh Newman has, for now, withdrawn a bill …
How to Raise Taxes
Times are tough; state revenues, down. So politicians have a choice: …
Blackmail and Ballots
Councilman Rick Roelle in Apple Valley, California, says that Wal-Mart …
Wisconsin’s Kumbaya Moment
With all our divisive politics, who would’ve thought it would …
Voters Ruin Everything
William Endicott, former deputy managing editor of The Sacramento Bee, …

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 »

Term Limits “versus” Informed Citizens?
In his commentary “Term Limits Are a Poor Substitute for an …
Fear and Freedom
“If Libertarian Gary Johnson doesn’t win the presidency,” I posted to …
Like Motel Matches
When President Trump announced he was slapping a 25 percent tariff …
Green Politicians and Ham
Dear Reader: This “BEST of Common Sense” comment originally aired …
Stop Phony Crony Pay Grab
Are people in Arkansas as stupid as their legislators think? Last …

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