In the last few weeks we have learned how wrong much of what we are told about who legally and effectively picks the presidential candidates in the major political parties.
Who has an interest in not telling the truth, and undermining the integrity of America’s political parties?
Government to citizens: go shop yourselves to death; leave the warfare to us…
The comedy of the “settled science” of nutrition has really been improved by federal support:
In what we plan as a new feature here at Common Sense, our video of the week is … Common Sense! That is, a video chat featuring Paul Jacob himself:
Here Paul reviews the basic information about the week’s biggest story: the GOP delegates are not what they seem.
A short discussion on campaign finance reform and the First Amendment, addressing the usual arguments against the Citizens United decision, but making a few points rarely heard together:
Legal scholar Randy Barnett, as interviewed by Reason’s Nick Gillespie:
Not all talks need visual aids or a declamatory style. Here a scholar calmly looks at Somalia and sees repeated failure and cluelessness … on the part of our government, especially.
And now our foreign policy geniuses want to export from Somalia the very same policies that worked so poorly there!
CAUTION: The speaker here appeals to the facts and to reason. There is none of that excitement of the denunciatory spirit, so common on YouTube. No cheap thrills. This is for reasonable people.
A spirited British debate, starring Daniel Hannan, MEP:
Johan Norberg gives the concise case against the old hat leftist love for “Swedish Socialism”:
Look around YouTube and you will find more from Norberg about the reality behind the myths of Scandinavia.
The truth about the Democratic Party’s selection method, according to Reason tv:
Note: Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass has credited one Paul Jacob for being among the first to raise the issue of superdelegates — via a Townhall column (and Common Sense):
More than a month ago, libertarian Paul Jacob, writing on TownHall.com, examined how Democratic powerbrokers had rigged the game with superdelegates. It’s too bad that those young millennials feeling the Bern don’t read TownHall.com.