Common Sense with Paul Jacob

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Citizen-Only Voting

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Paul Jacob, in addition to writing columns five days a week on this website, is the chairman of Americans for Citizen Voting. He recommends these resources to help increase understanding of an important issue on the ballot in eight states across the union.

ACV President Avi McCullah’s “Path To Citizenship”:

ACV-NC Director Kevrick McKain testifying before NC Senate Re-Districting and Elections Committee:

MO Treasurer Vivek Malek sets the record STRAIGHT on Noncitizen Voting:

Vote YES on Amendment 7 to Preserve Missouri Election Integrity!

GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Meet the Press:

Paul Jacob’s columns on non-citizen voting:

Spilt Ink
October 21, 2024

Democrats and Noncitizen Voting
October 7, 2024

Jugglers & Clowns
July 9, 2024

The Non-Citizen Dodge
May 28, 2024

More Is Less
March 26, 2024

Alien National Capital
March 7, 2023

Reforms from Ground Zero
January 10, 2022

Ballots, Barriers and Buncombe
September 13, 2021

Should Non-Citizens Vote?
July 10, 2018

Thought

Dr. Drew Pinsky

There is literally no one in the public sphere that you or I can trust.
Drew Pinsky in conversation with Winston Marshall, “Dr Drew Analyses Kamala’s Cognitive Abilities” (November 1, 2024).

Today

Army Disbands

On November 3, 1783, the American Continental Army — its mission fulfilled — was disbanded.

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What Floats

“The Puerto Rico trash problem has been growing for decades,” explained John Tarrantino on Wednesday, at The Environmental Blog. “With a population of around 3.2 million, the island generates about 3.7 million tons of waste yearly. Despite being small, the island’s landfills are full and there’s no proper recycling infrastructure. This trash crisis affects everything from health to the economy so solutions are crucial for Puerto Rico’s future.”

This, some have suggested, accounts for Tony Hinchcliffe’s infamous joke written about by Paul yesterday.

Does it make the “floating island of garbage” comment funny?

Puerto Ricans don’t seem to be laughing. But if Mr. Hinchcliffe gets invited to the island territory of the United States for a gig, we’ll reconsider.

NOTE: Puerto Rican resident and infamous investment advisor Peter Schiff has advice for voting next week:

Thought

Joseph Warren

Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.

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Committee of Correspondence

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On November 2, 1772, Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren formed the first Committee of Correspondence, which were instrumental in preparing the colonies from their 1776 breakaway from the British Empire of George III.

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Taking Out The

At last Sunday’s Trump Rally in Madison Square Garden, Tony Hinchcliffe, a reputed comedian, told a very unfunny joke, referring to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

The outcry was understandably loud, so noisy in fact that it apparently awakened Sleepy Joe Biden. “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” declared the man who is — remember? — currently still president of the United States.

Mr. Biden has since clarified that he did not mean what he said. That’s good.

Though, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sounded a different note: “So, just to clarify, he was not calling Trump supporters garbage, which is why he put out . . . a statement that clarified what he meant and what he was trying to say.”

But Mr. Biden did say what he said. That’s not in dispute — it’s on videotape.

Yet . . . the reporting seems fuzzier now about whether President Biden uttered what our ears heard.

On NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt began a segment by referring to Biden’s “apparent reference to Trump supporters as garbage.”

At Vox, Eric Levitz defends the president, arguing that he “ended up spouting a garbled stream of words,” sure, but those words “may or may not have dehumanized all Trump supporters as ‘garbage.’”

How could Levitz know for certain? He’s not an etymologist, after all.

A Washington Post analysis also found the president’s lack of noticeable cognition to absolve him of any ill intent. “Biden’s increasing tendency to stumble over his words, which marred these very comments,” the paper explains, “makes it entirely plausible that he didn’t intend to tar large numbers of Trump supporters.”

At best, we have a commander-in-chief who can no longer communicate coherently. With his finger on the nuclear button.

What — me worry?

This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.

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Isabel Paterson

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.
Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine, 1943, p. 242.

Today

French Revolution

On November 1, 1790, Edmund Burke published his Reflections on the Revolution in France, predicting that the French Revolution would end in disaster. Though many have disputed his premises and reasoning, few dispute his prophecy, which proved spot on.

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Gnashing of Teeth

Congressman Tim Burchett (R-Tenn) “doesn’t trust the Pentagon; never have.” But he does put some hope in a Trump presidency.

“I’m convinced that if he’s elected, there’ll be disclosure.”

He’s not talking about about JFK assassination disclosure — not his bailiwick.

He’s talking about UFOs — or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, as they are now called.

Burchett thinks Trump will be our Disclosure President.

UFO enthusiasts shouldn’t get their hopes up. Trump is not the first president to have been touted as a UFO truth-teller.

Jimmy Carter infamously admitted that he saw a UFO once, and had hoped to bring transparency to the Pentagon on the subject. The lore about how this fizzled is . . . odd.

William Jefferson Clinton went in to office hoping to get to the bottom of two mysteries, UFOs and the JFK assassination. He admitted he got nowhere.

Hillary Clinton promised to disclose as much as she could about UFOs to the American people — her right-hand man was John Podesta, a well-known UFO disclosure advocate — just so long as the information did not jeopardize national security.

A big proviso, that.

Anyway, Hillary didn’t get elected, and the hoped-for disclosure . . . started anyway. A workaround spearheaded by Luis Elizondo, a Deep State man from way back, put UFOs back in the headlines in 2017, and we’ve been talking about them ever since.

But Elizondo’s intel background screams “psy-op” to some people, and it crosses most folks’ minds that the slow disclosure we’re witnessing now is not entirely on the up-and-up. Actual disclosure would lead, Burchett says, “to much gnashing of teeth.” But he believes that Trump has learned something.

“He gets it now.”

Well, we don’t. Hand over the information.

This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.

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