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Part Two of Paul’s looking back on the big stories this week.

Initiative, Referendum and Recall (refresh for more)

Recall Legal Scholars?
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The Initiative Initiative
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Townhall: Plumber Wrench into the Gears of Gun Control
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Seeing What’s There
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Corporate Domination?
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Between the Devil and the Deep State, See?
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The Obstruction
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Townhall: Don’t Interrupt the Democrats
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Today in Freedom

On April 23, 1968, students at New York City’s Columbia University held a demonstration to protest military research and the condemnation of part of the neighboring Morningside Heights section of Harlem to make way for a new student gymnasium. The protest escalated into a week-long occupation of five campus buildings before police moved in. Some 712 students were arrested, and over 100 injured during the forcible eviction. After the university-ordered police response, a student strike shut down the campus for the rest of the semester.

Thought of the Day

The civil state regarded purely as a lawful state, is based on the following a priori principles:

• The freedom of every member of society as a human being.
• The equality of each with all the others as a subject.
• The independence of each member of a commonwealth as a citizen.

These principles are not so much laws given by an already established state, as laws by which a state can alone be established in accordance with pure rational principles of external human right.
Immanuel Kant, Theory and Practice (1791).

— Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant

One Protest (Among Many) in ’68

College Censors Squelched

Brave New Budgets

Brussels Conference Squelched

Less Oversight?

Supermarket Slavery