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This weekend’s podcast covers last week’s big stories and a whole lot more. Call it an abundance, a hyper-abundance. But don’t call it a cluster anything — for, all yucks aside, this is serious stuff:

This Week in Common Sense, January 20-24, 2020..

Initiative, Referendum and Recall (refresh for more)

Voters Ruin Everything
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Fear and Freedom
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Video: On the Road in South America, Part Two
SharingTaking a few moments away from the main events of …
Put Federalism In Your Pipe
SharingThough centralized power, coalescing in Washington, D.C., has increased in …
Go Nats?
SharingJust a few miles away from where I live sits …

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Term Limits (refresh for more)

The Self-Neutered Congress
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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