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What Is (and Is Not) Over

Post author By Redactor
Post date February 8, 2020

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The big stories this last week will loom over our imaginations and in memory for quite a long time:

This Week in Common Sense, February 3 – 7, 2020.

A Really Bad Sign
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Petition Police
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Do-Gooders Do Bad
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Golden State Voters
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What Unlimited Government Costs Us
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The CDC on Self-Defense
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Idaho Foils Foul Harvest
April 24, 2024
Paul Jacob defends an apparent abridgment of free trade.Read More »
College Censors Squelched
April 23, 2024
Paul Jacob on a campus free speech win.Read More »
Brave New Budgets
April 22, 2024
Paul Jacob on politicians’ newfound ability to painlessly cut government.Read More »
Brussels Conference Squelched
April 19, 2024
Paul Jacob on ideological suppression in Europe.Read More »

Into and Out of the Muck
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They Aren’t Lying Now?
Sharing“You lie!” When U.S. Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouted this …
Protests and Propaganda
SharingPoised to gobble up Hong Kong whole, completing the process …
A Fake Mystery
SharingCalifornia’s new top banana is playing politics the old-fashioned way: …
Creeping Bernie-ism
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On April 26, 1777, Sibyl Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British. Her ride was over twice as long as Paul Revere’s more famous effort.

On the same day in 1805, United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O’Bannon, an important event in the First Barbary War.

In April 26, 1865, Union cavalry troopers cornered John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia, shooting him to death. There was no interrogation.