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Friday’s events may cast a shadow upon the rest of the race — or serve as a spark to ignite a fiery finish of this campaign year. Click on over to Townhall, for Paul Jacob’s Common Sense perspective. Other links? Well, there are stories everywhere. But for the GOP also-rans complaining about the front runner, click over to the Washington Post.

And scroll on back to yesterday’s video.

The image, above, is of one of the protestors getting his flag up onto CNN’s cameras. The CNN commentariat did not see fit to mention it. I guess it would have broken the rhythm of most of the talking heads excoriating Trump for all the violence. I am sure they think Trump was responsible for protestors blocking ambulances, too.

The Bill and Hillary Show has never stopped playing in America. Click on over to Townhall, for this weekend’s expansion of Friday’s Common Sense. Then come back here for a walk down Memory Lane — and don’t be fooled, at this point, it still makes a difference!

• Of the original Teflon charge: “Nothing stuck to ‘Teflon President,’” by Patricia Schroeder, in USA Today.
• Clintonian Ontology: Timothy Noah commemorates Slick Willie’s best evasion, on Slate.
• Distraction: The historic bombing of an aspirin plant, mimicking film fiction (Wag the Dog, 1997).
• Judge Napolitano on the latest scandal to affect a Clinton’s electoral chances: “Hillary Should be Terrified that Ex-Staffer Was Granted Immunity.”
• What is an “ad hominem” argument, really?
• Remember the “Vast Right-wing Conspiracy“? Hillary does.
• Hillary Clinton’s mind virus, “What Difference Does It Make?”:
  

What people get paid in the open market depends upon choices about time and productivity. But not all work takes place in that market. And there’s progress, to boot.

Click on over to Townhall.com, for this weekend’s dose of Common Sense — something rare when it comes to talk about earnings differences between the sexes.

Then come back here for more reading:

• Melinda Gates, “More Time,” 2016 Annual Report of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Wikipedia, “Gender pay gap”
• Steve Tobak, “The Gender Pay Gap Is a Complete Myth,” CBS News
• Conor Doughtery, “Young Women’s Pay Exceeds Male Peers,’” Wall Street Journal
• Department of Education STEM page
• Mark J. Perry, “Male-Female Occupational Death Gap Is 13 to 1,” Carpe Diem
• Simon Baron-Cohen, The Essential Difference: Male and Female Brains and the Truth About Autism, 2004
• Elzabeth Nolan Brown, “North America Has the Smallest Unpaid Labor Gap Between Men and Women Worldwide,” Reason

Zombie government wants to eat our brains. Click on over to Townhall, for this weekend’s Common Sense column. Then come back here for more brain pickings:

• Tim Cook — A Message to Our Customers
• John McAfee — I’ll decrypt the San Bernardino phone free of charge so Apple doesn’t need to place a back door on its product
• Scott Shackford — The Encryption Fight We Knew Was Coming Is Here—and Apple Appears Ready
• Wikipedia — Clipper chip

Equality of rights under the law is no excuse for equality of tyranny. Click on over to Townhall.com for the full column. Come back here for more information and opinion:

• ABC News: GOP Debate Question on Draft Registration for Women
• Politico: Cruz – Drafting women is ‘nuts’
• VIDEO: 2008 Campaign – Clinton FOR Registering Women
• VIDEO: 2016 Campaign – Clinton Unsure on Registering Women
• VIDEO: The George W. Bush You Forgot (2000 Debate)
• San Diego Union-Tribune: Carter urges Congress to reconsider draft registration
• New York Times: Draft Registration for Women Would Stir a Sleepy Government Agency
• The Hill: Lawmakers offer bill requiring women to register for draft
• The Hill: Bill introduced to end the draft
• Townhall: “Draft the Congress and Leave My Kid Alone” – Paul Jacob
• United States of America v. Paul Jacob
• Washington Post: “Don’t make women register … end draft registration for everyone” – Christopher Preble
• Liberty.me: “End, Don’t Extend, Draft Registration” – Sheldon Richman
• Hoover: “Time to End Draft Registration” – David R. Henderson
• Garrison Center: “Just Say No to Draft Registration for Women — and Men” – Thomas Knapp
• FEE: “Generals Want Women to Register … Let’s Abolish It” — Ilya Somin
• Anti-War.com: “End Draft Registration – Now!” – Justin Raimondo
• VIDEO: Julie Browoski — “Less Oppression, Not Equal Oppression”
• VIDEO: Ron Paul on Conscription
• Common Sense: Junk the Law
• National Review: Senator Mike Lee Pushes to Definitively Bar Women from the Draft
• The Hill: Most women oppose registering for the draft
• National Review: Only a Barbaric Nation Drafts Its Mothers and Daughters into Combat

Yes, we miss Rand Paul already.

Paul Jacob’s February 7, 2016, column is online . . .

Go to Townhall.com to read!

And come back here for more information:

• Washington Post – Rand Paul suspends presidential campaign
• Politico – Rand Paul drops out of White House race
• YouTube – Rand Paul: Thank You
• RandPaul.com – Issues
• Common Sense — Tunnel with No Light
• Paul – Nobody read the $1.1 trillion omnibus bill
• Grabien – Rand Hits Cruz: He Wants It Both Ways on the NSA
• Breibart — Rand Paul: Ted Cruz Is ‘Not Authentic’