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This Week in Common Sense is Paul Jacob's weekend wrap-up of the big stories of the week, as they appear on “This Is Common Sense with Paul Jacob,” his commentary page at thisiscommonsense.org.
Paul Jacob is president of the Liberty Initiative Fund, a national organization helping citizens place issues on the ballot to protect individual liberty and hold government accountable.
“If there’s anyone who’s been involved in more citizen initiative campaigns in the history of this country [than Paul Jacob],” said Los Angeles Times reporter Joe Mathews, “I’m not aware of them.”
For more than a decade, Paul was the term limits movement’s leading voice, running U.S. Term Limits, the nation’s largest such group. For his work to bring term limits to Congress, columnist Robert Novak good-naturedly called Jacob “the most hated man in Washington.”
Campaigning for term limits, as well as for spending caps, property rights measures and candidate ballot access, Paul has been involved in over 175 statewide petition drives.
Currently, Paul Jacob hosts Common Sense, an online and print opinion program that reaches tens of thousands of online readers and e-mail subscribers. His new podcast is an informal recap of the week's major stories as covered on thisiscommonsense.com — hence the title, This Week in Common Sense.
“The best way to assure freedom of expression, no matter where it may be threatened,” Pulitzer-prize winning columnist, Paul Greenberg, wrote recently, “would be to have an army of utterly determined Paul Jacob fighting for it.”
Paul won the “Courage Under Fire” award at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference. He has also been named “a rising star in politics” by Campaigns & Elections magazine, received the Society for Individual Liberty’s “Phoenix Award” for “contributions to the advancement of liberty in America,” and was dubbed one of “The Best and the Rightest” by National Journal.
His writing has been featured in USA Today, The Washington Times, The New York Daily News, Roll Call, Human Events, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Examiner and other publications. He has appeared on numerous television programs and is a consistent guest on talk radio.
During the late 1970s and 1980s, Jacob held a number of positions in the Libertarian Party, including serving as chairman of the Arkansas Libertarian Party, national director of the national Libertarian Party and also national ballot access coordinator. Paul also served on the Libertarian National Committee — a position he was elected to from his federal prison cell, while serving a six month sentence for refusing to register for the military draft.
Paul currently serves on the boards of Citizens in Charge, a non-partisan group working to protect and expand voter initiative rights, and the Citizens in Charge Foundation, a charitable foundation conducting research on the initiative process, educating the public and litigating to defend petition rights — both groups he founded. He also serves on the board of the Great Communicators Foundation, a charitable foundation providing communication training to pro-liberty activists, and on the board of the Taxpayers United of America.
Paul lives with his wife Rhonda in Woodbridge, Virginia. They have three children and two grandchildren.
Paul Jacob is president of the Liberty Initiative Fund, a national organization helping citizens place issues on the ballot to protect individual liberty and hold government accountable.
“If there’s anyone who’s been involved in more citizen initiative campaigns in the history of this country [than Paul Jacob],” said Los Angeles Times reporter Joe Mathews, “I’m not aware of them.”
For more than a decade, Paul was the term limits movement’s leading voice, running U.S. Term Limits, the nation’s largest such group. For his work to bring term limits to Congress, columnist Robert Novak good-naturedly called Jacob “the most hated man in Washington.”
Campaigning for term limits, as well as for spending caps, property rights measures and candidate ballot access, Paul has been involved in over 175 statewide petition drives.
Currently, Paul Jacob hosts Common Sense, an online and print opinion program that reaches tens of thousands of online readers and e-mail subscribers. His new podcast is an informal recap of the week's major stories as covered on thisiscommonsense.com — hence the title, This Week in Common Sense.
“The best way to assure freedom of expression, no matter where it may be threatened,” Pulitzer-prize winning columnist, Paul Greenberg, wrote recently, “would be to have an army of utterly determined Paul Jacob fighting for it.”
Paul won the “Courage Under Fire” award at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference. He has also been named “a rising star in politics” by Campaigns & Elections magazine, received the Society for Individual Liberty’s “Phoenix Award” for “contributions to the advancement of liberty in America,” and was dubbed one of “The Best and the Rightest” by National Journal.
His writing has been featured in USA Today, The Washington Times, The New York Daily News, Roll Call, Human Events, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Examiner and other publications. He has appeared on numerous television programs and is a consistent guest on talk radio.
During the late 1970s and 1980s, Jacob held a number of positions in the Libertarian Party, including serving as chairman of the Arkansas Libertarian Party, national director of the national Libertarian Party and also national ballot access coordinator. Paul also served on the Libertarian National Committee — a position he was elected to from his federal prison cell, while serving a six month sentence for refusing to register for the military draft.
Paul currently serves on the boards of Citizens in Charge, a non-partisan group working to protect and expand voter initiative rights, and the Citizens in Charge Foundation, a charitable foundation conducting research on the initiative process, educating the public and litigating to defend petition rights — both groups he founded. He also serves on the board of the Great Communicators Foundation, a charitable foundation providing communication training to pro-liberty activists, and on the board of the Taxpayers United of America.
Paul lives with his wife Rhonda in Woodbridge, Virginia. They have three children and two grandchildren.
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Paul Jacob reviews the big stories of the week as they have appeared at ThisIsCommonSense.org:
November 24 — Disagreeing With Päivi Räsänen — Paul Jacob defends religious speech in Finland.
November 23 — One by One — Paul Jacob on what counts.
November 22 — Untruth Speaker, Untruth Speaker — Paul Jacob on another teachable moment thanks to Donald Trump and his opponents.
November 21 — One for the Memory Hole? — Paul Jacob on the latest onslaught of censorship and de-platforming.
November 20 — The Outsider Who Won — Paul Jacob on the winner of the Argentinian presidential election.
From the pages of ThisIsCommonSense.org:
November 17 — The Bums’ Rush — Paul Jacob on how to clean up a big city from its putrid failures.
November 16 — Limits “Of” not “To” — Paul Jacob on free speech.
November 15 — Democratic Notion for Gotion —
November 14 — DeKalb Gas Stations DeKneecapped — Paul Jacob on a county ordinance bringing dystopian practices to Georgia.
November 13 — It Is and It Isn’t — Paul Jacob on America’s most confused (and lied-about) government program.
Paul Jacob covers the big stories of the week from the pages of ThisIsCommonSense.org:
November 10 — Domination by Pseudo-experts — Paul Jacob on the shape that election interference took in 2020 and onward.
November 9 — Twelve-Point Play — Paul Jacob on unprecedented unpopularity at the top.
November 8 — Why the Banks Are Failing Us — Paul Jacob on bad service as a policy.
November 7 — Preparation HH Hornswoggle — Paul Jacob on today’s most consequential ballot measure.
November 6 — Of Stopgaps and Ladders — Paul Jacob on the looming federal government shutdown.
We begin with Jon Stewart's recent problems with Apple and China, and with, then, THE PROBLEM WITH JON STEWART! And we conclude with a discussion of Israel and Palestine. But in between Paul talks about the other stories of the week, from the pages of ThisIsCommonSense.org:
October 20 — No Protection, No Duh — Paul Jacob on the assassination of RFK, Jr.
October 19 — Un-Sportsmanlike Conduct — Paul Jacob says stop ripping off the kids.
October 18 — Bill Gates Wants to Bury Trees — Paul Jacob on the latest silviculture debate.
October 17 — The $145,000 Virtual Fine — Paul Jacob on the long, meddling arm of the CCP.
October 16 — Amber Ebony Insanity — Paul Jacob decries the continuing rise of woke segregationism.
From the pages of ThisIsCommonSense.org:
October 13 — Leverage & Resistance — Paul Jacob on the resistance in Republican ranks.
October 12 — Fiscal Protector — Paul Jacob on where our public officials heads are at.
October 11 — Unlisted Help — Paul Jacob on the tacit right governments lose track of.
October 10 — Insane in the Meme Brain — Paul Jacob on the ideas that rule Congress and the political elites.
October 9 — Why Criminals Commit Crimes — Paul Jacob promotes the common-sense view of criminality.
From the pages of ThisIsCommonSense.org:
October 6 — Don’t Fence Me In? — Paul Jacob notes the political impetus for a specific type of construction.
October 5 — Kick the Can — Paul Jacob on the Speaker of the House, old and new.
October 4 — America's Mayor Celebrates Communism — Paul Jacob on the sad, sad spectacle of a major American leader cozying up to the CCP.
October 3 — Traditional Terrorism — Paul Jacob on the hallowed habits of leftist saboteurs.
October 2 — Mass (Private) Transit — Paul Jacob on the future of getting there.
From the pages of ThisIsCommonSense.org:
September 29 — Paralyzed Man Moves — Paul Jacob on the miracles of modern medicine.
September 28 — Bad Math Baltimore— Paul Jacob adds two and two together.
September 27 — A Gun with His Name On It — Paul Jacob on Trump’s odd predicament.
September 26 — The California Experiment — Paul Jacob anticipates the outcomes of Governor Newsom’s gruesome new imposition.
September 25 — Downshifting Before the Cliff — Paul Jacob on what the chief lemmings tell the under-lemmings about the mandated mad rush.
From the pages of ThisIsCommonSense.org:
September 15 — Must Known Musk — Paul Jacob on freedom of speech and of the press in social media.
September 14 — Conservatorships Now! — Paul Jacob on the party of principle’s perfectly practical proposal.
September 13 — Swimming Against the Swamp — Paul Jacob on standing up for what you believe in — in politics.
September 12 — Balking at the Ban — Paul Jacob on fallout from the New Mexico Governor’s temporary gun-ban “public health” measure.
September 11 — Will We Comply? — Paul Jacob on the return of 2020’s annoying COVID duo, Fauci and Trump.
From the pages of ThisIsCommonSense.org to your ears:
September 1 — Publish and Not Perish — Paul Jacob on the most pointless of all government “intellectual property” crackdowns.
August 31 — Don’t Tread on Jaiden — Paul Jacob on flunking the public school authorities who were triggered by a flag patch.
August 30 — The Chinese Biolab in California — Paul Jacob on a somewhat disturbing news story.
August 29 — Shrink Shrank Shrunk — Paul Jacob on the necessity of private property rights and the criminalizing of theft.
August 28 — Bashing Climate Change — Paul Jacob on fossil fuels as a boon to fighting climate change.
Paul Jacob covers Vivek's foreign policy quasi-gaffe, and four other stories from the pages of ThisIsCommonSense.org.
Don't worry: no actual doggos were sent back to any pound. It's a metaphor. A metaphor for major corporate news media. They aren't fulfilling their watchdog roles any longer. Send them to the pound!
From the pages of ThisIsCommonSense.org, Paul Jacob and Timothy Virkkala discuss five stories that even have some hope in them:
August 11 — Outlawed But Unmoved — Paul Jacob retells the true tale of an unlicensed mover who shook things up.
August 10 — Students Strike Back — Paul Jacob cheers on the fight against socialist college administrators.
August 9 — Donors Don’t Donate Their Privacy — Paul Jacob looks at a legislative effort in one state, and its merits for all other states.
August 8 —Time to Slap Grabby Hands — Paul Jacob applauds congressional action on civil asset forfeiture.
August 7 — Big-Gov-Google-Plex — Paul Jacob on suit-slapping the social media censors.
At the beginning of the current administration, the movie to think about was THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. Now it's WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S.
Paul Jacob discusses the big stories of the week, as they've appeared at ThisIsCommonSense.org.
From ThisIsCommonSense.org:
July 28 — “You in Your Whiteness” — Paul Jacob on Canada’s continuing cultural decay.
July 27 — Not Having It — Paul Jacob on the curious (in)justice in the Hunter Biden case.
July 26 — Won’t Come A-Knockin’ — Paul Jacob on the latest in IRS messaging.
July 25 — BBC Apologizes, Bankers Squirm — Paul Jacob on the latest example of woke corporations dividing society.
July 24 — Truth, Compassion & Forbearance — Paul Jacob doffs his hat on a sad anniversary.
From the pages of ThisIsCommonSense.org:
July 21 — Counterintuitive? — Paul Jacob on newfound success in preventing success.
July 20 — Big Biz-Big China Alliance — Paul Jacob on corporations that collaborate with totalitarians abroad to persecute the innocent.
July 19 — Haunted by the Specter of Mao — Paul Jacob finds the spook in Americans’ heads.
July 18 — Bless You, John Kerry — Paul Jacob wrings out his handkerchief and irons out his . . . ironies.
July 17, 2023 — Austerity Theater — Paul Jacob on something worse than hypocrisy run (biked) rampant.
What was the rationale for Chinese re-actions to — and actions about — the new disease they let out of Wuhan?
Paul Jacob has a theory, and it's backed up by a lot of evidence. But don't expect major, corporate media news sources to cover it. Expect to get it at ThisIsCommonSense.org.
This week's stories:
July 14, 2023 — Infected by Politics — Paul Jacob on yet more evidence for the Lab Leak Theory of SARS-CoV-2 origins.
July 13, 2023 — The Sin of Skin Color — another victim of educators’ racist anti-racism cult.
July 12, 2023 — The Bigger Boycott Before Bud Light — Paul Jacob adds up a sportswriter’s telling numbers.
July 11, 2023 — Not Just a Border-Line Case — who is coming to America through a porous southern border.
July 10, 2023 — First Amendment: Irrelevant? — a look at the excuses for, and then the frank defenses of, censorship.
From Independence Day through the China threat to the judiciary getting censorship and racial discrimination right — with a nod to Joan of Arc, too — Paul Jacob covers the big stories that appeared in the first week of July 2023:
July 7, 2023 — Thomas & Thomas — Paul Jacob on the key problem with relying upon racism to explain different statistical results among the races.
July 6, 2023 — Censors Cancelled — Paul Jacob on the latest in the case against social media thought suppression.
July 5, 2023 — China’s Many Rushdies — Paul Jacob on another Chinazi crackdown.
July 4, 2023 — A Declaration — Paul Jacob clarifies where we stand, with decent respect and some prudence.
July 3, 2023 — Two Days & 50 Years — Paul Jacob celebrates a choice of celebrations.
Our betters in Washington and in the State Capitol buildings often pat each other on the back, calling each other "experts" on this or that. But Paul Jacob has a judgment from experience.
See ThisIsCommonSense.org:
June 30 — Affirmative Action Disaffirmed — Paul Jacob on the college discrimination case.
June 29 — Taken for Billions and Billions — Paul Jacob on why the lost loot.
June 28 — A Simulacrum of Solace — Paul Jacob on the new era of politics.
June 27 — Term Limits for Thee — Paul Jacob on the permutations of power.
June 26 — High Court Too Busy — Paul Jacob laments the latest on the degradation of free speech and freedom of contract rights.
And on Rumble: https://rumble.com/v2xdzve-theyre-experts-in-nothing.html
The big stories of the week from the pages of ThisIsCommonSense.org.
June 23 — Dictators on Parade — Paul Jacob on what’s in a name.
June 22 — The Precedentedness of It All — Paul Jacob on what the federal government lacks.
June 21 — Google Can’t Have That — Paul Jacob on the American habit of censorship.
June 20 — Wannabe Dictator — Paul Jacob on the Tyrant Who Must Not Be Named.
June 19 — Freedom Festival — Paul Jacob on a celebration for the ages … and for all.
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