Paul Jacob is a Senior Advisor at The Sam Adams Alliance, a Townhall.com member group. His daily Common Sense commentary appears on the Web, via e-mail, and on radio stations across America. For most of the last decade, Jacob was the term limits movement's leading voice, running U.S. Term Limits, the nation's largest term limits group. Paul continues to serve on the group's board of directors and as a senior fellow. Paul has appeared on CNN's "Inside Politics," NBC's "Today Show," MSNBC's "Equal Time" and ABC's "Nightline." His commentary has appeared in newspapers including USA Today, The New York Daily News, Roll Call, The Washington Times, and The Chicago Tribune. In 1996, Paul was named "a rising star in politics" by Campaigns & Elections magazine. He holds the Society for Individual Liberty's "Phoenix Award" for "contributions to the advancement of liberty in America," and has been dubbed one of "The Best and the Rightest" by National Journal. Paul also serves as the founder and president of Citizens in Charge, a group committed to expanding and protecting citizens' initiative and referendum rights, and sits on the advisory boards of the Initiative and Referendum Institute and the Illinois Taxpayer Education Foundation. He lives with his wife Rhonda and their three children in Woodbridge, Virginia. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:00:15 GMT Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:00:15 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Last week, rare cheers were heard for a Supreme Court ruling. The High Court, in D.C. v. Heller, overturned the District of Columbia's gun ban, upholding the Second Amendment. But don't miss another decision, handed... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2008/06/29/rights_roulette 5ea6dab8-46d2-4b2f-ab6a-e9635f39c2a7 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:00:15 GMT Do you ever tire of hearing certain words? This election season, I've grown pretty sick of "change" - you may have reached that point months ago. That doesn't mean we don't want change. I demand it; you probably do... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2008/06/22/decrease_your_vocabulary b8d51f82-e81f-47ea-8c8e-834a6dda5ce3 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:00:35 GMT I used to wonder what it was like to live in West Berlin during the dark, chill days of the Cold War - so close to the east side of the city, but cordoned off from it by walls and barbed wire and twitchy uniformed men... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2008/06/15/east_berlin,_d_c 0ecd0b8c-97f3-4b4b-999b-84081c9d4541 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:00:09 GMT When it comes to those serving us ever so humbly in public office, how should they be chosen? It's a simple question. And I'm not alluding to the Democrats' presidential nominating process. By the people? Under the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2008/06/08/the_rule_of_law_vs_the_rule_of_land 935fe75f-93ce-4a16-9637-0de52b0a8671 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:00:13 GMT Sometimes courts make the right decision. Really. It happens. But it didn't happen this past week in Oklahoma. Oh, we should probably be glad it's not another petition with hundreds of thousands of voter signatures... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2008/06/01/another_ok_court_decision 866e1a5a-c198-44a7-83dd-be87d15ca58f Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:56 GMT The Sichuan earthquake saddens and terrifies. The extent of the devastation is hard to grasp. One aid worker put it this way: "The enormity of it is far bigger than anything I have seen before." That word, enormity,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2008/05/25/will_increasing_wealth_spur_moral_progress_in_china 4fc4d3f2-a51e-49b5-a80b-8fb65dcab19f Sun, 25 May 2008 04:00:47 GMT Baseball is life. One minute you're up; the next you're down. I know this. You know this. Boy, does Christopher Ratte know it. And we all know that taking your kids to a ballgame is the quintessential American rite... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2008/05/18/a_shutout_of_common_sense 11fb183a-a542-458e-b6e5-2257b664ec7f Sun, 18 May 2008 04:00:28 GMT The original metaphor was the pig. You could say, in the beginning was the pig. And the pig was with the politicians. And, boy, did the politicians pig out. I refer, of course, to pork-barrel politics . . . that is,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2008/05/11/earmarked_pork,_hard_and_soft c5fdbeb9-f89c-4bcd-9d22-2c2e6fc025c5 Sun, 11 May 2008 04:00:36 GMT Art imitates life. Then life imitates art. Thus, the emblematic movie, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, echoes today in Michigan. The movie is about good citizens standing up to a corrupt political machine. Which is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2008/05/04/political_rights,_and_wrongs 379e826b-7e2f-4c8e-aa78-34d56dde3c47 Sun, 04 May 2008 04:00:34 GMT The trouble with making government the solution for our medical system's failures is that government is without a doubt the chief cause of those failures. But I guess "government" isn't a good enough name for the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2008/04/27/naming_the_cause_of_medicines_failures cb6d81b4-e188-4447-b091-7814861019b5 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:00:06 GMT I like alluding to the classics. When I'm not referencing the great poets and novelists, I try to sneak in books I'm certain actually to have read. Like "The Little Engine That Could." Great story. Inspiring. A lesson... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2008/04/20/the_little_party_that_could d66de6b8-1cbc-4632-a9e9-a74ddf1e1943 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:00:02 GMT Politics, we're told, is sneaking its pointed little head into the Olympic Games. Oh, my! Next we'll discover there is gambling going on in Las Vegas. Last week, when Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2008/04/13/dont_go,_president_bush,_dont_go 1d1c73ed-2a36-428b-afc4-80bce03a1fae Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT Voltaire is credited with the statement: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Freedom and democracy necessarily rest upon this sentiment, an attitude that today we find... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2008/04/06/gypsies,_tramps_and_thieves d9697d2d-0d4c-4661-8cb7-696b8f4514d9 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:02:03 GMT Is it possible? Could I have downplayed the benefits of term limits all these years? I have been advocating and defending the term limit idea for such a long time that it seems unlikely I could have misjudged it by... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2008/03/30/term_limits_and_presidential_politics 71274b53-6c1e-47dd-9b26-d2b9210adf5f Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:00:16 GMT To history's pile of outrageous and incomprehensible court decisions Missouri's Supreme Court just added yet another whopper. Last Tuesday the court handed down a decision so off-base that it leaves nearly everyone -... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2008/03/23/power_-_unlimited_and_practically_absolute 6bdd9f9d-221a-46f3-a691-12c8dd3136ae Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:00:52 GMT