Paul Jacob is president of Citizens in Charge, a non-profit, 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 the petition rights of Americans. "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 Jacobs fighting for it." 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, radio, and print opinion program, which reaches tens of thousands of e-mail subscribers and is aired daily by more than 125 radio stations nationwide. Paul writes a weekly column for Townhall.com that appears each Sunday. His writing has also 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. Paul has 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. Paul 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) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:03:51 GMT Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:03:51 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ On Tuesday, voters in Maine and Washington will face issues petitioned onto statewide ballots by citizens. Question 4 in Maine and Initiative-1033 in Washington would cap the yearly growth of government spending to no... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/11/01/spending_money_to_make_money 56ad9d75-3cdc-4408-8b95-bb1a1652d143 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:03:51 GMT The "innocent until proven guilty" concept is at the very heart of our legal system. Government ought not be able to exact punishment for a crime until proof has been established, beyond a reasonable doubt, by a jury of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/10/25/proven_guilty ef35b331-c3b7-4a52-95f0-2b2fda37d8b9 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:01:35 GMT President Obama and Congress are mighty generous. They're worried we citizens don't have enough money to go out and shop till we drop. They're specially concerned about grandpa and grandma. So, a check from the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/10/18/the_check_is_in_the_mail 8e9b23b6-f04e-4f12-a582-d5df1b6b7315 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:42:17 GMT Roman Polanski and Barack Obama: One is a rapist and the other awinner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Could any two men be more different? And yet they are similarly blessed - with a certain kind of attention.The moist... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/10/11/tribal_exceptionalism d4877085-997d-4132-866d-412b55174e9a Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:00:46 GMT America and the world face plenty of serious issues. Where to hold the 2016 Summer Olympics isn't one of them.I know this. You know this. Even most folks in Chicago understand. But the president of the United States doe http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/10/04/going_for_the_gold e9c15d78-f342-410b-9b6d-3e7692fc9eb5 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:00:08 GMT A South Carolina Congressman shouts "You lie!" at the president and theresult is predictable: A thousand discourses on incivility and thebreakdown of civilization and honor and . . . [ fill in the dang blank yourself http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/09/27/one_shout_of_you_lie_is_no_excuse_to_conjure_up_reforms_best_handled_with_a_simple_youve_got_to_be_kidding 89e93c8b-e62e-4447-9ad0-7f85d5189d24 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:00:25 GMT Smart people should rule the world.That, anyway, is what certain folks who consider themselves far smarter than you or me tend to think. These clever souls hang out with other brainy people, all of whom are very... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/09/20/the_loving_grip_of_the_wise_elite fb31aba3-00a7-4720-91c0-d79b61c40b8c Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:00:51 GMT New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has unveiled a new plan to reform New York's - and ultimately America's - elections.Bloomberg's proposal calls for creating a Democracy Index to assess the election administration... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/09/13/mayor_bloomberg_to_the_rescue a9030c12-b711-4d0b-b280-0a752b554deb Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:00:09 GMT This Thursday in a federal court in Washington state, U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle will, ahem, settle an important question. (Come on, who could resist?) The matter concerns Referendum 71, a petition to put the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/09/06/sign_up_for_harassment edef28d8-4d93-4e5f-b3b4-9e1f69493ca9 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:00:31 GMT The cortège goes on and on. As I write these words, mourners still proceed by the casket of Sen. Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy (D-Mass). Organizers have all but thrown out the schedule. Ceremonies drag on longer than planned.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/08/30/living_without___ 32d8896a-558c-4a33-85ec-60beee2b0eb5 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:00:22 GMT Boycotts are as American as apple pie . . . with whole wheat crust. Granted, the term boycott comes from Charles C. Boycott, an English land agent who got in a fracas with Irish tenant farmers over rents in 1880.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/08/23/boycotting_good_ideas 289abf9d-8fa3-496d-8ede-959d4a0290e0 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:00:14 GMT At her recent town hall meeting, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill discovered that, in addition to the rapidly growing budget deficit, there exists an even greater trust deficit. Flustered by a crowd that was clearly... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/08/16/you_don't_trust_me 510083e7-d14e-49c9-bf0a-5fabe680bd8f Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:00:04 GMT Picking your friends is an important part of life. Picking your enemies is an important part of politics. Americans who chose to attend town hall meetings this August to protest the many possible Utopias and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/08/09/the_people_as_the_new_opposition 23b23302-efe8-428a-a451-62d4b510cba5 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:00:24 GMT My wife and I disagree about some of the key end-of-life issues. When such morbid subjects arise, as they must and as they have with increasing frequency as the debate over medical care rages on, she remains adamant... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/08/02/the_ultimate_resting_place_of_socialized_medicine c424cf33-2766-4f9c-a6f9-72184eac79ea Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:00:24 GMT State Senator Randy Brogdon is running for the position of Oklahoma governor. A principled, issues-oriented candidate, he naturally has big plans for his state. But one of his most interesting ambitions is this: To join... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/07/26/the_states_and_the_people_vs_the_us_of_centralization c7627987-d1c7-46e6-a3b4-30fd05b0cb6a Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:00:01 GMT