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, 27 Dec 2009 05:00:22 GMT Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:00:22 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez received enthusiastic applause (and some nervous laughter) at the Copenhagen climate conference. On the podium, he referenced the fact that the president of the United States had... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/12/27/the_devil_in_a_red_tie a4957293-6609-4814-8e79-accf1302c932 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:00:22 GMT It's snowing People express this simple fact with markedly different emphasis and emotion. With joy, my 10-year old screeches it at the top of her lungs. My wife mutters it as if an invading army had just crossed the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/12/20/wholl_stop_the_snow 802bf083-30a3-41df-ad6b-3ca2f914f277 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:00:50 GMT Our out-of-touch and out-of-control federal government generates most of our political grumblings. Washington is the government furthest away, and takes the biggest bite out of our wallets — to simultaneously... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/12/13/missouris_arresting_developments ee4a5015-e199-4b52-858d-44a134691e24 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT We’re quickly approaching the season of giving, as it is often put, so it’s well worth considering the uncomfortable truth that, for some people, it’s always the season of taking. And I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/12/06/pervasive_legal_plunder 0d12c1aa-ed53-4467-bd8d-70b43c09dbd5 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:00:51 GMT An ancient saying has it that “gold doesn’t stink.” A modern corollary might be: “Investors do.” Well, at least I’ve caught a whiff of something: A short-term fall in the price of gold,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/11/29/why_we_want_gold_to_fail 4321879c-7f0c-4506-9ee0-85ecd62ffc7f Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:00:57 GMT Immediately, as the Senate takes up health care legislation, we receive the chief benefit of the proposal. Laughter is not only good for the soul, it’s good for the body, too. If we can’t laugh at the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/11/22/dear_fellow_guinea_pig f3828e6a-72fd-439b-83cc-633363b04274 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:00:20 GMT Strong-arm, power politics — how long does it take self-proclaimed “caring” folks to learn that such tactics cannot lead to their promised peaceful, loving utopia? New London, Connecticut, was... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/11/15/the_politics_of_government_usurpation,_post-kelo 1b98ed89-817e-44f8-ba42-f7cdb02b6204 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:00:42 GMT As long as I can remember, politicians have promised “jobs.” When not promising tangible “pork”-based jobs, most of these promises turn out to be the economic equivalent of the computer... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2009/11/08/chortlenomics c5a78de9-817d-44be-bfe4-0719b7070218 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:00:05 GMT 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