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) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sun, 19 May 2013 04:00:22 GMT Sun, 19 May 2013 04:00:22 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ One of the more popular memes of our time has it that “the left” is “pro-science” while “the right” is hide-bound, troglodytically “anti-science.” You can imbibe the notion... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2013/05/19/beyond-the-gloatfest-n1600476 f1f556da-e21a-45c4-b196-dda12017c798 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:00:22 GMT You don’t need an explanation. These aren’t the partisan political abuses you’re looking for. Move along. It was all a big mistake. An unfortunate, accidental error. And “what difference... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2013/05/12/inappropriate-rights-violations-in-obamas-democracy-n1593142 fc15ff78-b02a-4057-bc20-3cf113a2bd5a Sun, 12 May 2013 04:00:13 GMT Symbols are not identical to the things they symbolize. A nation’s flag is not the same thing as the nation itself. A star on the map representing a capital city is not actually the dirt and grass and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2013/05/05/the-significance-of-persistent-guantanamo-n1587356 5f08610a-1da1-4c61-9426-abaf9d9a6fa1 Sun, 05 May 2013 04:00:49 GMT Our dysfunctional and surly Congress magically came together, last week, skipping across the political minefield of the sequester. Days earlier, the Obama Administration had announced a cut of air traffic... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2013/04/28/thirtythree-billion-balloons-in-a-strange-land-n1580754 500b920c-7f94-4a4a-bab9-5d0cbbcb2a0a Sun, 28 Apr 2013 04:00:06 GMT Vancouver, Washington is in one way just like Washington, D.C. . . . or anywhere else: Issues of “who gets to decide” and “out-of-control government” enliven both burgs. I live near D.C. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2013/04/20/when-in-doubt-try-a-little-democracy-n1574038 92aad768-2432-4882-8526-ef0090b02939 Sat, 20 Apr 2013 04:00:12 GMT Republicans in Arkansas, Missouri and Montana are trying to gut the term limits laws passed by voters in those states. Wait, that's not quite exactly accurate. Most Republicans in Arkansas, Missouri and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2013/04/14/a-different-path-toward-limited-terms-n1567166 2429b318-f228-4a65-9739-c55e01134fb7 Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:01:50 GMT As politically minded Americans still debate the meaning of, and proper response to, the Sandy Hooks massacre — and as politicians trot out old gun control programs utterly orthogonal to both public-space... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2013/04/07/chicago-baquba-and-a-massacre-near-you-n1560294 f270e808-3120-4387-b6a0-4d5ad95291fd Sun, 07 Apr 2013 04:00:10 GMT Shall we use reason in debating and deciding our laws? Or better to employ only our emotion? According to much of Washington officialdom (and media) the answer is: emotion. “I want to make sure... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2013/03/31/obamas-bloody-shirt-n1553659 ad2f23a1-bd60-430e-bbd3-abdc744cbc73 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 04:00:14 GMT Since the dawning of Obama Nation in 2008, Republicans have made significant gains at the state level — historic victories in 2010, and even small gains made last year, which at the federal level was a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2013/03/24/selfwrecking-pols-take-public-out-of-republican-n1547465 ec30ca09-3569-4228-af57-f0e0c9eb19d0 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:00:33 GMT There are needs and there are wants. And then there are priorities. A crippled child or a victim of crime has needs, while no doubt some people fervently want a bike path built or a brand new sports... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2013/03/17/subverting-democracy-to-subsidize-billionaires-n1536469 33a95390-9f36-404f-b776-5e5167744cb8 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 04:00:52 GMT Last week, Rand Paul, the junior U.S. Senator from Kentucky, managed to squeeze an answer out of the nation’s highest ups. In constipated Washington, it sure wasn’t easy. Only via a 13-hour... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2013/03/10/its-not-about-drones-n1530024 dd12fb4f-9fa8-4de1-871c-56dd702c4dea Sun, 10 Mar 2013 05:00:28 GMT When I was a kid, my parents made pancakes in various shapes: Clowns, wagons, Mickey Mouse. My mother may have made a gun-shaped pancake for me once. If not, certainly my father did. According to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2013/03/03/a-gun-out-of-a-mountain-out-of-a-molehill-n1524716 77c04872-7024-4eee-aa98-91b838e82d1b Sun, 03 Mar 2013 05:00:44 GMT Last week, I sat through four excruciating hours of legislative hearings before the Ways and Means Committee of Maryland’s House of Delegates. I was waiting to testify on behalf of Citizens in Charge... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2013/02/24/the-free-state-speaks-n1519074 c787def7-15e1-48df-a14c-b6f667afc5e9 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 05:00:10 GMT February 17, 2013 The U.S. President wants to up the national minimum wage to $9 per hour. How daring. Such pushes to increase the legal minimum wage often succeed. There’s no mystery why. Most... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2013/02/17/barack-obama-and-the-teachable-wage-n1514360 0392d54f-0437-4327-b22f-6b2cea96c9ec Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:57:21 GMT February 10, 2013 “It will begin. It will last ten years. It will be good for the economy. It will be very helpful,” anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist said recently. The “it” he refers to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulJacob/2013/02/10/the-firstrate-idiots-behind-the-new-secondrate-power-n1509093 8892bb7e-24d3-4509-bcb2-457cb618642b Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:00:53 GMT