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<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> The modal story of our time is a story about too much government.

2012-02-19T00:00:50-05:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul Jacob Congress finally acted in bipartisan fashion this past week, extending the 2 percent payroll tax cut through the rest of 2012. President Obama...07b24622-d0cc-4cec-8f0a-54e474b53463

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> A public system started to bring education to everybody now sets up special limits.

2012-02-12T09:24:35-05:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul Jacob &#147;No Child Left Behind.&#148; That&#146;s the stated policy of our nationalized, near-monopoly public school system. The slogan is...2c2ce291-235b-4609-8cbb-317f02d091a4

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> An overlooked factor in the next election.

2012-02-05T00:00:30-05:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul JacobIn election result after election result, poll after poll &mdash; whether Republican, Democrat or independent; male or female; black, white,...26a8b6ba-b18a-47d9-822c-54290603a221

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> Socrates' advice to President Obama: Follow the argument wherever it leads.

2012-01-29T08:45:20-05:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul Jacob&#147;Life,&#148; my parents often told me, &#147;isn&#146;t fair.&#148; But President Barack Obama isn't so negative: yes it can be...12feac41-58b1-4b49-9b7c-708a4b35ce32

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> Elementary notion: You shouldn't do everything you may do.

2012-01-22T00:00:32-05:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul JacobMore than a million Wisconsinites signed a petition circulated by Democrats to recall Republican Governor Scott Walker. Or, perhaps several folks...4a4689b9-b535-4529-94ea-a7ac5c242063

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> The experts have found themselves put in their place. We're all students now.

2012-01-15T14:43:26-05:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul Jacob Exceptions test the rule. Ron Paul is an exception. We might have to revise some rules. One rule in politics is: Don&#146;t obsess about...f1cf247f-94bb-409a-8e95-b21cdc1e95e5

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> Wish lists that require crimes to fill must be rejected.

2012-01-01T00:00:00-05:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul Jacob Promises, promises. Politicians love to make &#146;em. But who has to fulfill those promises, and how? The tendency to rely upon...ec2552fe-b9c2-42e7-bf5a-60ace5843e9d

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> As with street hustlers, so with Congress: The longer the show goes on, the more money you'll lose.

2011-12-18T00:00:35-05:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul Jacob There&#146;s a big difference between the U.S. Congress passing legislation and a hustler playing three-card Monte on a city street: No citizen...0864a288-4c9b-49a5-9a56-7c1285cfbadc

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> Is now the time for bigger infusions of the same old medicine?

2011-12-11T11:05:24-05:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul Jacob One hates to disagree with accomplished professionals. And yet it&#146;s obvious that the experts of this great Age of the Accredited...a7875847-e897-441a-997b-6c57327fe885

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> Junk science is one thing, and a bad thing. Then there's fake science. Fraud.

2011-12-04T00:00:23-05:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul Jacob Scientific theories cannot be confirmed, an eminent philosopher of science has argued; they can only be falsified. But facts can be...5a73f371-f903-48ab-8b63-f95133f4ab30

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> Sometimes the truth is more instructive than legend.

2011-11-27T00:00:23-05:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul Jacob Not everything we are taught in school is accurate. In school, as in the papers, when truth and legend vie with each other, too often the legend...5b174599-7639-4e56-8243-bfc802048356

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> Marx said class conflict arises from the modes of production. Well, the ultimate class conflict is between workers who produce and get paid from trade revenues, and those who work for government and get paid from taxes.

2011-11-20T11:26:18-05:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul Jacob Nothing speaks to the out-of-control nature of government more loudly and clearly than the lavish pension benefits promised to public employees....10d88b6a-20bc-4089-a301-ef8b39c11b53

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> It's hard to shake down all the businesses in your industry. But hey: The government is there to help.

2011-11-13T00:00:09-05:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul Jacob President Barack Obama is not a Muslim; he is not foreign-born; and he&#146;s not taxing Christmas! Glad we cleared that up. The...2d8d037e-af7d-4375-a889-497cef1fc635

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> Has the country gone mad?

2011-10-30T00:00:53-04:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul JacobHas the country gone mad? No need to answer; the question is rhetorical. (In other words, I know the answer, too.) According to the Bureau of...01e8e7fb-57d1-4d75-bc59-a8ac1e792000

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> Some common complaints reveal more about the complainer than about the object of grievance.

2011-10-23T00:00:06-04:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul Jacob While Californians recently celebrated the centennial of their state&#146;s full-bodied system of citizen initiative and referendum, the...ad07aea7-b7d2-4f5a-a8b6-2b316245642b

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> There's something special about politicians. That's why they should be made less special.

2011-10-16T00:00:09-04:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul Jacob My week began with a celebration: The centennial of California&#146;s initiative process. I wrote about it at Common Sense, the daily...d8224785-3344-4167-a217-5db8b305743a

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> Another upheaval of protest. Should it, too, be dismissed as "astroturf" and "partisan"?

2011-10-09T10:33:24-04:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul Jacob&#147;Rush Limbaugh&#146;s Occupy Wall St. Rant Proves The Protesters Are Winning,&#148; claims Politicususa.com, a blog boasting &#147;Real...e8e7fcc1-eccc-459e-b5a1-9f09c0147495

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> One problem with partisanship is surely the tendency to look at your opponents as the embodiment of pure evil.

2011-10-02T00:00:06-04:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul JacobAre Republicans mean-spirited, blood-thirsty, evil? Lawrence O&#146;Donnell thinks so. The host of &#147;The Last Word&#148; on MSNBC &mdash;...7c1d28d6-721c-46d9-98f9-95d58bd6a6b2

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> A republic is run by its people. Tell that to the folks in government.

2011-09-25T00:00:48-04:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul JacobWhat fools we were to revolt against King George! Instead of installing a constitutional republic with democratic checks on government, we...794e2864-55f4-45ec-839c-1f48d612599a

<a href='http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/'>Paul Jacob Column</a><br /> Who do you trust? For thinking people, that may not be the primary question.

2011-09-18T00:29:16-04:002012-02-23T09:07:24ZPaul JacobQuestion authority. Usually taken as advice to doubt, why not take the slogan literally? Whether you harbor niggly little suspicions or a big fat,...