Common Folk Using Common Sense

(unabashedly stolen from TheFiringLine Forums) You start your day selecting what clothes do not print. You only use a public restroom if you can get the stall that is at the far end against the wall. You don’t mind stopping to help people stranded on the road. If you ever asked your significant other “does [...]

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From the Washington Post: Do not think of Brad Hutchins‘s new store, the Kilted Nation, as a novelty shop, but rather as a vision of America without pants. One nation, under kilts, where virile, skirt-wearing fellows can walk the streets in confidence and comfort, liberated from the stuffy constraints of their bifurcated garments. The first [...]

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From Spiegel Online: The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of methane a year — equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey. Norway is concerned that its national animal, the moose, is [...]

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In honor of the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “March on Washington” for civil rights, this blog is joining with other gun rights groups to declare today, August 28, “National Exercise Your Rights Day.” From FirearmsCoalition.org: Reverend Jesse Jackson is calling on citizens to exercise their First Amendment rights by participating in anti-gun/anti-violence [...]

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From the AP via 11Alive.com: Standing erect and answering questions with soft, short responses, NFL star Michael Vick pleaded guilty Monday to a federal dogfighting charge and awaited a Dec. 10 sentencing date that could send him to prison. The plea by the suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback was accepted by U.S. District Judge Henry E. [...]

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The team from Warner Robins, GA, won the Little League World Series title Sunday. From the AP via 11Alive.com: Dalton Carriker couldn’t feel his legs as he rounded the bases. His home run in the bottom of the eighth had just given Warner Robins, Ga., a thrilling 3-2 victory over Tokyo to win the Little [...]

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From The New York Times: Eliezer Greer walked out of the Yeshiva of New Haven at dusk on Tuesday armed with a walkie-talkie in his hand and a loaded pistol at his side. Alfred Brooks Jr., 58, a former marine, was checking the batteries in his flashlight. Mr. Greer, 27, handed him the walkie-talkie. Good [...]

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From pinknews.co.uk: Ever the elusive two-time Oscar winner, Jodie Foster granted a rare one on one interview to More Magazine. The 44-year-old actress is making the rounds to promote her latest strong-willed woman role in the film, The Brave One. When talk turned to gun control, a subject many movie critics will likely tackle in [...]

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From the Center for Individual Freedom is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with the mission to protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution: By now, any informed American is familiar with Dr. John R. Lott, Jr.’s famous axiom of “More Guns, Less Crime.” In other words, American jurisdictions that allow [...]

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From the Associated Press via Newsday.com: Mayor Mark Mallory is refusing to fire a starter pistol to kick off an upcoming road race, saying he doesn’t like the gun‘s symbolism in a city that set a record for homicides last year. Mallory said he’ll blow a whistle at Saturday’s Rhythm Race 5K instead. A pistol [...]

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From MSNBC.com: In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is [...]

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I received a letter from Presidential candidate Fred Thompson. In the first four short paragraphs he makes some statements like “giving this a lot of thought”, “conservative principles”, “defending our values”, etc. But in the fifth paragraph he states his questions to America: Will we fight terrorism or run away? Will we secure America’s borders? [...]

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From AFP via Breitbart: Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to a dogfighting ring, according to a statement from his attorney. In the statement by attorney Billy Martin, Vick agreed to plead guilty and accept a plea deal and will “accept full responsibility for his actions and the mistakes [...]

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Police say that sometime after 3 a.m. Monday, two men broke into the Petits’ Sorghum Mill Drive home. They brutally beat Dr. William Petit Jr. and tied him up in the basement, then held the family hostage for hours. Shortly after 9 a.m., one of the men drove Dr. Petit’s wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, to a [...]

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From MSNBC: A Roman Catholic Bishop in the Netherlands has proposed people of all faiths refer to God as Allah to foster understanding, stoking an already heated debate on religious tolerance in a country with one million Muslims. “Allah is a very beautiful word for God. Shouldn’t we all say that from now on we [...]

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