Common Folk Using Common Sense

Wow, what a kerfluffle. First we learned that Rev. Jeremiah Wright was Barack Obama‘s spiritual advisor, and Obama’s book “Audacity of Hope” was inspired from one of Wright’s sermons. They’re close enough that Wright performed Obama’s wedding, and baptized his children. Then we discover that Rev. Wright is a hate-filled bigot. He claims that the [...]

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Hat tip to Little Green Footballs: STEP 1: As of April 23 there was a web page at the official Obama campaign site. It featured Hatem El-Hady as a “friend” (read: fundraiser) for Obama. Also on that page was a notation that one of El-Hady’s friends is none other than Michelle Obama. STEP 2: As [...]

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Found on the internet: The choice in the ’08 election. On one side, you have a choice between a witch who is a lawyer married to a lawyer and a lawyer who is married to a witch who is a lawyer. On the other side, you have a true war hero married to a hot [...]

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From the BBC: Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth. Mecca is the direction all Muslims face when they perform their daily prayers. The call was issued at a conference held in the Gulf state [...]

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From abc7chicago.com: Gun violence made it a deadly weekend on some of Chicago’s streets. Police Superintendent Jody Weis places the blame on too many guns and gangs. The victims have ranged in age from 12 to 65. The Chicago Police Department says it definitely has a plan. By ABC 7 News’ count, six shootings were [...]

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Oil is nearing $120 a barrel. Saudi Arabia is wanting to slow down production. Are you paying enough for gasoline yet? Are you angry yet? Are you willing to demanding some action from the government yet? Why aren’t we building any new nuclear power plants? Why aren’t we building any new oil refineries? Why aren’t [...]

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From the UK Times Online: From this month, pipers must adhere to strict volume limits or risk breaking European Union health and safety laws. Bands have been ordered to tone down or wear earplugs to limit noise exposure to 85 decibels. Typically, a pipe band played at full volume peaks at 122 decibels outdoors, noisier [...]

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From the Yakima Herald-Republic (Yakima, WA): A 20-year-old man shot himself in the groin early Sunday while trying to hide a shotgun down his pants, city police said. A news release did not describe the injury except to say that it was “serious.” The victim was being treated at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. His [...]

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From an absolutely accurate essay by George Will: Obama may be the fulfillment of modern liberalism. Explaining why many working-class voters are “bitter,” he said they “cling” to guns, religion and “antipathy to people who aren’t like them” because of “frustrations.” His implication was that their primitivism, superstition and bigotry are balm for resentments they [...]

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From the Communist Party USA’s website: At its quarterly national committee meeting this past weekend, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) called for a landslide in the November 4th elections to defeat John McCain and strengthening the Democratic Party majorities in Congress. With the undiminished role of the labor-led people’s movement, Webb predicted the outcome could [...]

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The tension at work is getting unbearable, so I decided to have lunch outside of the office Friday … at the firing range. Kept pulling left, especially at the end while doing head shots. Grrr. I feel much better now. The particulars: – Georgia Range & Guns, Forest Park (hey, at least they’re close) – [...]

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Scan from the River Cities Daily Tribune of Marble Falls, TX: The officer is holding a variant of the M4 assault rifle. The picture below shows what one should look like: In case you missed it, the officer in Marble Falls has her ammunition magazine, just forward of her extended finger, in backwards. Frankly I [...]

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Hat tip to Neal Boortz: “The Law” is an 1849 book by Frédéric Bastiat. It was published one year after the third French Revolution of 1848. The essay was influenced by John Locke’s “Second Treatise on Government” and in turn influenced Henry Hazlitt’s “Economics in One Lesson”. It is the work for which Bastiat is [...]

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Fighting For Liberty published a fascinating look at accidental deaths of children. Since there is very little that I could add or improve upon I’ll just reprint their entire post here: Estimated guns in the United States: 275 million (roughly). Estimated swimming pools in the United States: 2.5 million (roughly – according to Harvard Journal [...]

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From the NY Times: A coalition of mayors in favor of gun control, led by Michael R. Bloomberg of New York and Thomas M. Menino of Boston, said on Monday that it had reached a 10-point agreement with Wal-Mart, the country’s largest seller of guns, to track the sale of firearms more closely. The agreement [...]

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