Common Folk Using Common Sense

Tuesday, May 20, former commodity’s trader Michael Masters testified in front of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security about the primary cause of high commodity prices: speculators. You likely won’t see this in the Wall Street Journal. Here is the link to his testimony: hsgac.senate.govpublic Good morning and thank you, Mr. Chairman and Members of [...]

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Most of the oil, and more than 40% of the natural gas, on government land is off limits to drilling. There are huge deposits of energy-rich resources in the US, much on government land, and the very same government will not allow drilling to bring those resources to the surface. But the government wants to [...]

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Hat tip to Little Green Footballs: Found at Dunkin Donuts’ Breakfast Choices: Ah, the perky Rachael Ray, official spokesperson for Dunkin’ Donuts, is wearing a über-fashionable keffiyeh. In a world of fuzzy kittens and colorful rainbows the keffiyeh is a traditional headdress of Arab men, made of a square of cloth (“scarf”), usually cotton, folded [...]

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Hat tip to Williams: I am a big fan of Houston. It has low taxes, cheap housing, few regulations, and it is far more healthy– spiritually-speaking– than any other city of its size. It’s got a lot of random quirks and interesting mom-and-pop stores and restaurants, despite what you might think after driving through on [...]

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Many of you are planning to vote for either Hillary or Barack simply because they’ve promised to give you “free” healthcare – or more aptly put, healthcare paid for by your friends and neighbors. And many of you will gleefully point to Canada as a shining example of how healthcare in the US should be [...]

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As found at BBspot: Which OS are You? I really liked the final question: Will the answers to these questions really help you determine my personality? No, it’s entirely random. I believe everything on BBspot. It doesn’t really matter now does it? If I end up Windows ME someone is going to be hurting. Hey [...]

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From the Village Soup: Legislature preserves nonexistent $71,000 job. Patrick Dostie, the state’s nuclear safety inspector, has been coming to work every day to a job he’s held since 1989 – even though the position was eliminated in 2005 by the Legislature. Lawmakers were set again this year to eliminate the job, along with the [...]

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Hat tip to the Conservative Scalawag: From FOX News: Police identified the gunman responsible for shooting three people at a Los Angeles church festival as 33-year-old Fernando Diaz, Jr., FOX News confirmed on Sunday. Diaz opened fire at the St. John Baptist de la Salle Roman Catholic parish shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday, wounding three [...]

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Hat tip to the Conservative Scalawag: From Ocala.com: On Thursday night, a would-be robber thought he had an easy target and showed his pistol. What he didn’t know was that businessman Leslie Morris had a gun too. Morris pulled his Cal-Tech 9mm handgun first, and the robber ran away. Now Ocala police are looking for [...]

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Found across the internet, no idea of the original: The Mozambique Drill (the ubiquitous “2 in the body, 1 in the head”) is a long-time drill of Gunsite graduates. The rumor is that the term was first discussed by Jeff Cooper in an article in his “Commentaries,” Vol. 1, No. 1, June 1994, which is [...]

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Campaigning in the Pacific Northwest, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, R-Ariz., broke sharply from the Bush administration on climate change, calling for urgent steps to confront its threat and saying that as president he “will not shirk the mantle of leadership” on the issue. In an implicit rebuke to the Bush administration, McCain said at [...]

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“This election, the decision will be between which mommy seems less naggy.” – Melissa Clouthier Wow, that just about sum it up nicely, and I agree wholeheartedly. Thank you Melissa. —————————– “War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that [...]

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From FOX News: Sen. Ted Kennedy had a good night sleep and his condition appeared to be improving Sunday as his friends, family and colleagues congregated around him after two apparent seizures sent him to a Boston hospital. Kennedy, 76, did not suffer a stroke and “is not in any immediate danger,” said Dr. Larry [...]

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Hat tip to John Hardin: From the East Tennessean: It has become harder for students to imagine themselves completely safe on their college campuses because of the recent school shootings across the country. The one-year anniversary of the shooting at Virginia Tech is at hand and images of the Northern Illinois shooting still fresh in [...]

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