Common Folk Using Common Sense

From Bloomberg: Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steven Ballmer said the world’s largest software company would move some employees offshore if Congress enacts President Barack Obama’s plans to impose higher taxes on U.S. companies’ foreign profits. “It makes U.S. jobs more expensive,” Ballmer said in an interview. “We’re better off taking lots of people and [...]

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Found at The Hill: Sarah Palin has begun to get on the nerves of Republican senators who say the former GOP vice presidential nominee is taking her own White House aspirations entirely too seriously. Uh, no, you limp-wristed Republican senators. Sarah Palin is NOT taking her White House aspirations entirely too seriously. If there were [...]

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Via USA TODAY: The recession is driving the safety net of government benefits to a historic high, as one of every six dollars of Americans’ income is now coming in the form of a federal or state check or voucher. Benefits, such as Social Security, food stamps, unemployment insurance and health care, accounted for 16.2% [...]

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From Bloomberg News on 03/17/09: President Barack Obama’s decision to place czars above Cabinet-level agencies presents dangers beyond confusion over who’s in charge and an organizational chart that looks like pasta carbonara. There’s also the potential for a constitutional crisis. Obama’s czars, the most ever appointed by an administration, are likely to have the authority [...]

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Since Obama, the Anointed One, may end up either taking my guns away, or severely limiting how I carry it, or severely limiting my ammo, I’m considering saving up some money and getting one of these: Spread The Word:

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“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” – Mark Twain Spread The Word:

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From NewsBusters is this story of Newsweek editor Evan Thomas chatting with MSNBC‘s Chris Matthews on “Hardball”. Matthews started the love-fest: “The question now is whether the President we elected and spoke for us so grandly yesterday can carry out the great vision he gave us and to the world. If he can, he’ll be [...]

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First from The Politico: The White House moved Friday to try to tamp down a swirling controversy over a 2001 speech in which Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor suggested that Hispanic women make better judges than white men. “I’m sure she would have restated it,” President Barack Obama said in an interview with NBC News, [...]

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An abortion doctor was gunned down at his church. The media went into overdrive telling us the terrible story about how some “right wing militia extremist” gunned down a doctor simply because he performed late-term abortions. Oh, the absolute horror. Almost immediately Our Holy President offered this statement: I am shocked and outraged by the [...]

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The Normandy Landings were the first operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, also known as Operation Neptune and Operation Overlord, during World War II. The landings commenced on June 6, 1944 (D-Day). By the end of 11 June, 326,547 troops, 54,186 vehicles and 104,428 tons of supplies had been landed on the beaches. The [...]

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Found at Bloomberg: A Chicago ordinance banning handguns and automatic weapons within city limits was upheld by a U.S. Court of Appeals panel, which rejected a challenge by the National Rifle Association. The unanimous three-judge panel ruled today that a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year [District of Columbia v. Heller], which recognized an individual [...]

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By Herman Cain: The rhetoric is confusing but the facts are not. The president and the Democrats are inflating, distorting and ignoring many of the verifiable facts about health care to increase public support for a total government takeover of our health care system. In other words, they are taking advantage of the public’s health [...]

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From Boortz: Our president, Barack Hussein Obama (Hey … now he’s proud of his middle name, so I can use it, right?) Has decided he needs a Pay Czar. The White House says that this person, one Kenneth Feinberg, will actually be called the “Special Master for Compensation.” He is going to decide just how [...]

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By Herman Cain: The rhetoric is confusing but the facts are not. The president and the Democrats are inflating, distorting and ignoring many of the verifiable facts about health care to increase public support for a total government takeover of our health care system. In other words, they are taking advantage of the public’s health [...]

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From Stanislav Mishin, as printed in Russia’s Pravda: It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people. I use the word “sheeple” too. It’s a [...]

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