Common Folk Using Common Sense

Says Rasmussen: If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current batch of legislators. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again. Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure how they [...]

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From cnet News: Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind [...]

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Via CBS News: Section 431(a) of the bill says that the IRS must divulge taxpayer identity information, including the filing status, the modified adjusted gross income, the number of dependents, and “other information as is prescribed by” regulation. That information will be provided to the new Health Choices Commissioner and state health programs and used [...]

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Mary Jo Kopechne (July 26, 1940 – July 18, 1969) was an American teacher, secretary and political campaign specialist who died in a car accident on Chappaquiddick Island while being driven by United States Senator Ted Kennedy. On July 18, 1969, Kopechne attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island, off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, [...]

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The Detroit Free Press explains: … a $10-billion provision tucked deep inside thousands of pages of health care overhaul bills that could help the UAW‘s retiree health-care plan and other union-backed plans. It would see the government — at least temporarily — pay 80 cents on the dollar to corporate and union insurance plans for [...]

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Yahoo, via Michelle Malkin, reminds us: Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, letting the Libyan go home to die despite American pleas to show no mercy for the man responsible for the 1988 attack that killed 270 people. The White House declared it “deeply” regretted the Scottish decision as Abdel [...]

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Newsbusters tells us: On Tuesday, MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer fretted over health care reform protesters legally carrying guns: “A man at a pro-health care reform rally…wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip….there are questions about whether this has racial overtones….white people showing up with guns.” Go to Newsbusters to [...]

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Caroline Baum at Bloomberg News reminds us: Everyone makes a mistake or flubs a line when asked questions on the spot, including the president of the United States. We can overlook run-on sentences, subject and verb tense disagreement, even a memory lapse when it comes to facts and figures. The proliferation of Obama’s gaffes and [...]

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Says Dan Calabrese: In a devastating commentary in the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Scott Gottlieb – a practicing internist, former official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and currently a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute – demonstrated convincingly on Friday that President Obama simply doesn’t know very much about the practice of [...]

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From CBS News: CBS News has learned that up to 60,000 people have cancelled their AARP memberships since July 1, angered over the group’s position on health care. Elaine Guardiani has been with AARP for 14 years, and said, “I’m extremely disappointed in AARP.” Retired nurse Dale Anderson has 12 years with AARP and said, [...]

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Go to “the munchkin wrangler” and read the post “A Handy Guide To Political Outrage“. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. Do it now. Spread The Word:

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Says National Review Online: In the new GI Joe movie, Hollywood appears to have transformed an American hero into an A-Team for the United Nations. That’s because “GI Joe” is now an acronym for “Globally Integrated Joint Operating Entity” (or something like that). But the film’s marketers aren’t exactly trumpeting this fact, at least not [...]

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