Common Folk Using Common Sense

Said by Doctor Zero: The Declaration of Independence states that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The American understanding of democracy does not envision voters as slaves who enjoy the privilege of voting for a new master every few years. When the Declaration speaks of the right – and, later [...]

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From Rasmussen: Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% now oppose the plan. Only 16% now [...]

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90 days. That’s how long it’s been since General McChrystal asked for 40,000 more troops in Afghanistan. That’s how long the Commander In Chief, voted on by the people, has been sitting on his butt and making no decision. That’s how long US sailors, soldiers, airmen, and Marines, have been dying without the support necessary [...]

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Says Lee DeCovnick over at American Thinker: The Federal Government’s tidal wave of debt now exceeds $12 trillion dollars. We have plummeted an additional trillion dollars in the last 8 months. Twelve trillion is twelve followed by 12 zeros: 12,000,000,000,000 or 12 x 10^12 . 12 trillion eggs would weigh just over 13 million tons [...]

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Said Dr. Adrian Rogers, from “Ten Secrets for a Successful Family”: You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody [...]

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Mary Landrieu (D-LA) told the Senate she would vote yes to begin the debate. She didn’t do so because she believed government-run healthcare either demands to be debated nor needs to be silenced. She did so only because, under the cover of darkness, Senate Crime Boss Harry Reid (D-NV) stuck in a 7-page section that [...]

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Or so says Reverend Jesse Jackson: The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill. “We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.” The remark [...]

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Before this weekend’s vote on the Senate $2.5 trillion health bill, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, offered an impassioned plea for senators to stand with the American people by saying no to a Washington takeover of Americans’ health care system. But to no avail. Here are his numbers. These numbers are facts. They are indisputable, no [...]

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From Andrew Napolitano at Reason.com (emphasis mine): Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn’t care about the Constitution, it doesn’t care about your inalienable rights. If this health care bill becomes law, America, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it, and privacy as you have enjoyed it will [...]

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Via FOX News: More than $98 billion in taxpayer dollars spent by government agencies was wasted, much of it on questionable claims for tax credits and Medicare benefits, representing an increase of $26 billion from the previous year. In all, about 5 percent of spending in federal programs in fiscal year 2009 was improper, according [...]

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November 19 is National Ammo Day. It is a nationwide BUYcott of ammunition. You buy ammunition. 100 Rounds a person. The goals of Ammo Day: The goal of National Ammo Day is to empty the ammunition from the shelves of your local gun store, sporting goods, or hardware store and put that ammunition in the [...]

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From FOX News: Sarah Palin is no normal politician, and at the Associated Press, apparently “Going Rogue” is no normal book. When the former Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor wrote her autobiography, the AP found a copy before its release date and assigned 11 people to fact check all 432 pages. Reviewing [...]

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The amount of currency currently in circulation has doubled over the last year. To put it another way, there are twice as many $20 bills in the US today as there were last year. But since the value of all those $20 bills has not doubled, the fact that there are twice the number of [...]

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Says the Canada Free Press: No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn’t perform any official duties. But this hasn’t deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great [...]

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