Common Folk Using Common Sense

I must have been a good boy this year, because Santa brought me a brand new Smith & Wesson 642 with an extended Crimson Trace Lasergrip. It’s aluminum and steel, weighing less than a pound, and carries 5 rounds of .38 Special +P ammunition. I added a Bianchi Model 100 IWB holster and a Galco [...]

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Under Social Security, lower and middle class individuals are forced to pay a significant portion of their gross income, around 12%, for the alleged purpose of securing their retirement. That money is not saved or invested, but transferred directly to the program’s current beneficiaries with the “promise” that when current taxpayers get old, the income [...]

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From Lawrence Solomon at the Financial Post: All told, (U.K. scientist and Green Party activist William) Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like [...]

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From The Politico: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) concedes that Republican senators won’t be able to stop Democratic health care reform legislation from passing the Senate before Christmas. “We will fight until the last vote,” McCain told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace. “We owe that to our constituents, because we must do everything – we [...]

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From Rasmussen: Running under the Tea Party brand may be better in congressional races than being a Republican. In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided. [...]

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Via Reuters: Hopefully any new plan will have a better ROI than the current stimulus package. Economic analyst Ed Yardeni runs the numbers: “The Obama Administration is touting that their stimulus program has saved or created 640,329 jobs since it was enacted back in February through the end of October. This number is updated and [...]

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From Conspirology.com: Using a highly reliable measuring system know as the five senses, human beings in their billions have come to the conclusion, that the only certainty about the weather on planet earth, is that it keeps on changing in very strange ways. Some times hot, sometimes cold, sometimes wet, sometimes dry. This mind blowing [...]

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Via The Wall Street Journal: Officials gather in Copenhagen this week for an international climate summit, but business leaders are focusing even more on Washington, where the Obama administration is expected as early as Monday to formally declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant. An “endangerment” finding by the Environmental Protection Agency could pave the way [...]

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Says Michael Goodwin: Perhaps it was inevitable. A man who voted “present” 130 times in the Illinois Legislature couldn’t possibly morph into a savvy and decisive leader of the free world in such a short time. Yet even the pessimists among us are alarmed by the cloud of uncertainty and confusion hanging over the White [...]

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On the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941, the Japanese navy attacked the United States’ naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack consisted of two aerial attack waves totaling 353 aircraft, launched from six Japanese aircraft carriers. The attack sank four U.S. Navy battleships and damaged four more. The Japanese also sank or damaged [...]

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Via FOX News: ABC didn’t cover it. CBS didn’t either. And NBC apparently wouldn’t go near it. The network news broadcasts have ignored a growing scandal over evidence of a potential climate cover-up — and now they’ve even been scooped by the fake news at Comedy Central. “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” produced its [...]

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Nothing here I haven’t been saying for years. From the UK Daily Express: The scientific consensus that mankind has caused climate change was rocked yesterday as a leading academic called it a “load of hot air underpinned by fraud”. Professor Ian Plimer condemned the climate change lobby as “climate comrades” keeping the “gravy train” going. [...]

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Says the Associated Press: President Obama‘s aunt buried her face in her hands and sobbed as she described her anguish that she no longer has contact with him and his family after the revelation she had been living illegally for years in the United States in public housing. Zeituni Onyango told The Associated Press in [...]

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Says Jonah Goldberg: Hence, the quest for the middle ground usually rewards the worst kinds of politicians — those devoid of any core convictions and only concerned with feathering their own nests — and yields the worst kinds of policies. Blending the two visions is like trying to marry two different recipes. You don’t get [...]

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