Common Folk Using Common Sense

Says the UK Times Online: For the rest of us, however, it was mainly an opportunity to see how many conciliatory-looking poses Obama could strike while listening to his Republican opponents explain why the entire first year of his administration has been a gigantic waste of time, and why the telephone directory-sized health Bills produced [...]

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Via FOX News: President Barack Obama strongly signaled that Democrats will move forward on a health care overhaul with or without Republicans, preparing his party for a fight whose political outcome will rest with voters in November. Delivering his closing argument at a 7-1/2-hour televised policy marathon Thursday, Obama told Republicans he welcomes their ideas [...]

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Doug Van Gorder, in the Boston Globe, says: … as a progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime. So Mr. Gorder, a high school math teacher, would not use a gun to [...]

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Via FOX News: When 4-year-old Eric Stavros Adler choked to death on a piece of hot dog, his anguished mother never dreamed that the popular kids’ food could be so dangerous. Some food makers including Oscar Mayer have warning labels about choking, but not nearly enough, says Joan Stavros Adler, Eric’s mom. The American Academy [...]

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Via azcentral.com: Loaded guns will be allowed in Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon and other national parks under a new law that takes effect Monday. The law lets licensed gun owners bring firearms into national parks and wildlife refuges as long as they are allowed by state law. As of Monday, guns will be allowed in [...]

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Says Nile Gardiner, foreign affairs analyst and political commentator at the UK Telegraph: What a difference a year makes. A year ago, the liberal media in America (i.e. about 90% of the print press) had written off conservatism as dead and buried. An avowedly left-wing president worshipped with almost messianic zeal across much of the [...]

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I was cleaning my Romanian GP WASR-10/63 last night. AKs do need a slight bit of cleaning and oil every 1000 rounds or so (just kidding). For those of you that might be new to removing/re-installing the hammer and trigger on an AK-47, it’s mostly very easy as long as you keep the shepherd’s hook [...]

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Or so says CNN: 52 percent of Americans said President Barack Obama doesn’t deserve reelection in 2012, according to a new poll. 44 percent of all Americans said they would vote to reelect the president in two and a half years, less than the slight majority who said they would prefer to elect someone else. [...]

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Says Warner Todd Huston at Publius Forum: Marvel Comic’s Captain America is the mightiest soldier with the super powerful secret soldier formula that makes him a super man. In issue number 602 of Captain America, a new story line has begun called “Two Americas.” In it the current Captain (there have been a few of [...]

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From American Spectator and Boortz: The cost of our federal government is 25% of our total economy (GDP). This is compared with the average of 20.7% of the GDP during 1970-2009 If you include the cost of state and local government, the total cost of government is almost 40% of our GDP Since 2008, the [...]

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Via Rush Limbaugh and others: RUSH: Here’s Lech Walesa. This is last Friday in Chicago at a campaign event for Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Andrzejewski, and this is what he said, a portion of his remarks. WALESA (via translator): The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about [...]

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There is a meme going on on various pro-2A blogs, something like “What do I wear/carry on my person 99.9% of the time as I go about my day?” Some of the others continuing this meme can be found here and here and here. As for me: It contains: Smith & Wesson 642 Centennial Airweight [...]

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Says Tam: This is tied in to another thing I often read on the internet “You carry a gun to the (grocery store/restaurant/nice neighborhood/sewing circle/whatever)?” No, I don’t. As Kathy Jackson phrased it so well, I don’t carry a gun “to” anyplace; I just carry a gun. I put the gun on in the morning [...]

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Via The Washington Times: The era of big government has returned with a vengeance, in the form of the largest federal work force in modern history. The Obama administration says the government will grow to 2.15 million employees this year, topping 2 million for the first time since President Clinton declared that “the era of [...]

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“The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.” – Fisher Ames, US Representative, 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts, 1758-1808 Not only are the pre-existing rights of bearing arms and changing the government inherent in We The People, but they are also our job and [...]

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