Common Folk Using Common Sense

Found at the UK Daily Mail: Her offence was to unwittingly sell a goldfish to a 14-year-old boy taking part in a trading standards ‘sting’. At most, pet shop owner Joan Higgins, 66, expected a slap on the wrist for breaking new animal welfare laws which ban the sale of pets to under-16s. Instead, the [...]

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Found at The American Spectator: Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed? Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths: The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe [...]

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Via CNSNews : The Internal Revenue Service will function as the government’s chief enforcer for health care reform, should President Obama sign the bill into law as expected, monitoring both businesses and individuals to certify whether they have the insurance coverage the government requires. The tax collection agency will be responsible for monitoring and enforcing [...]

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This is simply an example of things to come once the government is in control of your health care. From KOMO News: The mother of a Ballard High School student is fuming after the health center on campus helped facilitate her daughter’s abortion during school hours. “She took a pregnancy test at school at the [...]

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From Investor’s Business Daily: The latest data show a record number of people with no tax obligation. We also have the highest-earning nontaxpayers ever. With more riding the wagon and fewer pulling, it should soon break down. A record number of the 142 million tax returns filed in 2008 resulted in no taxes owed, according [...]

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Says Mark Steyn at The Washington Times: Investor’s Business Daily argues that the “health” debate is really a proxy fight on the size and role of government. According to its poll, 64 percent of people think the federal government has “too much power.” Correct. But a big chunk of that 64 percent voted less than [...]

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. – James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788 Spread The Word:

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Obama has been saying for some time that he wants to make health care affordable. Obama has been saying for some time that he wants to create more jobs and stimulate the economy. After last night’s vote on ObamaCare just look at what new taxes the healthcare industry will have to start paying: $2.7 billion [...]

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Part 3 of 3 From the Colorado Springs Gazette: The student Senate of the Fort Collins campus opposed the ban by a 23-1 vote. That means CSU governors, and administrators who pushed for the ban, don’t seem to care what their customers think. The Student Senate at Pueblo approved the ban, only after administrators said [...]

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Part 2 of 3 From the Colorado Springs Gazette: “There are volumes of statistical and anecdotal data that show populations are safer when law-abiding citizens are permitted to carry concealed weapons,” Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden said. Six years after Alderden began issuing permits, he noticed the homicide rate in his jurisdiction had dropped. At [...]

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Part 1 of 3 From the Colorado Springs Gazette: The Colorado State University Board of Governors voted unanimously Tuesday to place students at both of its campuses in harm’s way with a sweeping weapons ban law-abiding citizens will obey and criminals will ignore. Larimer County Sheriff James Alderden, outraged by the ban, told The Gazette’s [...]

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Says The Associated Press: Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance. Similar legislation is pending in 37 other states. Constitutional [...]

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Via the Seattle Times: Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state [ed: Washington state] won’t take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition — the latest development in an ongoing dispute over Medicaid reimbursement. The company, which operates 121 stores in the state, will continue filling Medicaid prescriptions [...]

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Via FOX News: Buyers, beware: President Barack Obama says his health care overhaul will lower premiums by double digits, but check the fine print. Premiums are likely to keep going up even if the health care bill passes, experts say. If cost controls work as advertised, annual increases would level off with time. But don’t [...]

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Says Kim Strassel at The Wall Street Journal: No way around it, the politics of ObamaCare are bad. So bad that it lends credence to the belief that some in the White House and Congress are far more ideologically interested in establishing European-style health care than they are the public’s will or their party’s electoral [...]

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