Common Folk Using Common Sense

Via Washington Examiner: Georgia lawmakers voted Thursday to back a sweeping gun rights expansion, approving a measure that would allow permit-holders to carry guns into some bars and the parking lots of colleges, courthouses, airports and jails. The measure, which was approved by both chambers Thursday in the final hour of the 40-day legislative session, [...]

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The Georgia House passed SB291 with no amendments by a vote of 120-37. SB291, now goes to the governor for his signature. This legislation: 1) Removes misdemeanor marijuana lifetime prohibitor, 2) Removes requirement for fingerprinting for license renewals, 3) Would allow airport carry in non secure areas, 4) Removes fingerprint from license, 5) Requires probate [...]

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At Reason.com: During his testimony [Inspector General for TARP Neil] Barofsky addressed GM’s recent debt repayment activity, and stated that the funds GM is using to repay its TARP debt are not coming from GM earnings. Instead, GM seems to be using TARP funds from an escrow account at Treasury to make the debt repayments. [...]

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Via Inform.com: Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill making Arizona the third state allowing people to carry a concealed weapon without requiring a permit. The measure takes effect 90 days after the current legislative session ends, which likely puts the effective date in July or August. “I believe this legislation not [...]

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“It seems really odd to me that a college campus is the only place where a rapist, or a criminal, has a government guarantee that none of his potential victims will be armed.” – Gregory Carlson, chairman of the College Republicans on CU’s Boulder campus in discussing the Colorado Court of Appeals ruling that overturned [...]

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“Every person has a natural, fundamental and inalienable human, individual, civil and Constitutional right to obtain and carry their weapon of choice without asking anyone’s permission.” – L. Neil Smith, addressing the Libertarian 2nd Amendment Caucus Spread The Word:

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the owner of this blog is proud to present Bailee Marie (nicknamed Little Rose), my third grandchild. Spread The Word:

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Says Real Clear Politics: Obama‘s Approval Rating: 46.1 Approve 47.3 Disapprove Says Rasmussen: Three weeks after Congress passed its new national health care plan, support for repeal of the measure has risen four points to 58%. That includes 50% of U.S. voters who strongly favor repeal. When the government refuses to follow the will of [...]

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Presenting my new Savage 10 FCM Scout in .308 Winchester. Includes Savage‘s “AccuTrigger” and “AccuStock”, 20.5″ free-floating button-rifled barrel, 4 round detachable box magazine, rear ghost ring sight, and built-in recoil pad. I added a Leaper’s folding bipod and an NC Star Pistolero series long eye relief scope at 2.5x. I still need a ching [...]

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Says Rasmussen: On major issues, 48% of voters say that the average Tea Party member is closer to their views than President Barack Obama. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 44% hold the opposite view and believe the president’s views are closer to their own. Eighty-seven percent (87%) of those in the [...]

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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. – D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922 Spread The Word:

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If a free society depends upon an informed citizenry exercising oversight of its government, then more people need to know how to handle themselves in a police encounter. Is cooperation always the best course of action? Or are there times to assert the constitutional right to refuse consent to a search of one’s home or [...]

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