Common Folk Using Common Sense

Says Thomas Sowell: Many of the wonderful-sounding ideas that have been tried as government policies have failed disastrously. Because so few people bother to study history, often the same ideas and policies have been tried again, either in another country or in the same country at a later time — and with the same disastrous [...]

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This chart shows Obamacare‘s bewildering complexity. This is why I laugh when I see someone with an “Obama 2008” bumper sticker, because no sane person would wish this on themselves, their children, or their country. From the Joint Economic Committe: “For Americans, as well as Congressional Democrats who didn’t bother to read the bill, this [...]

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My Conservative Identity: You are a Flag-Waving Everyman, also known as a patriot. You believe in championing liberty over tyranny, apple pie over sushi, and that God gave us a two-day weekend so we could enjoy football and NASCAR. Take the quiz at About.com Political Humor Spread The Word:

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Without our current income tax, the average citizens could pay for health care, buy a home, send children to college, give to charities, invest in a business, and finance personal loans, all part of the historical concept of “The American Dream”. With our current income tax, Social Security tax, Medicare tax, sales tax, extra taxes [...]

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From Derek Thompson, staff editor at TheAtlantic.com: The median duration of unemployment is higher today than any time in the last 50 years. That’s an understatement. It is more than twice as high today than any time in the last 50 years. There are many economic analyses that show if you pay people not to [...]

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Roy Barnes is an Obama wannabe. He is beholden to the teacher’s unions and the “disenfranchised minorities” inside Georgia‘s urban areas (his “big ticket” legacy was getting rid of Georgia’s former “evil” state flag). He is Georgia’s version of Bill Clinton. I’m scared Barnes will side with the Washington Progressives over Georgia. A vote for [...]

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I’m going to take a time out of my usual ranting and raving to honor my son, a Sergeant in the US Marines. Spread The Word:

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Via EconomicPolicyJournal.com: They have passed the health bill, they have passed the financial regulations bill and they have snuck stuff into the stimulus package bills. They are going to track your money and your body. Here’s the first few things they are doing. This is step one. It will only get worse from here. “…the [...]

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Says John Silveira at Backwoods Home Magazine: Our rights are not constitutional rights. Our Founding Fathers never intended them to be. They set this country up with the understanding that our rights are God-given or natural. They are not gifts from the government; they are not granted by the Constitution. On the other hand, there [...]

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From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A Thomaston minister and a gun rights advocacy group is filing lawsuit challenging Georgia’s prohibition against guns in church, a move that was predicted after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month the Second Amendment‘s guarantee of an individual right to bear arms applied to state and local gun control laws. [...]

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Says USA Today: The pediatrician and Harvard University professor President Obama appointed Wednesday to run Medicare and Medicaid will play a central role in implementing the nation’s new health care law, predecessors and outside experts said. Donald Berwick, who Obama named to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, drew praise from top medical [...]

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Via FOX News: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA’s orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among [...]

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Today we not only need to take a Time Out and celebrate the founding of this country … … but we also need to take a Time Out to re-remember what Liberty really is, and compare it with what we have in America today. Liberty, AmericaSpread The Word:

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Found at RedState: Multiple sources tell me the National Rifle Association is planning to endorse liberal Harry Reid against pro-gun champion Sharron Angle. Well, I thought perhaps the NRA carveout in the DISCLOSE Act might be the answer. But, there is more. It turns out, Reid secured a $61 million earmark for a gun range [...]

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