Common Folk Using Common Sense

Hat tip to Neal Boortz:
“The Law” is an 1849 book by Frédéric Bastiat. It was published one year after the third French Revolution of 1848. The essay was influenced by John Locke’s “Second Treatise on Government” and in turn influenced Henry Hazlitt’s “Economics in One Lesson”. It is the work for which Bastiat is [...]

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Supposedly posted on the wall at First Baptist Church in Summersville, West Virginia:
1. Just one God
2. Put nothin’ before God
3. Watch yer mouth
4. Git yourself to Sunday meetin’
5. Honor yer Ma & Pa
6. No killin’
7. No foolin’ around with another fellow’s gal
8. Don’t take what ain’t yers
9. No tellin’ tales or gossipin’
10. Don’t be hankerin’ [...]

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From Cybercast News Service:

Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of Trumpet Newsmagazine.
“(Jesus’) enemies had their opinion about Him,” Wright wrote in a eulogy [...]

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From FOX News:

Six Iraq war protesters disrupted an Easter Mass on Sunday, shouting and squirting fake blood on themselves and parishioners in a packed auditorium.
Three men and three women startled the crowd during Cardinal Francis George’s homily, yelling “Even the Pope calls for peace” as they were removed from the Mass by security guards and [...]

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For twenty years, Barack Obama attended Trinity United Church in which Rev. Jeremiah Wright spewed his not famous hateful rhetoric on an apparently regular basis. For twenty years, Wright was Obama’s spiritual “mentor.” In Wright he had found both a spiritual mentor and a role model.
When he took over Trinity United Church of Christ [...]

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This blog will be running on autopilot for a few days.

Last Sunday was Palm Sunday.
Yesterday was Maundy Thursday.
Today is Good Friday.
Sunday is Easter.
This week, called Holy Week by many Christians, is the most sacred time of the year, and it commemorates the last week of the earthly life of Jesus Christ culminating in his crucifixion [...]

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St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is one of the world’s most widely known figures. He was born in Britain near the end of the fourth century, and died on March 17, around 460 A.D.
At the age of sixteen, Patrick was taken prisoner by Irish raiders who were attacking his family’s [...]

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From the BBC:

The Archbishop of Canterbury says the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK “seems unavoidable”.
Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4’s World at One that the UK has to “face up to the fact” that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.
Dr Williams argues that adopting [...]

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