Common Folk Using Common Sense

Says Jonah Goldberg: Hence, the quest for the middle ground usually rewards the worst kinds of politicians — those devoid of any core convictions and only concerned with feathering their own nests — and yields the worst kinds of policies. Blending the two visions is like trying to marry two different recipes. You don’t get [...]

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Said by Doctor Zero: The Declaration of Independence states that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The American understanding of democracy does not envision voters as slaves who enjoy the privilege of voting for a new master every few years. When the Declaration speaks of the right – and, later [...]

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Says Richard Viguerie at ConservativeHQ: In her statement announcing suspension of her campaign in the special election for New York’s 23rd congressional district, Assemblywoman and liberal GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava refused to throw her support behind a fellow Republican, Doug Hoffman, who is running on the Conservative Party ticket in this particular race. That was [...]

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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) – 49% Jon Corzine (D) – 45% Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell (R) – 59% Creigh Deeds (D) – 41% N.Y. District 23 Bill Owens (D) – 49% Doug Hoffman (Conservative) – 41% Christie and McDonnel, both Republicans in heavily-Democratic states, won. Hoffman, a complete underdog on a 3rd party [...]

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From Rasmussen: The race in New York’s 23rd Congressional District highlights the concerns many Republican voters have about their party leaders. At a time when 73% of Republicans believe their party’s representatives in Congress have lost touch with the GOP base, 11 county leaders in upstate New York picked a nominee for Congress who supported [...]

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From The Politico: The conservative coup in upstate New York did much more than lay bare the power of conservative activists: It exposed how little control GOP officials hold over this surging and formidable political movement. In the wake of conservatives’ role in forcing liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava out of Tuesday’s special election in New [...]

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Who you voted for President: “The Post-American World” by Fareed Zakaria “This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” So begins Fareed Zakaria’s important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria [...]

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Found at The Hill: Sarah Palin has begun to get on the nerves of Republican senators who say the former GOP vice presidential nominee is taking her own White House aspirations entirely too seriously. Uh, no, you limp-wristed Republican senators. Sarah Palin is NOT taking her White House aspirations entirely too seriously. If there were [...]

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Sarah Palin. Because everyone else in the news last year were pussies. Sarah PalinSpread The Word:

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December 15 marks America’s Bill of Rights Day, the anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution. To commemorate this event, we have created the Second Amendment Book Bomb, a unique and powerful way to communicate the importance of the Bill of Rights’ Second Amendment for the protection of liberty. [...]

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From the Chicago Sun-Times: President-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, refused to take questions from reporters this morning about whether he was the Obama “advisor” named in the criminal complaint against Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The complaint states Blagojevich wanted a promise of a high-level appointment or some other reward for Blagojevich in exchange [...]

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From Bloomberg: Rod Blagojevich has followed in the footsteps of his predecessors: He became the fourth of the past seven governors elected in Illinois to be arrested. Residents blame the sad tradition on a culture of patronage. “Government in Illinois isn’t about political ideology or helping people,” said Christopher Mooney, who teaches political science at [...]

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From the AFP: President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday that lawful gun owners have “nothing to fear” from his incoming administration so there is no reason for Americans to stock up on guns. Gun shops across the country have reported increased sales amid fears that Obama intends to restrict gun sales after taking office on January [...]

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From Alan Korwin at DOWN RANGE TV: Plenty of gun-ban speculation is flying. I have this quote direct from Sarah Brady in a letter addressed to me: “On Election Day, we helped deliver a strong victory for President-Elect Barack Obama and Vice-President-Elect Joe Biden. They will be two of the most powerful allies we have [...]

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From CNSNews.com: President-elect Barack Obama designated Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) to be his next secretary of state Monday, despite having spent much of the previous two years questioning her foreign-policy credentials. During the campaign for the Democratic nomination, Obama mocked Clinton’s primary claim that she possessed the necessary foreign policy experience to be president. “What [...]

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