Common Folk Using Common Sense

Via KHOU-TV: A third-grader at Brazos Elementary was given a week’s detention for possessing a Jolly Rancher. School officials in Brazos County are defending the seemingly harsh sentence. The school’s principal and superintendent said they were simply complying with a state law that limits junk food in schools. Just damn. This action by the school [...]

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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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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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From CNN: For the first time since he took over in the White House, Americans don’t see eye to eye with President Barack Obama on the important issues, according to a new national poll. According to the poll, which was released Tuesday, 48 percent of people questioned say that they agree with Obama on the [...]

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From the Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner, by Ed Stone, Atlanta attorney and President of Georgia Carry, a citizens advocacy group working toward the reform of Georgia’s poorly written, overly restrictive, ignored by the courts gun laws: Atlanta’s gun free zones are not free of guns or violent crime. Georgia has one of the toughest laws [...]

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From CNN: Brittany Zimmerman, a 21-year-old college student who wanted to be a doctor, called 911 as she was being attacked by a stranger, police say. But the police did not come for 48 minutes. By that time, Zimmerman was dead. Her fiance found her body. Although the dispatcher claimed later to have heard nothing, [...]

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Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease affecting the exocrine (mucus) glands of the lungs, liver, pancreas, and intestines, causing progressive disability due to multisystem failure. Thick mucus production results in frequent lung infections. Diminished secretion of pancreatic enzymes is the main cause of poor growth, greasy stools, and deficiency in fat-soluble vitamins. There is no [...]

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ITEM 1: On 09/18/2008 at approximately 11:50pm a Georgia Tech Student was robbed in the Student Center Parking Lot area by a white male using pepper spray and displaying a silver revolver. The suspect took the victim’s wallet and cellular phone before fleeing the area on foot. A short time later, two more students were [...]

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Saturday, August 30, the University of Georgia football team begins its new season. While I’m not a complete fanatic, I do try and keep up with sports from my alma mater. Yep, I’m a BullDawg, Class of 1985. I’m not sure why we have to go through all this physical punishment every year. They should [...]

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Hat tip to John Hardin: From the East Tennessean: It has become harder for students to imagine themselves completely safe on their college campuses because of the recent school shootings across the country. The one-year anniversary of the shooting at Virginia Tech is at hand and images of the Northern Illinois shooting still fresh in [...]

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First let’s read an article by The Associated Press: The hunt for a serial rapist spread fear around a college campus Sunday after police linked a 19-year-old woman’s death to at least two other attacks in the area. The woman’s body was found in a field on Friday, nearly a month after she vanished from [...]

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