Common Folk Using Common Sense

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 issues that [...]

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Says Reuters:

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has raised the stakes against Israel by describing the Holocaust as a lie, just as world powers are trying to decide how to deal with the nuclear ambitions of an Iran in political turmoil.
“The pretext (Holocaust) for the creation of the Zionist regime (Israel) is false … It is a lie [...]

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On September 11, 2001 there were a a series of coordinated suicide attacks by Al-Qaeda upon the United States.
On that morning, 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone [...]

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Yahoo, via Michelle Malkin, reminds us:

Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, letting the Libyan go home to die despite American pleas to show no mercy for the man responsible for the 1988 attack that killed 270 people.
The White House declared it “deeply” regretted the Scottish decision as Abdel Baset al-Megrahi [...]

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From 11Alive (Atlanta):

Thousands of Atlanta residents have received an email warning from a police major about rising, violent crime in Zone 5, which includes neighborhoods in downtown and midtown.
Major Khirus Williams sent out the alert after a string of robberies and carjackings Monday night.
Here is some of what he wrote:
“Please, let us all keep our [...]

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The Free Gaza movement is sending another solidarity ship to the Strip, due this time to the major Israeli attacks. The four previous voyages have set sail in solidarity to the million and a half residents under siege.
On board the ship expected to set sail on Monday are four physicians. Among them is Dr. Elena [...]

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The city of Mumbai, India, has been rocked to the core by days of terrorist attack. Many dead, many more injured. Many questions, few answers. This attack may be the most significant terrorist attack since the Sept. 11 attack against the United States.
An unknown group calling itself Deccan Mujahideen has claimed [...]

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In the mindless hysteria following the attack of 9/11 then-Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) insisted on federalizing air screeners, famously declaring that you can’t “professionalize unless you federalize”. Pundits said it was to pack the democratic rolls with new federal union employees that will mindlessly vote democratic. Daschle claimed that it gave the federal government the [...]

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Obama’s top campaign staff have attempted to downplay the relationship between Obama and Bill Ayers. Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said that Obama and Ayers weren’t close and that Obama was only 8 years old when Ayers was bombing buildings.
But Obama’s connections with Bill Ayers are much more extensive than he or his campaign staff [...]

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Alaska is the first line of defense in our missile interceptor defense system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion of the Alaska National Guard is the unit that protects the entire nation from ballistic missile attacks.
It’s on permanent active duty, unlike other Guard units.
As governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin is briefed on highly classified military issues, [...]

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Early in the morning on September 11, 2001, nineteen hijackers took control of four commercial airliners en route to San Francisco and Los Angeles from Boston, Newark, and Washington, D.C. (Washington Dulles International Airport). The hijackers flew two of the airliners, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the North and [...]

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William Ayers, who was a founder of the 1960s and 1970s radical group the Weather Underground, said that he still believed he was “on the side of justice” years after the group’s wave of attacks.
Between October 1969 and September 1973, the Weather Underground claimed credit for some twenty bombings across the country, including courthouses, correctional [...]

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Lots of smart people are already covering this (on-the-rocks, Dr. Rusty Shackleford) but I’ll put in my two cents worth.
Says Rusty:

Associated Press photographer Rahmatullah Naikzad was a witness to a Taliban murder. The two women were alleged to have been prostitutes who served Western clientèle.
A quick Yahoo News photo search of Rahmatullah Naikzad seems to [...]

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From a little-read article on USAToday:

A judge in Ohio says the state’s method of putting prisoners to death is unconstitutional because two of three drugs used in the lethal injection process can cause pain.
Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge said Tuesday the state’s lethal injection procedure doesn’t provide the quick and painless death required [...]

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From the USAToday:

That’s the headline from the Toronto Star which is reporting that Marnina Norys, a 39-year-old Ph.D. student in Canada, was stopped by security and prohibited from wearing her necklace into the terminal.
Last week, security officials at Kelowna International Airport in British Columbia forced Norys to remove a silver necklace with a pendant in [...]

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