Common Folk Using Common Sense

From TribStar.com (Terre Haute, Indiana): When Sally Harpold bought cold medicine for her family back in March, she never dreamed that four months later she would end up in handcuffs. Now, Harpold is trying to clear her name of criminal charges, and she is speaking out in hopes that a law will change so others [...]

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From the local newspaper: County residents received some sticker shock after seeing an increase in their property taxes this year when tax bills started hitting their mail boxes this past weekend. County Tax Commissioner Dan Ray said Tuesday his office received 250 telephone calls on Monday from residents, and almost all of them were asking [...]

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Says National Review Online: In the new GI Joe movie, Hollywood appears to have transformed an American hero into an A-Team for the United Nations. That’s because “GI Joe” is now an acronym for “Globally Integrated Joint Operating Entity” (or something like that). But the film’s marketers aren’t exactly trumpeting this fact, at least not [...]

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ITEM 1: From CNS News we learn: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday [07/07/09] that the health-care reform bill now pending in Congress would garner very few votes if lawmakers actually had to read the entire bill before voting on it. “If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t [...]

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Over at The Heritage Foundation I learned the following: Greenhouse gases comprise only 2% of Earth’s atmosphere, or 0.02. Nitrogen, oxygen, and argon make up 99.96% of the atmosphere. CO2 gases comprise only 3.62% of all greenhouse gases, or 0.0724% of the atmosphere (although Microsoft Encarta and Wikipedia says it’s only 0.03-0.04%). Humans only create [...]

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Drudge is screaming some headlines this morning. If I am reading these correctly, as reported on Obama‘s Recovery.gov website: The Department of Agriculture paid $2,531,600 to CLOUGHERTY PACKING, LLC of Los Angeles for “HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN, SLICED, 2-LB” The Department of Agriculture paid $1,191,200 to CLOUGHERTY PACKING, LLC of Los Angeles for “2 [...]

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This is freaking sick: GARY, Ind. (CBS) – A 26-year-old convenience store clerk was shot and killed in broad daylight in Gary, Ind., and police say witnesses stood by and did nothing. CBS 2′s Pamela Jones reports there are critical clues that may help crack the case. Police say one of the four men caught [...]

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From the UK Times Online: The [French] Constitutional Council declared access to the internet to be a basic human right, directly opposing the key points of Mr Sarkozy‘s law, passed in April, which created the first internet police agency in the democratic world. … Les sages – the wise men – as the council is [...]

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Taken from data contained in the article “Georgia has more places off limits to bearing arms than California” by Ed Stone: Georgia or California: Which place has more off limits locations to bearing, i.e., actually carrying, a firearm? Is it legal to carry at Public Buildings and Meetings? YES in California, NO in Georgia. Is [...]

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From Bloomberg News on 03/17/09: President Barack Obama’s decision to place czars above Cabinet-level agencies presents dangers beyond confusion over who’s in charge and an organizational chart that looks like pasta carbonara. There’s also the potential for a constitutional crisis. Obama’s czars, the most ever appointed by an administration, are likely to have the authority [...]

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From NewsBusters is this story of Newsweek editor Evan Thomas chatting with MSNBC‘s Chris Matthews on “Hardball”. Matthews started the love-fest: “The question now is whether the President we elected and spoke for us so grandly yesterday can carry out the great vision he gave us and to the world. If he can, he’ll be [...]

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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 [...]

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I’ve been trying to piece together all the junk in the current legislation that is supposed to stimulate the economy, but Neal Boortz did a much better job of wading through that cesspool: $350 million to develop and maintain a broadband inventory map at the Department of Commerce $1.375 billion for Rural Water and Waste [...]

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From The Houston Chronicle: A woman accused of shooting a man with a bow and arrow at her father’s workplace before being shot by two civilians and a Houston police officer has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Julie Parker, 33, was listed in fair condition at Ben Taub General Hospital today [...]

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From Linz at Average Abnormalities: SAFELINK WIRELESS® service is U.S. government supported program for Income eligible households provided by TracFone Wireless, Inc. In order to participate in the SAFELINK WIRELESS® service, persons must meet certain eligibility requirements set by each State where the service is to be provided. These requirements are based on a person’s [...]

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