Common Folk Using Common Sense

From National Review Online:

According to the most recent Fortune 500 rankings, health insurers are not even among the top-30 United States industries in profit-margin. Health insurers rank 35th, with a profit-margin of just 2.2 percent — less than one-fifth the profit-margin of railroads. None of the ten largest American health insurers made profits [...]

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From those great folks at Cato:

Additional federal spending transfers resources from the more productive private sector to the less productive public sector of the economy.
As federal spending rises, it creates pressure to raise taxes now and in the future.
Much federal spending is wasteful and many federal programs are mismanaged.
Federal programs often benefit special interest groups [...]

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From CNN:

A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.
Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government’s become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and [...]

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Says the UK Times Online:

For the rest of us, however, it was mainly an opportunity to see how many conciliatory-looking poses Obama could strike while listening to his Republican opponents explain why the entire first year of his administration has been a gigantic waste of time, and why the telephone directory-sized health Bills produced by [...]

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Via FOX News:

President Barack Obama strongly signaled that Democrats will move forward on a health care overhaul with or without Republicans, preparing his party for a fight whose political outcome will rest with voters in November.
Delivering his closing argument at a 7-1/2-hour televised policy marathon Thursday, Obama told Republicans he welcomes their ideas — even [...]

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Says Nile Gardiner, foreign affairs analyst and political commentator at the UK Telegraph:

What a difference a year makes. A year ago, the liberal media in America (i.e. about 90% of the print press) had written off conservatism as dead and buried. An avowedly left-wing president worshipped with almost messianic zeal across much of the world, [...]

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Or so says CNN:

52 percent of Americans said President Barack Obama doesn’t deserve reelection in 2012, according to a new poll.
44 percent of all Americans said they would vote to reelect the president in two and a half years, less than the slight majority who said they would prefer to elect someone else.
Obama faces a [...]

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Says Warner Todd Huston at Publius Forum:

Marvel Comic’s Captain America is the mightiest soldier with the super powerful secret soldier formula that makes him a super man.
In issue number 602 of Captain America, a new story line has begun called “Two Americas.” In it the current Captain (there have been a few of them, [...]

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From American Spectator and Boortz:

The cost of our federal government is 25% of our total economy (GDP). This is compared with the average of 20.7% of the GDP during 1970-2009
If you include the cost of state and local government, the total cost of government is almost 40% of our GDP
Since 2008, the cost of our [...]

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Via Rush Limbaugh and others:

RUSH: Here’s Lech Walesa. This is last Friday in Chicago at a campaign event for Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Andrzejewski, and this is what he said, a portion of his remarks.
WALESA (via translator): The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about it. [...]

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Via The Washington Times:

The era of big government has returned with a vengeance, in the form of the largest federal work force in modern history.
The Obama administration says the government will grow to 2.15 million employees this year, topping 2 million for the first time since President Clinton declared that “the era of big government [...]

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“The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.” – Fisher Ames, US Representative, 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts, 1758-1808

Not only are the pre-existing rights of bearing arms and changing the government inherent in We The People, but they are also our job and our [...]

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From Yahoo:

The Obama administration’s plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families.
In the 2010 budget tabled by President Barack Obama on Monday, the White House wants to let billions of dollars [...]

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From Theodore Haas, a Holocaust survivor that was imprisoned at Dachau, in an interview with Aaron Zelman, founder, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership:

Aaron Zelman: It appears the Liberal left in America is tolerating, and sometimes espousing anti-Semitism. Why do you think so many Jews still support the leftist form of Liberalism?
Theodore Haas: [...]

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