Common Folk Using Common Sense

On the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941, the Japanese navy attacked the United States’ naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack consisted of two aerial attack waves totaling 353 aircraft, launched from six Japanese aircraft carriers.
The attack sank four U.S. Navy battleships and damaged four more. The Japanese also sank or damaged [...]

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90 days.
That’s how long it’s been since General McChrystal asked for 40,000 more troops in Afghanistan.
That’s how long the Commander In Chief, voted on by the people, has been sitting on his butt and making no decision.
That’s how long US sailors, soldiers, airmen, and Marines, have been dying without the support necessary to do their [...]

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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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By Ralph Peters at the New York Post:

Am I the only one who’s noticed the silence? Mere months ago, left-wing bloggers and demonstrators were wailing Support our troops, bring them home! seven days a week.
Now their presidential candidate has announced that he won’t bring all those troops home, but will simply transfer combat forces from [...]

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Raila Odinga is married to Ida Odinga (born Ida Anyango Oyoo). They have four children – two sons and two daughters. His oldest son, Fidel, is named after Fidel Castro. Their youngest child, Winnie, is named after Winnie Mandela. Raila lives in Nairobi but has a second home in Bondo District.
Odinga claims to be [...]

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Until 1949, Tibet was an independent Buddhist nation in the Himalayas which had little contact with the rest of the world. It existed as a rich cultural storehouse of the Mahayana and Vajrayana teachings of Buddhism. Religion was a unifying theme among the Tibetans — as was their own language, literature, art, and world view [...]

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Today is December 7th, the 66th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
At dawn on Sunday, December 7, 1941, naval aviation forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the United States Pacific Fleet center at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and other military targets. The goal of this attack was to sufficiently cripple the US Fleet so [...]

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“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a [...]

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From the website:

During the week of October 22-26, 2007, the nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever – Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses.
The purpose of this protest is as simple as it is crucial: to confront the two Big Lies of the [...]

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U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, called on the Democratic leadership in Congress to condemn the full-page advertisement that appeared recently in the New York Times suggesting that General David Petraeus is a traitor.
“Every American, including a Washington special interest organization like MoveOn.org, has the right to voice their [...]

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FROM THE LEFT:
Accepting her Emmy on Sunday night for lead actress in a drama series (“Brothers and Sisters”), Field stumbled halfway through, lost her train of thought, screeched at the audience to stop applauding so she could finish talking, and then was bleeped by Fox censors as she stammered through an anti-war rant. “And, [...]

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By Thomas Sowell at RealClearPolitics.com:

Back in the 1930s, the governments of the democratic countries knew what Hitler was doing — and they knew that they had enough military superiority at that point to stop his military buildup in its tracks. But they did nothing to stop him.
Instead, they turned to what is still the magic [...]

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The news from the BBC is that all eight suspects are medical professionals, seven of them doctors, and all are linked to Britain’s NHS. But now we’re learning from CBS News that the people behind the attempts were directly recruited by Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, the present leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.
First, from the [...]

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From “Realists on Iraq” by Dan Senor, a former foreign policy adviser to the Bush administration and was based in Baghdad from April 2003 through June 2004, via Opinion Journal:

During Sunday night’s Democratic presidential debate, the candidates cited an oft-repeated source of the mess in Iraq: The White House’s refusal to heed knowledgeable advice.
But what [...]

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The Battle of Normandy was fought in 1944 between Nazi Germany in Western Europe and the invading Allied forces as part of the larger conflict of World War II. Operation Overlord was the codename for the Allied invasion of northwest Europe, which began on June 6, 1944, and ended on August 19, 1944, when the [...]

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