Common Folk Using Common Sense

Since Obama was elected to be the next President something has happened on that has never been seen before - Wall Street is collapsing.

Throughout the campaign Obama promised take care of every citizen’s needs from school to medical bills to rent and fuel-efficient cars. He promised new massive government spending. He’s suggested privatizing [...]

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By Brendan Keefe at WCPO-TV (Cincinnati, Ohio):

There have been so many school shootings over the last 40 years that researchers have been able to develop a profile of the typical mass murderer.
They’re called “active shooters” or “active killers” and their crimes play out in a matter of minutes.
After the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, [...]

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From the UK Guardian News:

Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration, the Guardian has learned.
Clinton would be well placed to become the country’s dominant voice in foreign affairs, replacing Condoleezza Rice.

The Secretary of State [...]

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From the NRA:

After months of telling the American people that he supports the Second Amendment, and only hours after being declared the president-elect, the Obama transition team website announced an agenda taken straight from the anti-gun lobby–four initiatives designed to ban guns and drive law-abiding firearm manufacturers and dealers out of business:
“Making the expired [...]

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From Hot Air:

Barack Obama was rated the most liberal United States Senator in 2007 by the non-partisan National Journal — farther left than Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, and self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders. He rarely mentions this extreme voting record as he campaigns throughout the heartland, just as he refrains from telling middle America what he [...]

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From Political Punch at ABC News:

On the stump this week, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has pushed back against Sen. John McCain’s description of his tax policies.
“The reason that we want to do this, change our tax code, is not because I have anything against the rich,” Obama said in Sarasota, Florida, yesterday. “I love rich [...]

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By Steven G. Calabresi at the Wall Street Journal:

On the Supreme Court, six of the current nine justices will be 70 years old or older on January 20, 2009. There is a widespread expectation that the next president could make four appointments in just his first term, with maybe two more in a second term. [...]

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From Hot Air:

As a skilled rhetorical magician, Obama presents himself as a tax-cutter. Even though he’s voted dozens of times to raise taxes, he assures Americans that 95% of us will have our taxes slashed under his plan. The Wall Street Journal isn’t buying it. Once again, though, the best way to assess someone’s positions [...]

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