233 years ago, our predecessors through off the chains of an oppressive, authoritarian, anti-freedom government. Their success was the first step towards our free and democratic way of life.
233 years later, another George is trying to shackle the freedom and democracy of this great country through an authoritarian and oppressive force of will.
Today you have [...]

(From a recent post at Bring It On! Special thanks to Tom Baker for posting this there.)
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN
Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. [...]

Sometimes, in our collective efforts to expose all that is wrong with the world, our country, and our government in particular, we lose sight of all that is right. This past weekend, I was reminded in many subtle and some not so subtle ways that despite the problems facing us globally, beyond the morass of [...]

[I must apologize again to regular readers for the length of time between new posts at Common Sense. My only excuse is that as I prepare to run a campaign for Congress, I have less time to spend on the blog. In that spirit, I offer a repost of the second essay ever to appear [...]

(An apology to regular readers of Common Sense. As of late, I have become increasingly occupied with beginning a campaign. That explains the increasing length of time between posts. This post was originally published here in June 2005. But it came back to mind today after I read another similar essay, and it seems to [...]

When I turned 18 years old, I registered to vote. I indicated on my registration form that I was a Democrat. I stayed a registered democrat until 2004. That’s when I became an officially designated “non-affiliated” voter. In truth, I was just this kind of voter all along.
I was raised to believe that if you [...]

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In January 2005, I began this website called Common Sense with the intention of examining my own political beliefs and formulating them into a cohesive personal platform. In my writings, I approached various issues not from a strictly liberal or conservative mindset, but from what I consider to be a more reasoned, rational frame of [...]

You may have noticed a new banner on the right side for the 2005 Koufax Awards. I’d never heard of these blog awards until this year, but apparently they recognize writers and blogs for a variety of categories. It was a surprise to me that I was nominated in the ‘Best Series’ category, for my [...]

Free speech…it is one of the hallmarks of the American way of life. The ability to freely express oneself without fear of government reprisal is so fundamental that it is enshrined in the first amendment to our national Constitution. Yet despite this protection, there have always been restrictions on how free our speech really is, [...]