Common Sense

Obama's Common Sense

Bob Burnett | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: 99 Percent, Economy Built to Last, Obama State of the Union, State of the Union, President Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Common Sense, We Are the 99 Percent, President Obama, Politics News
Bob Burnett

In January of 1776, Thomas Paine published his pamphlet Common Sense. 236 years later, Barack Obama presented his own forceful version of common sense in his third State-of-the-Union address.

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Happy Birthday, Common Sense

Chris Weigant | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Government, Pamphleteer, Thomas Paine, Pamphlet, Chris Weigant, Revolution, Independence, Britain, Common Sense, America, Paine, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Two hundred and thirty-six years ago this week, a pamphlet was published in Philadelphia. Thomas Paine's Common Sense hit the American consciousness like a bombshell -- one which would reverberate for years to come.

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Common Says He Got His Mojo Back With His New Album

AP | MESFIN FEKADU | Posted 02.21.2012

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NEW YORK — Most people are excited before recording a new album, but Common didn't particularly feel that way. He says before making his ninth ...

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Common Sense Policy

Doug Demeo | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Clean Technologies, Campaign for Congress, 21st Century, Jobs Creation, Pollution Costs, Economy That Works for Everyone, Occupy Wall Street, Externalities, Common Sense, Politics News
Doug Demeo

People want government to address our disparities in more honest ways. They want better response to our nation's concerns, beginning with fair and effective economic policy. Common sense policy.

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Play To The Base?

Al Checchi | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Leadership, Jobs Bill, Economy, Join Together America, Political Class, Obama, Democrats, Democratic Party, Common Sense, Barack Obama, Political Extremism, Senate, Economic Stimulus Package, Al Checchi, Declaration for Independence, The Change Maker, Republicans, Politics News
Al Checchi

Those who are advising President Obama to "play to the base" and tack further to the left are sowing the seeds for a Democratic wipe out more devastat...

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FINALLY: The One-Step Super Easy Facebook Privacy Fix

Joe Peacock | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Internet, Facebook Privacy, Why Are You Stupid?, Facebook, Common Sense, Privacy, Comedy News
Joe Peacock

The option is buried deep in the settings of Facebook, as well as hundreds of thousands of websites across the internet. It's a simple, one-step process that will ensure 100% privacy on each and every website. Curious? Well here it is.

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Thomas Paine's Common Sense Is the Cure for Cynical Citizens

Harvey J. Kaye | Posted 09.26.2011

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Harvey J. Kaye

Need refreshment from the summer heat? A respite from the debt ceiling debacle? A break from the sense that all the hope was for naught? Read the book that turned America's colonial rebellion into a revolution.

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Why We Like Apple More Than Microsoft

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Cognitive Biases, Common Sense, Healthy Living Health News, Problem With Cognitive Biases, Kinds of Cognitive Biases, Problem With Common Sense, Healthy Living Mind, Types of Cognitive Biases, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News
Dr. Jim Taylor

Unfortunately, there is no magic pill that will inoculate us from these cognitive biases. But we can reduce their power over us by understanding these distortions.

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Common Sense: The Biggest Myth Ever Told?

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 09.13.2011

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Dr. Jim Taylor

I think so-called common sense is a fallacy that has been foisted on us by our culture of ideology (any ideology that wants to tell us what we should think and do) that prefers us to be stupid, ill-informed and poor decision makers.

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McCain Dethrones the Rule of Law

Bruce Fein | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Law, Alexander Hamilton, Congress, President Obama, Federal Reserve, James Madison, UN Security Council, U.S. Constitution, Pentagon Budget, Common Sense, Robert Jackson, Libya, UN Convention Against Torture, Enemy Combatants, John Bassett Moore, Constitution, Predator Drones, War Powers Resolution, Pentagon, John McCain, Thomas Paine, Libya War, State Secrets, Thomas Jefferson, James Wilson, Democrats, U.S. Supreme Court, Military Commissions, Patriot Act, Department of Treasury, U.S. Senate, War Powers Act, Fisa, Republicans, Politics News
Bruce Fein

John McCain's latest war gospel hangs an alarming tale. The rule of law has been dethroned and the president has been endowed with absolute power as the American Empire has eclipsed the American Republic.

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Phil Ochs, Tom Paine, And There But for Fortune

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harvey Kaye, Thomas Paine, Phil Ochs, Greenwich Village Rockaway, Dave Van Ronk, Pete Seeger, American Crisis, Sean Penn, Bob Dylan, Common Sense, Joan Baez, Salvador Allende, Kenneth Bowser, John Adams, Victor Jara, Peter Yarrow, Politics News
Bruce E. Levine

The afterlife of the man once called "Tom Paine with a guitar" has, for the last 30 years, paralleled that of Tom Paine himself. Both Ochs and Paine were discarded by their respective mainstream worlds.

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Only About the Law? Part II

Jim Lichtman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: First Amedment, Thomas Paine, Albert Snyder, Margie Phelps, Responsibility, Fred W. Phelps Sr., Ethics, Westboro Baptist Church, Sean Summers, Snyder v. Phelps, Respect, Huffington Post, Common Sense, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics News
Jim Lichtman

Last Friday (Oct. 8) I published a commentary discussing the case Snyder v. Phelps currently before the U.S. Supreme Court; a case that, at first glan...

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Educating for Democracy: Does a President Have to Have a Religion?

Joel Shatzky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christian Nation, Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine, Common Sense, Benjamin Franklin, President Barack Obama, Religion News
Joel Shatzky

Why is it necessary for a president not only to have to "prove" his religious beliefs but have them at all? Does being a "believer" make a president that much more likely to be a good leader?

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Ben Craw

Bizarro Beck: What It Would Be Like If Glenn Beck Made Sense All The Time (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Craw | Posted 05.25.2011

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As you may have seen, last night history was made when Jon Stewart found himself agreeing with Glenn Beck on something, calling Beck "far more reasona...

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Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut. Sometimes You Don't.

James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011

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James Boyce

Can you complete this old advertising jingle? Almond Joy's got nuts, mounds don't. The other day in our office I discovered, that our newest hires had no idea what I was talking about.

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10 Mistakes Businesses Make Daily...and 10 quick-fix solutions

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard Laermer

During the last mercurial cycle, I asked several super-successful types what killed businesses. If we can somehow work on eradicating a few simple mis...

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Troll Patrol - 5 Things You Can Do

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Safety, Trolling, Personal Protection, Blogs, Twitter, Bing, Extortion, Brand Management, Common Sense, Facebook, Cyber Crimes, Internet, Social Media, Linkedin, Snopes, Espionage, Trolls, Google, Egov, gov30, Troll, gov20, Ogov, Opengov, Gov 2.0, Gov 3.0, gov20la, Bill Grundfest, Alan W. Silberberg, Technology News
Alan W. Silberberg

Trolling is a growing problem online and especially in social media spaces. It clogs up our email boxes, confuses the follower/following counts and throws monkey wrenches into people actively building engaged online communities. I have created my own types based on behavior I have seen.

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Strip Congress of Its Health Care to Jumpstart Reform!

Steven Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Politics, Thomas Paine, Water, Health, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Common Sense, Barack Obama, Politics News
Steven Solomon

In viewing health care reform here, we should all consider the case of the sudden legislative birth of England's historic sanitary reform, which was suddenly enacted in a little more than 2 weeks after years of dithering.

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Common Sense and Hope for the Future: A Boy, A Mountain, and the Spirit of Thomas Paine

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nina Sankovitch

Now it is up to Congress to act on pending clean energy legislation and for us to push them to do it. Two recent books illustrate, in very different ways, why.

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Resolution Will Halt GOP Progress

Candace Straight | Posted 05.25.2011

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Candace Straight

Let's hope, when the RNC considers this purity resolution this week, a majority of its members keep these fundamental GOP principles in mind and vote against this outrageous proposition.

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Subsidizing Junk Mail in the Great Recession

Todd Paglia | Posted 05.25.2011

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Todd Paglia

If you think receiving your daily dose of junk mail just kills trees, clogs landfills, exacerbates climate change, is an invitation to identity theft,...

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N.O.P.E.: National Organization of Pissed Off Elders

Jim Selman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Jim Selman

I want to create a new organization to stamp out stupidity and indifference and restore common decency and goodwill into society. I think I'll call it the National Organization of Pissed-Off Elders (N.O.P.E.).

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Positive Propaganda

Nancy Snow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Syracuse University, Propaganda, American Revolution, Thomas Paine, Samuel Adams, Positive Propaganda, Common Sense, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Politics News
Nancy Snow

Propaganda is actually a value-free term: the words of Thomas Paine, John Dickinson and Samuel Adams are all textbook examples of propaganda.

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From Contract To Bestseller In 60 Days

James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frances Beinecke, Natural Resources Defense Council, Thomas Paine, Copenhagen 2009, Clean Energy Common Sense, Nrdc, Climate Change, Common Sense, James Boyce, Books News
James Boyce

In a slow-moving industry, Clean Energy Common Sense is an anomaly. Frances Beinecke went from book contract to #4 on the Amazon Non-Fiction Bestsellers list in a little over 60 days.

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Uncommon Sense

Jim Lichtman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: State Senator Steve Russell, Media, Voltaire, Common Sense, Politics, President Obama, Politics News
Jim Lichtman

In words that I can only describe as abominably ignorant, a number of state legislators and others have said the following regarding President Obama's...

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