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From Contract To Bestseller In 60 Days

James Boyce | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

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

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

Jim Selman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Aging, Social Security, Elders, Drag Race, Bureaucrats, Power, Capitalism, Common Sense, Compassion, Ideology, Decency, Politics, Scooters, Freedom, Principles, Slogan, Goodwill, Customer Service, Nope, Zoomers, Sex, Living News

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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Uncommon Sense

Jim Lichtman | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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

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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New Study Confirms Water Is Wet

David Finkle | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media

Read More: New Studies, The New York Times, Pets Resembling Dog Owners, Scientific Studies, Common Sense, Truckers, Texting, American Obesity, Truckers Texting, The Beatles, New Studies Coverage, New Study Expenditures, Battlefield Hunches, Generation Gap Eased, Dog Owners Resembling Pets, Health Care, Media News

Money is being spent on these evidently endless studies--perhaps lots and lots and lots of money. For what? For news as old as recorded time and maybe older.

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No One Has the Sense to Protect These Children

Fred Silberberg | Posted 08.22.2009 | Home

Read More: Pbs, Child-Protection, Confidentiality, An American Family, Divorce, Children, Jon and Kate Gosselin, Jon and Kate, Parenting, Psychological-Effects-of-Divorce, Celebrity Kids, Common Sense, Public-Access, Jon-and-Kate-Gosselin-Divorce, Loud Family, Divorce Court, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Home News

Certainly no one asked these eight small children whether they wanted what would otherwise have been a private, and hopefully somewhat innocent childhood, kept that way.

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The Celebration of a Progressive Holiday

Mike Lux | Posted 08.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tories, Tom Paine, Independence Day, The Progressive Revolution, July 4th, Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, Common Sense, Politics News

Progressives should take special pride in this holiday, for it was the ultimate achievement of progressive values that brought us this day.

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Exclusive Footage Of Glenn Beck's Common Sense Comedy Show

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 07.06.2009 | Comedy

Read More: We-Surround-Them, Glenn Beck Comedy Tour, Stand Up, Teabagging, Satire, Glenn Beck Fox News, Founding Fathers, Fox News, Political Satire, Glenn Beck, Movie, Tea Party, Fox News Channel, Humor and Satire, Common Sense, Simulcast, Chicago-Illinois, United Kingdom, Comedy News

I live-blogged the event on Twitter, so I thought I'd post some of the "highlights" including Glenn Beck opening with a joke about Whoopi Goldberg stabbing a man.

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Looking for Bailout Love in All the Wrong Places

Don McNay | Posted 04.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Citigroup CEO, Wall Street Bailout, Hank Paulson, Wayne Rogers, Lobbyists, Credit Card Rates, Todd Thomson, Fox Business Network, Common Sense, Aig, Citigroup Rescue, Bailout, Insurance, Maria Bartiromo, Hank Greenberg, Mash, Kentucky, Lexington KY, Personal Finance, Credit Card Industry, New AIG Bailout, Bad People, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, Auto Insurance, Cnbc, AIG Bailout, Don McNay, Credit Card Debt, Credit Cards, Insurance Companies, Insurance Industry, Robert Rubin, Debt Collectors, Citigroup Stock, Credit Card Interest Rates, Wall Street Crisis, Citigroup Bailout, Good People, American Insurance Group, Bad-Deals, Ron Shelp, Good-Deals, Citigroup, Bailout Outrage, Business News

Citigroup and AIG employ thousands of good people. But they have had rotten apples in leadership. They created a culture that is probably impossible to change or fix.

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