Common Sense Politics

For some time now, one of today’s most beloved television shows is ‘American Idol’. Over seven years, it has maintained its popularity and this year’s production is just about ready to announce the 2008 American Idol. Similarly to the Miss America, Miss USA and the Miss World contests, there will be tears of joy by the winner and tears of despair by the many losers and also-rans. The winner and even some runner-ups will make tons of money in selling their singsongs to America’s youth. The entire program is programmed rather interestingly in that the three judges Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson and Brit Simon Cowell have been able to keep the show lively with their comments and criticisms. The six winners to date are Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks and Jordin Sparks. They all have become successful recording artists, more or less.

But this is not what this article is all about. In fact, we are starting a new chapter here at Common Sense Authors where we like to focus on who we consider real American Idols. Continue Reading »

As Common Sense Authors, we have written several articles in the past about the Immigration situation in America, more specifically the Illegal Immigration situation. While the attention in recent weeks has been on Continue Reading »

As Common Sense Authors have done in the past, we want to share an article with you we came across recently. It is actually the transcript of a speech delivered by William Tucker, a veteran journalist who spoke at Hillsdale College on January 29, 2008, during a conference on “Free Markets and Politics Today.” Mr. Tucker’s work has appeared in the Atlantic Journal, the Weekly Standard, National Review and Reader’s Digest among many other publications. His articles have won the John Hancock Award, the Gerald Loeb Award and the Amos Tuck Award among others. He has also published several books of which The Excluded American: Homelessness and Housing Policies has won the Mencken Award. Continue Reading »

As Common Sense Authors have done in the past, we want to share an article with you we came across recently. It is actually the transcript of a speech delivered by William Tucker, a veteran journalist who spoke at Hillsdale College on January 29, 2008, during a conference on “Free Markets and Politics Today.” Mr. Tucker’s work has appeared in the Atlantic Journal, the Weekly Standard, National Review and Reader’s Digest among many other publications. His articles have won the John Hancock Award, the Gerald Loeb Award and the Amos Tuck Award among others. He has also published several books of which The Excluded American: Homelessness and Housing Policies has won the Mencken Award. Due to its length, we will reprint this speech in two parts with the following proviso: “This reprint is with the permission from Imprimis, the national speech digest of Hillsdale College, www.hillsdale.edu.”

The following is the first part of William Tucker’s speech:  Continue Reading »

Since most of us survived the annual trauma of tax day last week, it might be of interest to shine a different light on our wonderful progressive Federal tax system. As Common Sense Politics, we have been bothered for a very long time by the class-warfare as played by politicians, primarily liberals, also known as Democrats. We all have heard the cries that the rich are getting richer and they do not pay their fair share of taxes. Well, somebody has put this in a more practical and understandable perspective, called ‘Bar Stool Economics’! Although its origins aren’t absolute, its content hasn’t been debunked.  It goes like this: Continue Reading »

It took a very long time for the Catholic Church to address their pedophile priest problems in America. In fact, had it not been for a huge number of aggressive lawyers across the country finding victims from past decades, the Catholic Church hierarchy would have been probably able to keep a lid on this scandal for who knows how many more years. But the media shined a bright light on the church and gave the many lawsuits filed on behalf of pedophile victims a great deal of publicity and over time, reality sat in and multi-million dollar settlements were reached in many dioceses in America. The total number is most likely to exceed a billion dollars.

For purposes of full disclosure, we here at Common Sense Authors are not Catholics and it is not Continue Reading »

One of the hottest issues in the Presidential election primary season on the Democrat’s side has been how to solve the situation of not having the states of Michigan and Florida represented at the Democrat convention in late August of this year. We here at Common Sense Politics think it worthy of analysis and review. Let us first look at the facts and events that began last year: Continue Reading »

About two weeks ago, Common Sense Politics posted an article about the Hate Rants of Barack Obama’s pastor, it is therefore only fair that we take a closer look at what happened in the Clinton campaign. On three different occasions including as recent as March 17, 2008, Democrat Presidential candidate, Senator Hillary Clinton told about her experiences during a visit to Bosnia in March 1996 with daughter Chelsea. She detailed that they came under sniper fire and had to dodge bullets Continue Reading »

As Common Sense Authors, we continue to find ourselves totally baffled by the inability of elected officials, people in power (like the President, Governors and Congressional Leaders) whether in politics or industry, and of course the vast media membership to confront the environmental movement in this country. This is especially true Continue Reading »

Once again, we here at Common Sense Authors find a combination of amusement and bewilderment when it comes to California Democrats. ‘Amusement’ only in the sense of great cynicism linked to the question: “What will they come up with next?” Continue Reading »

For the entire time of our website’s existence, we have stayed clear of issues dealing with race, be it white, black, brown, yellow or any other color. As Common Sense Authors, we believe that race is not a topic we can intelligently address and have stayed away from it for that very reason. However, we can talk about hate or hatred Continue Reading »

One of the major topics for some Presidential candidates has been Health Insurance and on September 9 of last year, Common Sense Authors posted an article titled The Universal Health Insurance Scam in an attempt to shed some clarity on the numbers thrown around by politicians, the media and so called experts. We here at Consider Common Sense have generally Continue Reading »

The second ‘Super Tuesday’ for the remaining Presidential candidates has come and gone. For us here as Common Sense Authors, we can share with you what you already know and we can still comment on it from our perspective. While there is a clear winner on the Republican side when John McCain attained more than enough delegates to get the nomination at the Continue Reading »

As Common Sense Authors, we always have and will continue to look at all issues from a point of view where we ask the question: “Does this make sense?” and then we will analyze it to make sense out of it or critique it when it does not. Knowing the media’s opposition to President Bush and war in general, it came as no surprise that ever since the War in Iraq began nearly five years ago, the mainstream Continue Reading »

California has long been held in public opinion as the place where things start, whether they, those things, are good, not so good or even outright bad. And generally speaking, Californians are somewhat proud of that. It was therefore only a matter of time before someone had to come up with this idea: Make Global Warming, or to be more precise, Climate change part of the science topics in all of California’s public schools. Continue Reading »