Common Sense University

            Well now, this does not sound correct, right? There are no Olympic events this year. Everybody should know this and so do we. We just decided on this title to summarize the major activities of the month of August. There were no Olympic events in the true sense, no medals were handed out, no [...]

            As we did last week, we are presenting excerpts of a speech delivered on May 8, 2009 by Hillsdale College Associate Professor of Art Anthony Frudakis at the dedication of a statue of Abraham Lincoln. We are reprinting this article as follows: “Reprinted by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College.”
Allen C. Guelzo [...]

            As we have done several times during the past months and years, we will reprint an article we read in a publication of Hillsdale College called Imprimis in their May/June 2009 issue. It was an address delivered on April 16, 2009 at the dedication of a statue of Thomas Jefferson by Hillsdale College Associate [...]

            Ever since she appeared on the nation’s political stage in late August of 2008, Sarah Palin has been the most controversial and vilified person in America. When then Republican Presidential candidate John McCain asked the until then little known governor of Alaska to be his running mate, she had about one to two good [...]

Another Jackie Mason classic!

            For several weeks now but especially ever since the highly anticipated news conference by President Obama on July 22 on prime time television, it appears as if America has awakened to the reality that sheer irrationality and utter nonsense has its limits. This news conference did absolutely nothing for the President. He repeated his [...]