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Adam Meyerson has been president of The Philanthropy Roundtable. He also served as vice president for educational affairs at the Heritage Foundation from 1993 to 2001. The following is adapted from a speech delivered at Washington D.C. in the “First Principles on First Fridays” lecture series sponsored by Hillsdale College on January 8, 2010. Due [...]

            For a very long period of time, the United States Government has issued statistics on employment as well as unemployment. The Department of Labor has been reporting on the job labor market for nearly a century and while its numbers are sometimes questioned as to accuracy, they have generally been accepted as reliable. Over [...]

            We here at Common Sense University are getting very close to conclude that the vast majority of Americans are considered to be stupid or dumb. We base this on a recent event where the votes of over seven million California voters were overturned by a reportedly gay judge as he adjudicated a case that [...]

            There are many situations and happenings that causes someone to shake one’s head due to its total irrationality and indefensible content and nature. The recent ruling by Clinton-appointed Federal Judge Susan Bolton is one of them when she partially struck down a perfectly legitimate Arizona State Law and thus preventing Arizona to enact it. [...]

            The one thing President Obama has shown consistently from his days as Presidential contender until now (and probably for another two plus years) is the “Mess”.  As candidate Obama, he spoke of the Mess of the Bush Presidency and no sooner was he elected President did he feel the urgent need to remind the [...]

            The Editor of the Claremont Review of Books, Charles R. Kesler is the Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. The following is adapted from a lecture at Hillsdale College on February 1, 2010 during a four-day conference on the “New Deal”. Due to its length, Common Sense Politics has reprinted this [...]

            The Editor of the Claremont Review of Books, Charles R. Kesler is the Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. The following is adapted from a lecture at Hillsdale College on February 1, 2010 during a four-day conference on the “New Deal”. Due to its length, Common Sense Politics is reprinting this [...]

            The Editor of the Claremont Review of Books, Charles R. Kesler is the Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. The following is adapted from a lecture at Hillsdale College on February 1, 2010 during a four-day conference on the “New Deal”. Due to its length, Common Sense Politics is reprinting this [...]

            It all happened within a few days and it is to our knowledge one of the weirdest episodes in U.S. military history. The U.S. Commander in Afghanistan, Four-Star General Stanley McChrystal gets exposed by a liberal (way leftist) publication article in ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine a few days before it is even available on newsstands [...]

            No, she is not dead in the common use of the acronym. But something has ended and we consider that a good thing. Her career has ended! While Helen Thomas was in many ways a ground breaker for women in journalism, she was also for a very long time at a minimum very controversial. [...]

            Tomorrow marks nine weeks since the oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. That is more than two months in duration and there seems to be no end in sight for this incredible disaster. Throughout this period, only one thing seemed to have been around  and that is called the blame game. Even [...]

            Nothing will explain the bias of the liberal mainstream media better than their collective silence on our ever increasing annual deficits and our national debt. It appears that the Democrats in Congress and President Obama recognize that the November elections might bring about changes that will end their reckless spending sprees and so they [...]

            It has been nearly seven weeks since the BP oil rig platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers on April 20. And while remedial actions to stop the oil flow out of this well have succeeded only partially and definitely not timely, one clear result so far has been that all [...]

            The world has been watching with great unease what is currently happening in Greece. The country is hugely indebted and it appears there is no real solution in site. It is in a way a tragedy that comes to show us that we cannot spend more than what we have. By calling it a [...]

            The past few weeks have been filled with indications that the mid-term elections in early November of this year have the potential of some major re-alignment in Congress. And there are also signs that incumbency might be a serious negative for many current member of Congress and as we can see, their reactions are [...]

            Shortly after we started Common Sense Politics we posted an article on January 2, 2007, entitled ‘What should be done to fix our Immigration issues?’ We reviewed the status of Immigration reform going back more than twenty years when IRCA (Immigration Reform and Control Act) was signed into law by then President Ronald Reagan [...]

            Former President George W. Bush has been and still is being blamed for everything that is wrong in America and to a certain point also the rest of the world. We do not intend to list here all the things he is blamed and ‘responsible’ for. We here at Common Sense University totally disagree [...]

            On January 20, 1993, Bill Clinton became the 42nd President of the United States of America. With him, this country got the first President of the “I – Me – My” generation. According to President Clinton, he had never done anything wrong in his life, he had explanations for everything and always found a [...]

            This might come as a surprise to readers of our articles here at Common Sense University but it is true. We are willing to make a confession. We agree with the fact that there is definitely Climate Change  occurring on our beloved planet Earth. It has happened for thousands of years and so we [...]

            This months marks the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King in Memphis, Tennessee. We think not to be alone when we wonder what would have happened had he lived and continued to work for his goals of a color-blind society and the improvement of lives of [...]

            Actor Michael Richards, better known as ‘Kramer’ from the sitcom Seinfeld got in very hot water when he openly insulted black members of his audience during one of his night-club acts in November 2006. He allegedly had become irritated by a group of black men who were noisy and kept on talking during his [...]

            The CIA announced directly or indirectly last week that it can be assumed that the country of Iran now has the capability to put nuclear warheads on missile weaponry, if not today, in the very near future. All we can say emphatically to that is: Thanks for Nothing, President Obama!             In your Inaugural [...]

            Because of the uncertainty of his return to the professional golf circuit, Tiger Woods’ longtime caddy Steve Williams contracted until the end of July with an Australian television station to broadcast golf and soccer events. This left Tiger Woods in a peculiar situation when he planned and announced his return for the Masters tournament, [...]

            It would be funny were it not so serious. As the Healthcare Reform Act has now become law and people and some experts are spending real time with this legislation, truly interesting and even mind-boggling realities surface. We have to remember that this bill is well over two thousand pages thick (at least five [...]

YES folks, the Democrats in Congress (House of Representatives) passed healthcare reform legislation by approving the Senate version on December 21, 2010, by a vote of 219 to 212 without one single Republican vote and 34 Democrats voting against the bill. This was truly a historic event! But as it can be in all such [...]