Common Sense Politics

Who would have thought in 1776 that the newly crafted Declaration of Independence would be the birth of a nation celebrating it’s 232nd birthday today, the United States of America. The 56 signers of this document represented the original thirteen states and it concludes with ‘we mutually pledged to each other our Lives, our Fortunes […]

Political Common Sense cannot quite stop talking more about the real culprits of America as we identified them in our previous article, Congressional Culprits Revealed. First off, let us remind ourselves what the United States Constitution says about the branches of government:
The Executive and Legislative are constitutionally equal branches of the United States

On May 15, 2008, four California Supreme Court Justices made history! They overturned a ban on same sex marriages as voted on by California residents in 2000, known as Proposition 22. This proposition explicitly defined marriage as being a union between a man and a woman. Not that this is anything new; this has been […]

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 […]

 
Congress has now been under ‘new’ leadership for about seven months and it’s not a pretty picture to say the least. But then, one should not look for pretty pictures when it comes to politics in this country. Whether it is responding to their constituents or following their true beliefs, the Democrats are focusing on […]

 
The terrible events on April 16 on the campus of Virginia Tech University have been recorded, reported and debated ad nausea in all media outlets for the past few weeks and when everything was said and done, they started all over again by looking at different angles etc. We do not intend to contribute here. […]

 
     The 110th Congress opened for business January 4, 2007. This year’s event was different from previous ones in that for the first time since January 1995, there was a change in management…the Democrats are in control of both houses of Congress. It was unusual for another reason. For the first time in American history, […]