http://www.considercommonsense.com common sense authors using political common sense for common sense solutions Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:00:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just because we have not been commenting on the two Presidential campaigns for some weeks does not mean Common Sense Politics has not been watching those two candidates and their respective campaign activities. To be quite honest, it's been funny and very entertaining and we think that a man like ... http://www.considercommonsense.com/2008/07/24/latest-news-from-the-campaign-trails/ The history of mankind is filled with stories about so called ‘Lost Tribes, Lost Cities, Lost Civilizations' and so on. Images of Atlantis, the Incas and the Etruscans and many others come to mind and there has always been a certain amount of mystery and curiosity associated with that. It ... http://www.considercommonsense.com/2008/07/19/the-%e2%80%98lost-tribe%e2%80%99-what-happened-to-republicans/ At one time or another in our lives we all have heard the old saying "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with B.S." And B.S. does not stand for Barbara Streisand. Another saying suggests that "Offense is the best Defense." Couple these two and you have NASA ... http://www.considercommonsense.com/2008/07/14/global-warming-novel-coninued/ We all have heard buzzwords from politicians over the many years since the invention of political slogans. Many of them have become bumper stickers as well and have been effective while others have been not so successful. Overall though, since they keep popping up, politicians and agenda driven people and ... http://www.considercommonsense.com/2008/07/09/the-inherent-dangers-of-political-slogans/ 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 ... http://www.considercommonsense.com/2008/07/04/happy-birthday-america/ This is the second of two Presidential candidate's assessments, this one about Barack Obama. Like we did with Senator McCain, Common Sense Politics will not go into deep detail when it comes to his background and upbringing but will instead focus more on recent history and events in his life. ... http://www.considercommonsense.com/2008/06/29/candidate%e2%80%99s-assessment-barack-obama/ This is the first of two Presidential candidate's assessments and using strictly alphabetical order, today's review is about John McCain, the Republican Party nominee. Common Sense Politics will post a similar article next about Barack Obama, the Democrat party candidate. We will not delve into their life stories in any ... http://www.considercommonsense.com/2008/06/24/candidate%e2%80%99s-assessment-john-mccain/ For about two weeks, we have had two finalists in the Presidential sweepstakes, two United States Senators, John McCain (R) from Arizona and Barack Obama (D) from Illinois. We predicted this outcome well over three months ago in ‘And the Winner Are...' but the Primary season dragged on into June ... http://www.considercommonsense.com/2008/06/19/presidential-finalists-really/ 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 ... http://www.considercommonsense.com/2008/06/14/real-culprits-of-america-continued/ Our most recent article (The Great Oil Debate) was an attempt to bring some perspective and sense of reality to the current energy or more specifically, the oil crisis in our country. The essential conclusion was that the blame for the high prices for gasoline does NOT rest with the ... http://www.considercommonsense.com/2008/06/09/congressional-culprits-revealed/