Common Sense for the 21st Century

a political blog, for My Countrymen

Sunday, September 21, 2025

Ben Franklin speaks

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On September 17, 1787, just before the delegates to the Constitutional Convention were asked to sign the document, Ben Franklin asked his f...
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Antisemitism in America: A Solution

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Before I start, I must declare my bias.  I am biased against stupid human beings.  But by that pejorative term, I do NOT mean low IQ persons...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

The Common Sense Party

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America needs the Common Sense Party because our democracy is a sham and the two major parties are corrupt beyond repair.[1] We believe that...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Low-Income Housing

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A hypothetical.  Imagine, ... I am a retired senior, and my sole source of income is my monthly Social Security check.  I rent an apartment ...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Hate Speech

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In the year 2005, a Dutch cartoonist by name of Kurt Westergaard drew this brilliant cartoon.  In case it needs explanation, it depicts the ...
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Sunday, January 5, 2025

Israel-Palestine

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To those of my readers who entertain the notion that the Palestinians are the good guys, and the Zionist Jews are the bad guys, here is a ch...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

The Problems with 21st Century American Democracy

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There are two, only two, major problems with 21st century American democracy.  The first is the abject ignorance of the average American v...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

What Went Wrong?

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For starters, we need to agree that Democrats can’t blame the winners for winning.  Trump, his advisers and his MAGA voters got what they ...
Sunday, November 10, 2024

The Morning After

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I left my Watch Party at 9:30pm, it felt too much like 2016 over again.  And I don’t like to cry in public (fact is, I don’t cry, I get an...
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Friday, October 4, 2024

Silence Ain't Always Golden

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For years, decades even, I thought that silence in any relationship, close or distant, didn't communicate, or communicated poorly.  I ...
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