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Relevance: 31% Posted on: August 25, 2009
Dear Reader: This “BEST of Common Sense” comment originally aired on September 20, 2007. The growing use of zero-tolerance policies — especially having anything to do with guns — is the opposite of common sense. Mass insanity may be more popular these days, but I still prefer common sense. —PJ…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: October 27, 2010
Regular readers know that I’ve had my share of troubles in Oklahoma, where a politically-motivated Attorney General abused his office years ago to threaten myself and other initiative petitioners. Thankfully, we won that battle. Now, with a critical election nearly upon us, there’s a different problem in Oklahoma. Put another…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 23, 2021
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: * 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela. * 1900: Sergeant William Harvey Carney became…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 23, 2022
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: * 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela. * 1900: Sergeant William Harvey Carney became…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 23, 2019
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela.1900: Sergeant William Harvey Carney became the first African…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 23, 2023
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: * 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar (portrait, above) entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela. * 1900: Sergeant William Harvey…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 23, 2024
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the 8th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Other May 23 events include: * 1813: South American independence leader Simón Bolívar (portrait, above) entered Mérida, where he was proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”), leading the invasion of Venezuela. * 1900: Sergeant William Harvey…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 29, 2023
Where without any change in circumstances the things held to be just by law are seen not to correspond with the concept of justice in actual practice, such laws are not really just; but wherever the laws have ceased to be advantageous because of a change in circumstances, in that…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: May 25, 2014
On May 25, 1810, citizens of Buenos Aires expelled Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros starting the Argentine War of Independence. On May 25, 1925, John T. Scopes was indicted for violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school. The Scopes Trial — formally…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: October 17, 2001
I'm a loving guy. But some things just make me mad, I'm sorry. Jefferson Middle School in Fort Wayne, Indiana has an image of a Minuteman on a wall near the main door. It is, or was, a depiction of the kind of man who fought for our freedom and…