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Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump declared that he and his supporters were “the party of common sense.” In his Inaugural Address on January 20, Trump returned to this theme. With his flurry of executive orders, he said, “We will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense. It’s all about common sense.” I agree. But what is “common sense”? At the beginning of his Discourse on Method, René Descartes said that common sense was “the most widely distributed thing in the world.” Is it? Much as I admire Descartes, I have to note that he...

Here’s a question to consider: What the heck has happened to the Democratic Party? You don’t have to be a political scientist to realize that Democrats have lost their way. It’s one thing to have ideological disagreements with the other side — it’s something else altogether to abandon not only traditional American values but common sense itself. Let’s start with their “basket of deplorables” mindset. Hillary Clinton said it out loud in 2016, but this apparently is how many Democratic elites see half the country. If you question their agenda, you’re not just wrong — you’re immoral. Look at the...

The U.S. Department of Education is calling on the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) to revoke the titles and championships awarded to transgender athletes competing in girls’ and women’s sports during the Biden administration.

President Trump signs an executive order ensuring only biological women compete in women’s sports—a reality The Daily Wire exposed in Lady Ballers. While the Left calls it discrimination, common sense calls it fairness.

Lawmakers repeatedly added flights despite fears of delays and accidents.Congress has repeatedly voted to increase the number of daily flights at Reagan National Airport, adding departures that made life more convenient for lawmakers despite warnings that increased air traffic around Washington would raise the risk of delays and accidents.On Tuesday, an American Airlines regional jet with 64 people on board collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River near the airport. Authorities have said that none of those on either aircraft are believed to have survived.The causes of that collision are still unclear. But a look back...

Madonna faced immediate backlash Tuesday after sharing an anti-Trump message on X. Social media users savagely attacked the famous singer after she shared a post aligning with the LGBTQ+ community that simultaneously took aim at the Trump administration. “It’s so sad to watch our new Government slowly dismantling all the Freedoms we have been fighting for and WON over the years. (LGBT flag emoji) (broken heart emoji),” Madonna wrote, before adding, “Don’t give up the Fight!” People decided to fight against her instead. A number of internet users tore a strip out of the legendary singer for taking an anti-Trump...

BREAKING: Google Maps to update 'Gulf of Mexico' to ‘Gulf of America’ after Trump order - Fox

There is a major rumor circulating on Twitter/X right now that a Democrat senator is going to switch to the Republican party sometime in the next week. Jamel Holley, a former New Jersey Assemblyman and ally of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was the one who first mentioned this. Take a look:

It's been fun these past few months watching as a motley assortment of folks made their way to Mar-a-Lago to pay homage to President-elect Donald Trump, and it certainly had to be gratifying for Mr. Trump himself after years of being treated abominably by the media, big tech, a corrupt judicial system and various self-appointed mouthpieces for the left. The latest to beat a path to Palm Beach was Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), who made the trek to meet with Trump this past weekend. Nothing ruffles the feathers of the left and their media lapdogs more than the thought of...

President Joe Biden responded to reports of a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, and called for Congress to “pass commonsense gun safety laws.” In a press release from the White House, Biden highlighted how his administration had “taken aggressive action to combat the gun violence epidemic” and had “passed the most significant gun safety legislation in nearly 30 years.” Biden’s statement came after at least one teacher and one student at the Abundant Life Christian School were left dead after a shooter opened fire on Monday morning.

Former President Donald Trump played a much different tone than previously on the topic of abortion and women’s rights, saying his administration would be “great for women and their reproductive rights.” After delivering on his promise to anti-abortion groups to pick justices on the Supreme Court who would get Roe v. Wade overturned, the former president has sought to establish a middle ground on the topic of abortion. Following a series of devastating Republican electoral defeats that were largely over abortion rights, he has sought to distance himself from the topic altogether, culminating in him adopting vastly different rhetoric on...

HOUSTON, May 23 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump raised tens of millions of dollars during a fundraising swing through Texas this week, promising he would support the oil and gas industry by backing new pipelines and restoring fracking on federal land. [cut] A Houston fundraiser on Wednesday was hosted by oil billionaires Jeff Hildebrand, founder of Hilcorp Energy, the largest closely held U.S. oil firm; George Bishop, founder of GeoSouthern Energy; Harold Hamm, founder of Continental Resources; and Kelcy Warren, head of pipeline firm Energy Transfer Partners. Trump drew standing ovations when he promised to get more natural...

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that former President Donald Trump had “simple-minded ideas about how the world works.” Bolton said, “I think it’s important to understand, and this is especially important for Trump critics to understand, he doesn’t have a philosophy. He doesn’t think in policy terms, as that’s conventionally understood in Washington. He thinks in anecdotal, ad hoc, transactional terms, seeing through the prism of how does this benefit Donald Trump.”

Arkansas Republican Governor Sarah Sanders said on Tuesday that the state would ban the use of “X” on driver’s licenses and that state IDs must identify the individual as either male or female, according to an announcement first shared with The Daily Wire. “This policy is just common sense,” Sanders told The Daily Wire. “Only women give birth, men shouldn’t play women’s sports, and there are only two genders. As long as I’m Governor, Arkansas state government will not endorse nonsense.” “This change announced today reflects a commonsense approach that ensures a license or ID issued by the State of...

Children who grow up in politically liberal households are more likely to suffer mental health problems than their conservative peers, according to a new study. An Institute for Family Studies-Gallup report found that "political ideology is one of the strongest predictors" of which caregiving styles a parent adopts, and conservative parents are associated with the best mental health outcomes for their children. "Conservative and very conservative parents are the most likely to adopt the parenting practices associated with adolescent mental health," study author Jonathan Rothwell, who is also the principal economist at Gallup and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings...

"We made a tolerance offer to Brussels: every country can deal with #migration the way they want to, but they cannot force #Hungary to copy the failed migration policies of Western Europe. We don’t want #terrorism, gang wars and mini Gazas in Budapest!" Viktor Orban Twitter

Many leading Republicans and conservatives want someone other than Donald Trump to run for President in 2024. But this judgment requires an assessment of Trump’s vices and virtues in the context of our current political and cultural circumstances, as well as an assessment of other prospective Republican presidential candidates. Tom Klingenstein, Chairman of the Claremont Institute, explains Trump's Virtues.

It’s not often that we ask to reproduce an article that has already appeared elsewhere, but this one is exceptional. John Lofton, a Christian, here interviews Craig Palmer, who, along with Randy Thornhill, is one of two evolutionist academic authors of the book, A Natural History Of Rape: Biological Bases Of Sexual Coercion (MIT Press). The book argues that rape is to be expected on the basis of our alleged evolutionary heritage. Many other evolutionists have attacked the book’s thesis; this interview brilliantly spotlights the inconsistency between evolution and the idea of moral values in a society. We do not...

Love her or hate her, Rosie O'Donnell is out here spittin' facts. Rosie recently joined the Bialik Breakdown podcast hosted by Mayim Bialik (who you may know from The Big Bang Theory and Jeopardy!), where they discussed mental health. Rosie is a lesbian, leftist Hollywood star, but that hasn't knocked out ALL her common sense... and the trans activists are NOT happy about it. Rosie O'Donnell is being canceled by trans rights activists for speaking common sense. Check out what she has to say about the "non-binary" identity: VIDEO AT LINK.......... When Rosie's kid told her that her stuffed animals...

DETROIT (AP) — Owners of new Ford vehicles will be able to tune in to AM radio in their cars, trucks and SUVs after all. CEO Jim Farley wrote in social media postings Tuesday that the company is reversing a decision to scrub the band after speaking with government policy leaders who are concerned about keeping emergency alerts that often are sounded on AM stations. “We’ve decided to include it on all 2024 Ford and Lincoln vehicles,” Farley wrote on Twitter. “For any owners of Ford’s EVs without AM broadcast capability, we’ll offer a software update” to restore it, Farley...