Uncommon Common Sense

My older brother and I are thirteen months apart. His favorite pastime when we were young was pushing my buttons; I always reacted exactly the way he wanted me to. I cannot count the number of times my mom told me, "If you will stop reacting the way he wants you to, it won't be fun any more and he'll stop doing it." I never could make myself stop reacting and thankfully, we both grew up. Watching the Democrats react to Trump would be hysterically funny if it weren't so blooming dangerous to the future of our country. Trump plays the mainstream media/"moderates"/Democrats/Never-Trumpers like a Stradivarius and they always give him the satisfying hissy fit he wants. Case in point, the postal service and mail-in ballots. Let's talk about the Postal Service and then we'll talk about voting by mail. A) The Postal Service has been losing money like a sieve for decades. Because they are a government-run entity, not a private entity, they lose money with...

 A friend of mine, who has a PhD, posted the following on Facebook last week: "If you have been wondering why posts that share false information about Covid19 keep getting removed - it's because people can literally die because people believe the content of that post. As in dead. So yeah. Thanks tech companies!" After I pulled myself off the floor. We had a discussion on Facebook about his comment. More about this later. This was actually followed by several sleepless nights, when I wondered (again) where our country is headed. Over the last few months, I have watched with anguish as we have, like so many lemmings, allowed our freedom of speech to be curtailed, our businesses to be shuttered, our freedom to worship be eroded and sat idly by while violent marxist thugs have hidden under media cover of "peaceful protests" while destroying city after city. Let us begin with a review of what the first amendment actually says: "Congress shall make no law  respec...