Common Sense Restored
23-May-08
232 years ago a simple pamphlet was published in the fledgling United States. It’s title, Common Sense. It’s author, Anonymous. As I write almost two and a half centuries later, I feel it my turn to put pen to paper, as it were, and share a few of my feelings concerning “common sense” in America. Within these pages I hope to identify Common Sense, where it has gone, and what we can do to get it back.
What is the one thing that most Americans concern themselves with at this point in our history, above all others? Is it global warming? The war in Iraq and Afghanistan? The high price of gasoline? The natural disasters in Asia, the fires raging in California, the storms and tornadoes of the Midwest, or hurricanes of the Gulf Coast that tug at our tender mercies with images of dying and the dead? Or perhaps it is something quite simple, yet very, very close to home. (more…)