May 30, 2008 by Jeremy.

I can totally relate to this story because when I was a young boy my dad gave me an empty shotgun shell to take to school for show and tell. The kids thought it was cool and the teachers didn’t think I was going to kill anyone.

I guess the difference is that it was 20 years ago and I went to a private school.

Taken from the story:

This week’s outrage comes to us from Winchendon, Massachusetts where, in yet another case of  “zero-tolerance” enforcement defying common sense, fourth-grader Bradley Geslak was suspended from Toy Town Elementary School for bringing a Memorial Day souvenir to school.

When we let Common Sense have its place again?

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May 24, 2008 by Jeremy.

John A. Ward who is a former teacher at Tucson High Magnet School seems to think so in an opinion piece he wrote for the Tucson Citizen entitled Guest opinion: Raza studies gives rise to racial hostility.

Coherent Thought hates all forms of racism especially when they’re being taught by our public schools.

Read John’s opinion and tell us what you think.

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May 20, 2008 by Jeremy.

Back in March a guy named Mark Beverly was fired from his job at a gas station convenience store because he stepped in to protect his co-worker from what he saw as a possible attacker.

The company he worked for said that he broke company policy by getting involved in the situation.

So I guess the saying that, “No good deed goes unpunished” is sometimes very true. On top of this problem the man has been denied unemployment because he was fired due to breaking a company policy.

I for one applaud the man for doing the right thing and I hope someone else in his community sees what he did as a good characteristic trait and hires him because of that.

Sometimes Common Sense means going against the system.

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May 9, 2008 by Jeremy.

This is a valid question. Common Sense tells us that the value we get from a gallon of gas, as opposed to the alternative, is well worth the price. That really isn’t a valid argument for most so we need to look at it a little deeper.

Coherent Thought has addressed this issue in the past: HIGH GAS PRICES GOT YOU DOWN? which I suggest you read before going on here.

But its been a year so we’ll talk about it again. I recently came across a website that says that gas prices are indeed too high. The site has some great points on its “What Can I Do?” page. Those are all great ideas that will help drive the demand for oil down. Unfortunately, it would take quite literally everyone in the world to take to these ideas to have any impact whatsoever. Also a lot of fuel is used in industrial ways making all of those points invalid in that situation which would leave China with a continued high demand for oil.

The site also makes a huge error in saying that the government has no fault in the high gas prices which is absurdly untrue. The oil companies make about 8 cents on the dollar, refiners about 4 cents, and the U.S. Federal Government has an 18.4 cent tax on every gallon of fuel not to mention state taxes on gasoline.

So Common Sense tells us that the government does indeed have something to do with the price of gasoline.

As to whether its too high, it looks like to me most of you are still DRIVING to work every morning.

So until the price gets so high that you won’t get in your vehicle and drive to work the gas price is not too high.

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May 6, 2008 by Jeremy.

That’s right I went to see Ben Stein’s new movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed and I must say it is the perfect film for anyone using some Common Sense.

The basic premise is why Intelligent Design is not even allowed to be argued in academia but the true point of the film is to show that freedoms are being taken away from the American people and that is something that should worry us way more than it seems to at the moment.

The part that really blew my mind was at the end when Richard Dawkins admits that Intelligent Design is feasible as long as God was not the designer. That really shows his true intentions for believing in evolution. He just doesn’t want to answer to God. If you don’t know who Richard Dawkins is then that is good for you. (Keep in mind we’re not a religious site and we are not trying to convince anyone to that end on this site, we just hope you use some Common Sense on the matter.)

If you consider yourself a person with some Common Sense then you need to see this film.

So go see expelled and learn why there is “No Intelligence Allowed”.

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