© 2014, the Institute for Applied Common Sense I considered entitling this post, “In Defense of Donald Sterling, the U. S. Veterans Admin...

© 2014, the Institute for Applied Common Sense Now that we’ve had some time to think about it, we’ve concluded: 1. Pundits, experts, a...

We first generated this piece in January 2011, just minutes before President Obama delivered his State of the Union Speech at that time. ...

© 2011, 2013, and 2014, the Institute for Applied Common Sense We considered calling this piece, What Would Dr. King Do? , or What Would ...

In theory, if thoughts we share in our articles truly constitute Common Sense , then the approaches recommended should be able to stand the...

We originally generated this post in 2009, when we thought that the level of political discord in this country was at its peak. At that t...

Prior to making some possible progress on the foreign relations front in connection with Syria's chemical weapons arsenal, and the war...

In one of our earliest posts back in 2008, we examined some of the issues which might potentially arise should the federal government becom...

© 2013, the Institute for Applied Common Sense “It does not matter who my Father was; it matters who I remember he was.” - Anne Sexton...

Earlier today, we ran across an article indicating that spending on the western wildfires raging here in the U.S. had reached 1 billion do...