Some have remarked that common sense doesn’t seem to be very common
anymore. That’s one way of saying that common sense seems to be in short supply. I
notice this each week as I cover news stories that cause me to shake my head in disbelief.
What do I mean? Here are just a half dozen examples of a nation that seems to have lost
its common sense.

You know you live in a nation that has lost its common sense when an elementary
school in Michigan confiscates homemade cupcakes from a third-grade student because
he put green Army soldiers on them.

You know you live in a nation that has lost its common sense when you must
show identification to board a plane, cash a check or rent a video, but do not need to
show any ID to vote for people who will serve in Congress.

You know you live in a nation that has lost its common sense when a Maryland
grade school suspends a seven-year-old boy for two days because he points a breakfast
pastry that looks a bit like a gun and says “Bang, bang.”

You know you live in a nation that has lost its common sense when members of
Congress pass a 2700 page bill that will affect all of our lives and yet few admit they
even read the legislation.

You know you live in a nation that has lost its common sense when it requires
parental permission to go on a field trip or take an aspirin, but not to get an abortion.

You know you live in a nation that has lost its common sense when the federal
government considers whether to ban certain firearms and high capacity magazines while
sending Abrams tanks and F-16 fighter jets to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

These are just a few examples that suggest that something is wrong in this
country. We can come up with more examples. But these are sufficient to remind us that
common sense isn’t so common anymore, especially among our leaders in education and
government. It’s time that rational people with an ounce of common sense spoke up and
challenged this foolishness.