Author: David Coughlin

Profile: David Coughlin is a political pundit, editor of the policy action planning web site “Return to Common Sense,” and an active member of the White Plains Tea Party. He retired from IBM after a short career in the U.S. Army. He currently resides with his wife of 40 years in Hawthorne, NY. He was educated at West Point (Bachelor of Science, 1971) and the University of Alabama in Huntsville (Masters, Administrative Science, 1976).

Website: http://www.returntocommonsensesite.com/

September 13, 2012

Views on the News – 9/8/2012

Filed under: Politics In General - 13 Sep 2012

Barack Obama will be a one-term President, and in the end it will not even be close. Obama and the Democrats are launching the final stretch of the 2012 campaign and will be trying to sell a fanciful story of …

September 6, 2012

Views on the News – 9/1/2012

Filed under: In The News - 06 Sep 2012

The mudslinging in this 2012 Presidential election is worse than any other in the last 60 years, and it’s mostly been one-sided with Democrats lobbing personal attacks on a weekly basis to distract voters from any questions on Obama’s record.

August 29, 2012

Views on the News – 8/25/2012

Filed under: In The News - 29 Aug 2012

In the first week since Paul Ryan joined Mitt Romney on the Republican ticket, something subtle yet fundamental has happened to the country, the mantle of leadership has shifted. Barack Obama and Joe Biden (certainly the latter) occupy office …

August 22, 2012

Views on the News – 8/18/2012

Filed under: In The News - 22 Aug 2012

Romney will beat Obama by a landslide, and the signs are becoming clearer as we get closer to the election. Romney’s choice of Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as a running mate makes me even more confident that he will …

August 15, 2012

Views on the News – 8/11/2012

Filed under: In The News - 15 Aug 2012

Historically, 75% of undecided voters ultimately go to the challenger, so Mitt Romney will become the next President of the United States in a landslide. This landslide win for Romney, will be largely due to the failure of the …

August 9, 2012

Views on the News – 8/4/2012

Filed under: In The News - 09 Aug 2012

In the course of four short years, President Obama has transformed from “The Messiah” into “The Pariah,” because voters aren’t buying his distractions anymore. It started with the failed stimulus that promised to buy our way out of the …

August 4, 2012

Time to deal with the elephants in the room

Filed under: Politics In General - 04 Aug 2012

The two Presidential candidates refuse to acknowledge the “elephant in the room” and prefer to deal with issues only after it deteriorates into a national crisis. Unfortunately there is not one, but a half dozen elephants in the room and …

August 1, 2012

Views on the News – 7/28/2012

Filed under: In The News - 01 Aug 2012

Like rats leaving a sinking ship, Democrats are abandoning Barack Obama in this election in droves for varied reasons but his presence has become toxic in their reelection campaigns. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi instructed Democrats in the U.S. House …

July 29, 2012

If we want smaller government, drastic action may be required

Our Constitution documents how we “…establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…” Recognizing that the Constitution was open-ended, the 10th Amendment …

July 25, 2012

Views on the News – 7/21/2012

Filed under: In The News - 25 Jul 2012

In 1979, then-President Jimmy Carter told the nation he had detected a malaise in America, “a crisis of confidence … that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will,” and now President Barack Obama seems …

July 18, 2012

Views on the News – 7/14/2012

Filed under: Politics In General - 18 Jul 2012

In 2008, Barack Obama’s rhetoric was “exciting,” especially when he talked about a “different kind of politics,” but there is no trace of that Obama today and all that is left is a tired liberal trying to leverage identity politics …

July 11, 2012

Views on the News – 7/7/2012

Filed under: In The News - 11 Jul 2012

There is a compelling divergence regarding President Obama’s reelection chances when we consider what the poll numbers are telling us versus what the boots on the ground are indicating, because the partisan media is overtly shading the news to favor …

July 5, 2012

Views on the News – 6/30/2012

Filed under: In The News - 05 Jul 2012

Most of what we know about Barack Obama comes from his two autobiographies, but his literary fabrications are now being revealed as huge embellishments or completely fictional. It’s becoming increasingly clear that President Obama is not burdened with too …

June 28, 2012

Views on the News – 6/23/2012

Filed under: In The News - 28 Jun 2012

Barack Obama ran for President four years ago with a simple message: Hope and Change, promising to make Washington work and turn the country and our economy around, which was inspirational, passionate, historic… and full of it. Four years …

June 19, 2012

Views on the News – 6/16/2012

Filed under: Politics In General - 19 Jun 2012

If the election were held tomorrow, Mitt Romney would be the next President of the United States because many voters are afraid and fearful people usually try to change their circumstances. American voters are not wedged into a voting …

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