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/

June 2, 2012

Presidential election choice is suboptimal, as usual

Election choices are so poor that I am not surprised so few Americans even bother to vote each November. Democrats are so disappointing as they continue to chip away at our underlying American culture and values in pursuit of their …

April 25, 2012

Views on the News – 4/21/2012

Filed under: In The News,Politics In General - 25 Apr 2012

Conservatives across the nation should be of good cheer since the United States remains a center-right nation, and this November, voters will choose common sense over fiscally reckless extremism in what will be a landslide conservative victory. Republicans will …

April 21, 2012

Romney facts you need to know

Filed under: The Republicans - 21 Apr 2012

Did you know that Romney received a dual degree from BOTH Harvard Business School and Harvard Law … graduating Cum Laude?

Notice a really clear difference between Romney and Obama?

April 18, 2012

Views on the News – 4/14/2012

Filed under: In The News - 18 Apr 2012

Karl Marx said history repeats itself, “first as tragedy, then as farce,” but Barack Obama has reversed that because his first term was certainly farce and his second will be tragedy. Obama has “Forrest Gumped” his way through his …

April 3, 2012

Views on the News – 3/31/2012

Filed under: In The News - 03 Apr 2012

Today America is in the midst of a revolution because America has elected a President who has vowed to fundamentally transform America, but what he meant by transformation was changing this country into something the people did not want. …

March 26, 2012

Views on the News – 3/24/2012

Filed under: Politics In General - 26 Mar 2012

America has NOT been prospering for the last four years during which Barack Obama has been President, and everyone knows it. The U.S. sovereign debt rating was downgraded for the first time while he occupied the Oval Office. Federal …

March 22, 2012

Views on the News – 3/17/2012

Filed under: In The News - 22 Mar 2012

Analyzing the latest polls and races across the country, it’s looking really good for Republicans in the 2012 election. The latest Rasmussen Report found 25% of likely voters Strongly Approve of Obama’s performance, while 44% Strongly Disapprove for a …

March 15, 2012

Views on the News – 3/10/2012

Filed under: Politics In General - 15 Mar 2012

Even after three years in office, Obama remains a political Rorschach test: His friends still project their brightest hopes on him; and His enemies still project their deepest nightmares. If President Obama wins a second term, liberals believe:

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March 13, 2012

Congress: Fix it or start over

Filed under: American Government - 13 Mar 2012

To say that Americans have lost confidence in Congress is a huge understatement. Congress approval ratings of 12% are at all time lows, with disapproval ratings of 84% at all time highs, while 56% of Americans surveyed thought replacing …

March 9, 2012

Republicans, how do we get there from here?

Anybody-But-Obama has been the Republican campaign strategy so far. This is not sufficient to win the election in November. What voters need and want is a vision of the future that a Republican offers and how it would …

March 7, 2012

Views on the News – 3/3/2012

Filed under: In The News - 07 Mar 2012

The achievements of the Obama administration, if left unchecked, may be irreversible, and that the time remaining to stop permanent damage is dwindling away. Right-wing warnings of impending tyranny express, in hyperbolic form, well-grounded dread: that conservative America may …

March 2, 2012

Views on the News – 2/25/2012

Filed under: In The News - 02 Mar 2012

In 2008, Presidential candidate Obama promised to fundamentally change America and he has succeeded beyond anyone’s dreams, because he has replaced the Declaration of Independence with his own Declaration of Dependence. The most recent published reports show dependency is …

February 28, 2012

Obama has already lost, and doesn’t even know it

Barack Obama is a lame duck President already, but probably doesn’t realize it since he is surrounded by leftist zealots who insulate him from any contrary opinions and shielded by the partisan mainstream media. Obama’s popularity began falling right …

February 23, 2012

Views on the News – 2/18/2012

Filed under: In The News - 23 Feb 2012

This November’s election will not be decided by voters affirmatively choosing the Republican candidate, but rather voters deciding whether they were going to reject Barack Obama. Second-term elections are always a referendum on the incumbent, not the challenger. …

February 16, 2012

Views on the News – 2/11/2012

Filed under: In The News - 16 Feb 2012

The United States is a nation whose national character has been shaped by the perception that there is limitless economic abundance, and Americans believed it was possible, with the right combination of intelligence, hard work, a little luck and good …

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