Is common sense dead in America?

Thomas Paine; a painting by Auguste Millière (1880), after an engraving by William Sharp after a portrait by George Romney (1792) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This writer thinks so:
http://personalliberty.com/2013/08/19/the-death-of-common-sense-is-the-death-of-the-rule-of-law/

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