And in the vast majority of cases, a common sense approach will lead to a common sense response.
Or are the laws a "common sense response to a serious national problem," namely the "unique public threat" posed by those who "prey on the most vulnerable members of society," as the Bush administration argues in defense of the Connecticut statute?
What a logical, common sense response to an Michael Noer's overblown, insecure, neanderthal piece.
At first, it seems to be a common sense response to the argument from evil quite consonant with what we would expect the average person to say.
I also have no doubt we are overdoing it, and have lost a common sense response to normal childhood behavior.
Carol Schatz, president of the Central City Assn. of Los Angeles, said the ordinances are a "common sense" response to the enormous encampments.
In Leone's film, Blondie's cynicism and brutality were the common-sense responses to the irrational West.
Social Security, environmental protection and minimum-wage standards were all common-sense responses to problems in the American experience.
But at the moment, the common-sense response -- an avian flu vaccine for humans -- is in very short supply.
"This is a common-sense response to a long-standing problem, which has diverted resources and staff attention from families most in need," she said.
"This is the most common-sense response to the problem of aquifer pollution," said Daniel Lorimier, a spokesman for the Connecticut Fund for the Environment.
