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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Rediscovered legal document not only dissolved the marriage of Thomas Paine but gave him cash in hand to buy his ticket to America A torn sheet of 18th century paper which tumbled out of a novel by Tobias Smollett found in a cellar, has proved to be the legal document which not only dissolved the marriage of Thomas Paine, but gave him cash in hand to buy his ticket to America...
dcat (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
It appears that conservatives who are embracing Thomas Paine may not quite understand him . Yes, I realize I'm grabbing at low-hanging fruit when I assert ignorance on the part of Glen Beck and Sarah Palin. But it's not my fault that low-hanging fruit has become the face of modern conservatism.
The Daily Doubter (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... extremist political views. For example, he has depicted himself as a modern day reincarnation of Thomas Paine and has cited Thomas Paine to justify "refounding" America by dismantling the welfare state and progressive taxation. The actual, real life Thomas Paine - as opposed to the one that only exists in Beck's demented imagination - wrote in...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
strong><span class="subhead">Suicide is not the answer</span></strong> <em><strong>The Rev. Fran T. Cary, pastor of Trinity A.M.E. Church, Kansas City, Kan.:</strong></em> In the late 1700s, Thomas Paine penned the words, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” Considering that the colonies were warring...
The Steady Drip (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Little Barry Goes to School By John Armor Published Today From Our Writers Unrated John Armor John Armor practiced law in the U.S. Supreme Court for 33 years, and is currently the counsel for the American Civil Rights Union, whose website is at: www.theacru.org . He lives now in Highlands, N. Carolina, and is working on a book about Thomas Paine. View all articles by John Armor From Our...
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... basic principle, Common Sense remains a powerful and persuasive document over 200 years later. As Paine’s pamphlet resonated with American colonists in 1776, Sarah Palin resonates with Middle America 200 years later. And, like Common Sense written by the anonymous Paine, Palin’s basic attraction is not personal. Palin’s extraordinary popularity derives not from her...
View From Above (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country. --Thomas Paine I will remove one or two brigades a month, and get all of our combat troops out of Iraq within 16 months... Let there be no doubt: I will lose this war. --Barack Obama We will accept nothing less than full victory! --Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower I'm not sure we have the right...
Spiked Online (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
In this piece for a new collection of essays commemorating the death of Thomas Paine, Brendan O’Neill says republicans face two problems today: the elite’s continuing distrust of the electorate, and the electorate’s distrust of itself.
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... for the US Constitution or for civil liberties. They have no appreciation for the point made by Thomas Paine in his Dissertations on First Principles of Government (1790): “An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from...
•eat•read•play•• (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
" All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. " Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason. While listening to NPR I came upon a segment with Thomas Frank who has an article in Playboy (slightly unfortunate venue) about Glenn Beck....
PA Pundits (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Alexander’s Essay “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” –Thomas Paine We call the primary gathering place in our home “the warm room” [...]
lewrockwell.com (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... secession, and eschew any ideas of military resistance. That’s fine.But James Madison, John Adams, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson had a different perspective.The Framers knew that when tyranny advanced against any state, the state’s last option to resist that tyranny was to take up arms and fight. They had just proven its effectiveness by seceding from Great Britain through...
Appulo.us Newest Apps & Updates (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Glenn Beck's Common Sense by Glenn Beck with Joseph Kerry (1.03) Iceberg Reader Category: Books Price: $11.99 Cracker: Cre4tiVe Application Description: Glenn Beck's Common Sense Glenn Beck with Joseph Kerry Threshold Editions June 16, 2009 #1 New York Times bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck revisits Thomas Paine's Common Sense. About Iceberg The Iceberg...
Strange Bedfellows (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... spectrum. Ditto that of Glenn Beck, who appears to be quite a fan of that virulent revolutionary, Thomas Paine.#408192Posted by unregistered user at 11/22/09 4:59 p.m.I share the concern about increasingly erroneous language mechanics in newspapers and other publications. The eroding of standards for the English language by the press and other printed media is disgusting and will...
Good People Better Rise Up! (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... history because the system is not teaching it. The system is not doing the job. Beck considers Thomas Paine to be his personal hero. And yet more than any of the other Founding Fathers, Paine was a proto-socialist. You don't have to take my word for it. Just go read Paine's response to the founding father of conservatism, Edmund Burke, on the subject of the French Revolution...
