Thomas Paine

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• Today at TNR (December 1, 2009)

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  Karzais Fall: How Did a Man Once Hailed as the Savior of Afghanistan Become Its Scourge? by Jean MacKenzie From Thomas Paine to Glenn Beck: The Perversion of Common Sense in American Politics by Damon Linker Palinology 101? Meet the Professor Who Is Riding the Wasilla Gravy Train. by Amanda Silverman What ...
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• Against Common Sense

  
  The New Republic - damon linker Feed — Authority: 100
  Conservatives would have us believe that they hold a monopoly on common sense. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and many other right-wing rabble-rousers regularly portray themselves as defenders of the good, old-fashioned common sense of average Americans against an out-of-touch liberal elite. A growing ...
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• >>The Unconstitutionality of the Health Care Reform Bills and more

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 142
  Judge Napolitano reports on Rep James Clyburn telling him basically that the Congress  simply ignores the Constitution Added to Quicklist 2:42 Added to Quicklist 3:04 Video link: cAdded to Quicklist Judge Napolitano Rep James Clyburn Congress Constitution Posted in Bob Basso as Thomas Paine, ...
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• >>China may well be our Savior from Obamanation

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 142
  It is ironic that We the People   may have a communist dictatorship to thank for saving us from our own President and Congress. Our President, Barack Obama went hat in hand and on bended knee to our nation’s banker this past week to beg that our mortgage be extended and even that we be allowed to take out an ...
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• Thomas Paine and Paper Money

  
  Believe All Things — Authority: 115
  Thomas Paine is well known as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States as well as an author and pamphleteer. In January 1776 Mr. Paine published Common Sense , the pro-independence monograph he anonymously published shortly after his immigration to America in 1774. In 1786 Thomas Paine wrote about the ...
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• Beck and Paine

  
  Heretical Ideas Blog — Authority: 139
  Julian Sanchez notes that Glenn Beck has taken a liking to Thomas Paine and comments: “I recommend a dramatic reading from The Age of Reason . Or would inducing that level of cognitive dissonance be cruel?” I say that if Julian really wants to see Glenn Beck enter into a world of cognitive dissonance, then ...
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• General Washington Loses Fort Washington

  
  Today's History Lesson — Authority: 124
  By mid-November of 1776, the reality of their rebellion against the King George III was beginning to slap the Colonists in the face…hard.  The excitement of July 2nd’s Declaration of Independence had, in the ensuing months, been replaced a new truth.  A sobering, more immediate truth, stronger than the flush ...
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• "Thomas Paine" calls on Americans to stand up and fight for their country!

  
  Coralville Courier — Authority: 512
  Were tired of being lied to, were tired of being mislead, unjustly labeled and manipulated.
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• ACORN: Can’t Steal Directly – Can Sue America

  
  The Bull Speaks! — Authority: 123
  Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
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• Traitors Of Freedom Among You

  
  The Maritime Sentry — Authority: 133
  I could not say it better: "It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. The far and the near, the home counties and the back, the rich and the poor, will suffer or rejoice alike. The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his children will curse ...
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• >>10,000+ Tea partiers descend on Capitol Hill Novemeber 5, 2009

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 142
  Tea partiers descend on Capitol Hill – Jonathan Allen and Meredith Shiner – POLITICO.com The Tea Party holds no seat in Congress, but at least 10,000 of the party’s members descended on Capitol Hill Thursday to rally against a Democratic-written health care overhaul.   A plan first hatched and heralded ...
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• The squatters who lived in “Hardlucksville”

  
  Ephemeral New York — Authority: 557
  The 1930s were a pretty rough time. Unemployment hovered around 20 percent nationally, while the city’s poorest neighborhoods, like Harlem, had a 50 percent out-of-work rate. Where did Depression-era New Yorkers go when they had no money to pay rent? Some moved into the city’s many squatter camps. These ...
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• Let’s Just Hate All the Real Republicans (Who Dare Disagree)

  
  The Pink Flamingo — Authority: 482
  Guess what?Newt is looking extremely presidential! (Thats my mother talking. Of course it could be the Vicodin and a few other pain killers. She fell and broke her left elbow this morning). Of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• QOTD:National Character

  
  In God We Trust Blog — Authority: 131
  “Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS…” — Thomas Paine   Mail this post Technorati Tags: patriotism , Thomas ...
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• Questions + Answers from the Hero Dossier at Fresh Media – Feasthouse Podcast

  
  Ephemeral Feasthouse — Authority: 92
  At Fresh Media conference at W2 Arts + Media Centre, participants riff a spontaneous blurb about a hero from a Dossier of Importantancy in a workshop about storytelling + podcasting by Dave Olson (AKA Uncle Weed). Features Samuel Pepys , RMS Carpathia , Amber Case , Thomas Paine, J. Garcia, Mudhoney, JJ Rousseau, ...
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• QOTD:Patriots

  
  In God We Trust Blog — Authority: 131
  “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 their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” — Thomas Paine   Mail this post Technorati Tags: patriotism , Thomas Paine
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• Perspicacity for the Day: Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

  
  Perpetual Timothy — Authority: 119
  - Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. - When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. - A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men. - These are the times ...
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