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Opinion: How Republicans Distort Founders’ Meaning, Mission of Freedom
The founders conceptualized freedom as a social mission, a social obligation, the chief goal of which was to serve the public good, not one’s narrow private interests.
Tagged Thomas Paine
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Opinion: Why The Founders Could Not Have Devised A Trump-Proof Democracy
Writing in 1782, in the aftermath of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine exclaimed, “We are now really another people.” What Paine meant, in part, was that the new republican form of government required a new and different kind of person, a new kind of citizen. People were used to being subjects of the Crown, ruled…
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This is How Big a Deal it is that Pope Francis Says Evolution and the Big Bang are Real
Pope Francis has declared that evolution and the Big Bang are facts, no longer to be debated, saying of evolution: When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. He created human beings and…
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America, Our Children Are Being Punished for Excluding God from Pledge of Allegiance
One student was told that failing to stand is disrespectful to members of the U.S. military; another was told the law required him to stand
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This Fourth of July America, Our Liberty is Under Siege From Within
We are under siege this July Fourth. We can only resist with our love of liberty, for it is liberty that is the beating heart of liberalism
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Ralph Nader Attacks the Imperial Presidency but Ignores the Do-Nothing Congress
Ralph Nader is railing against the “imperial presidency” but has nothing to say about our runaway, do-nothing Congress. It makes no sense to rail against the one while ignoring the other.
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The Republican Party and the un-Founding of America
Republicans claim to be the defenders of the Constitution; this while wishing to do away with every amendment save the Second and the Tenth- narrowing Republican goals to guns and secession.
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Misremembering is the Conservative Way of Treating Martin Luther King
As our nation celebrates Martin Luther King Jr, conservatives choose NOT to remember him, but to misremember him as a conservative
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The Tea Party’s Intolerable Acts Are a Parting Shot from George III
The Tea Party’s actions in Wisconsin and Michigan show them to owe their inspiration not to the Patriots of 1776 but to King George III
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Why America Needs a Left
In Why America Needs a Left, Eli Zaretsky makes a case for a ‘hard’ left, something beyond either progressivism or liberalism
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Let’s Not Give Right Wing Religious Idiots and Hypocrites the Last Laugh
The Religious Right says some laughable things, but there is nothing laughable about their money, power – or influence on American politics
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Republicans Declare Defeat and Claim They Have Lost the Culture War
Longtime foe of multiculturalism, William J. Bennett, says Republicans lost culture war and accuses Democrats of playing identity politics
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Glenn Beck May Give Barton’s Book of Lies a New Lease on Life
David Barton’s Christian publisher may have dropped his book of lies and who better to save lies about a Founding Father than Glenn Beck?
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Obama’s Constitution-friendly Religion
Jeffrey T. Kuhner of the Edmund Burke Institute, who last year accused President Obama of having “black nationalist sympathies” (whatever those are) wrote a column for the Washington Times on February 23, which he entitled Obama’s pseudo-religion, arguing that the “President’s secular moves” are “out of step with Judeo-Christian culture.” His claim is that “Mr. Obama is…
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Our Founding Fathers Were Liberal, NOT Conservative
A lot has been said about our founding fathers in recent years. The tea party has all of a sudden become historical scholars. They have become the defenders of our Country and our Constitution. Glenn Beck is their proverbial historical professor. Unfortunately their knowledge is fairly limited to specifically what their Fox News comrade regurgitates, which inaccurately represents the true views of the Founding Fathers.
How Glenn Beck Warped Extreme Liberal Thomas Paine into a Teabagger
Glenn Beck dislikes government. He also dislikes social programs – such as Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. Those who advocate such programs are, for Beck, “cockroaches.” Beck, a radical conservative, thinks he channels Paine, an interesting feat considering Paine was a radical liberal, who is considered the real father of Social Security.