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battle over freedom of religion and freedom from religion -- whether it's Roger Williams fighting Puritan intolerance in New England, the deism of Jefferson and Thomas Paine in the early days of independence, or a man you may never have heard of — an orator so famous in the 19th century that standing-roo

ke this moronic Texas school board, which in its list of thinkers who influenced the revolution two years ago. And it's now, two years ago replaced Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence with Thomas Aquinas. Anybody at a good religious college would know that wasn't true. BILL MOYERS: H

r of water" -- bladder meaning a sack to carry in, not bladder the organ in the body — "as something to throw on all religion." So Ingersoll revived Paine's reputation. You can say that because we're not a nation in which the majority of people are freethinkers, although secular America is growing we

e he didn't believe in capital punishment as no free thinkers ever have. Teddy Roosevelt, the future president, wrote a biography in which he called Paine "a filthy little atheist, which esteems a dirty bladder of water" -- bladder meaning a sack to carry in, not bladder the organ in the body — "as so

In 1791, Alexander Hamilton argued that the nation should provide incentives a=d assistance to manufacturers to compete in the world economy. Even Thomas Jefferson came around to the view that government has a stake in building domestic manufacturing. These principles influenced Herbert Hoover, who before he wa

ers to compete in the world economy. Even Thomas Jefferson came around to the view that government has a sta

for a job for more than 27 weeks, fell by 258,000. =b> Good news I say.... THIS WEEK =;s READINGS This week in The Washington Post, filmmaker Ch=is Paine wrote — Five myths about electri= cars — based on his documentaries= "Who Killed the Electric Car?" ,"Charge" and "Rev=nge of the Electric Car." He

battle over freedom of religion and freedom from religion -- whether it's Roger Williams fighting Puritan intolerance in New England, the deism of Jefferson and Thomas Paine in the early days of independence, or a man you may never have heard of — an orator so famous in the 19th century that standing-roo

ical reputation of Thomas Paine so famous, say, by 1800 because of the role he played in the revolution. "These are the times that try men's souls." Paine was driven out of England, charged with treason, for writing The Rights ofMan. His book The Age of Reason, which was published in 1793, the first p