So come raise a glass to both Toms at the annual Florida Veterans for Common Sense “Thomas Paine Birthday Party" on Monday, Feb. 24, 5:30 p.m. at the Fogartyville Community Media and Arts ...

The video discusses the emergence of an American identity through literature during the 18th-century Revolutionary period. It ...

Our continued reliance on dirty fossil fuels is a tradition that we should challenge,” writes Tom Elder, a volunteer with the ...

If common sense is background music for American politics, Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet provides the title track. Paine said he would rely on “nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments ...

The term “common sense” is often evoked by President Trump, though his “common” sense can seem grotesquely solitary and unique, as for example when he ...

Trump is not the first important American to employ the tactic of incendiary common sense; that honor would go to Thomas Paine, whose pamphlet titled with those two words helped set the flame of ...

Thomas Paine, The Father of the American Revolution ... Americans are in desperate need of a refreshed pass on Paine’s Common Sense pamphlets. Common Sense: Addressed to inhabitants of America ...

By allowing a budget that slashes government spending to Americans who desperately need government assistance while cutting ...