Thomas Paine, Ronald Reagan, and Harvey J. Kaye on Thom Hartmann

 Harvey J. Kaye comments on the effort of the Right to own Thomas Paine and American revolutionary history ... and how Progressives can reclaim them both (Kaye begins at 9:00 minutes into the show ... you can skip to it):

http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/full-show-122710-media-love-affair-gop-financial-reform-block-top-5-political-idiots

Ron Paul gets it wrong

Ron Paul gets it wrong: gold and silver currency is a chimera -- the wet dream of gold-bugs and crackpots. Public banking/Greenbackism is the solution to the present crisis. The question is who creates money and to whom does the interest return?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/ron-paul-calls-fed-monopoly-seeks-competitor-dollar-standard/

Dime-store novelist Ayn Rand's sorry sycophants croak her weary refrain:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/facebook-founders-philanthropy-pledge-angers-ayn-rand-center/

Sarah Palin, Thomas Paine and the founders.

Palin's new book the usual a-historical nonsense:

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/20101205_Sarah_Palin_reveals_herself.html?viewAll=y

Thomas Paine -- "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be."

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation
in principle is always a vice." Thomas Paine, RIGHTS OF MAN II, 1792.

Harvey J. Kaye and Martha Stewart -- LISTEN UP, PRES. OBAMA !!

http://www.newdeal20.org/2010/12/07/listen-up-president-obama-martha-stewart-has-good-advice-for-you-29031/