>>>I'll be re-reading Common Sense and The Rights Of Man.
>>>We could really use a Thomas Paine today.
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>>I agree with you.
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>>VERY early in Glenn Beck's career, I saw brief flashes that made me think we had a modern version of Paine. I had hope for him. Unfortunately, he turned out to be something very different and a major disappointment.
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>I know Glenn personally and have been in his home for dinner. He was really a great answer to Limbaugh, then something happened to him and he went off the deep end with his quasi paranoid rants.
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>Real shame...

Yup, it is a shame. I'll tell you what happened to him - money. He openly said that the money was all that matters, far more than the ideas.

Ideas matter.