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reforms, reforming virginia, breaking away from england, creating an america that would offer a thomas paine's term in common sense the birthday of a new world, that was what jefferson was after, i think. during the american revolution, the two played very different roles. hamilton was a soldier. he went into the militia on the eve of the outbreak of the war into the continental army, and for the first year of fighting he is an officer in an artillery company. an observer at the time saw hamilton during washington's retreat across new jersey in the fall of 1776 and instead of hamilton he is a mere stripling, small, slender column almost delicate in frame, marching with a cocked head pulled over his eyes. apparently lost in thought with his hand resting on a can. every now and then patting it as if it were a favorite horse or hat place thing. hamilton, a year into his service in the continental army, was offered a position as an aid decamped to washington. he didn't want the position. he had been offered as a position as an aide to board sterling and turned that down. he wanted a field command.

thomas pain -- thomas paine with the idea of god chooses an answer to catering to go against god. what we do have dictatorships come in many dictatorships try to create the illusion or democratic, even when they're not. it shows you how popular democracy is that dictatorships are democratic. pretty radical viewpoints have changed our way of thinking. there's two possibilities we can consider. the first is we are right about every single issue, which is never have been. there are some issues that we are really brought about, were 200 years and now people look at a site or pain. 50 years now, people look back upon us like we were insane. so it seems like the more likely scenario? when you write about every or issues we are really wrong about. what seems more likely? the first one, right? what are some of the issues and i'd be really about? what comes to mind? keep in mind the issues we are really wrong about current issues you. if you look at women's right to vote, that is in issue in the 1700s or 1600s. it's not even debated that match if you go back a century prior. if you look at

our lifetime he said that in seventeen ninety five thomas paine. to understand what the state of society ought to be it is necessary to have some idea of what the natural state of man is such as it is such as it is at this day among the indians of north america there is not in that state among the indians any of those spectacles of human misery which poverty and want to present to our eyes and all the towns and streets in europe poverty therefore is a thing created by that which is called civilized life it exists not in the natural state. where you and i were talking a couple days ago and you made an observation about we've been asking the wrong question when we start when we talk about poverty what's the wrong question what's the right question where are we closer and what are your thoughts on these quotes certainly the wrong question is to think about this is charity it absolutely is an issue of economic justice and it is something that we have created the injustice is what we have created and you know if we can kind of throw off the mantle of po

actions of human beings and that was in our lifetime he said that in seventy nine hundred five thomas paine said to understand what the state of society ought to be it is necessary to have some idea of what the natural state of man is such as it is such as it is at this day among the indians of north america there is not in that state among the indians any of those spectacles of human misery which poverty and want to present to our eyes of all the towns and streets in europe poverty therefore is a thing created by that which is called civilized life it exists not in the natural state. when you and i were talking a couple days ago and and you made an observation about we've been asking the wrong question when we start when we talk about poverty what's sort of wrong question what's the right question where are we closer and what are your thoughts on these quote certainly the wrong question is to think about this is charity it absolutely is an issue of economic justice and it is something that we have created the injustice is what we have created and you know if we can kind of throw off the ma

actions of human beings and that was in our lifetime he said that in seventy nine hundred five thomas paine. to understand what the state a society ought to be it is necessary to have some idea of what the natural state of man is such as it is such as it is at this day among the indians of north america there is not in that state among the indians any of those.

actions of human beings and that was in our lifetime he said that in seventy nine hundred five thomas paine. to understand what the state of society ought to be it is necessary to have some idea of what the natural state of man is such as it is such as it is at this day among the indians of north america there is not in that state among the indians any of those spectacles of human misery which poverty and want to present to our eyes in all the towns and streets in europe poverty therefore is a thing created by that which is called civilized life it exists not in the natural state. when you and i were talking a couple days ago and you made an observation about we've been asking the wrong question when we start we talk about poverty what's the wrong question what's the right question where are we closer and what are your thoughts on these quotes certainly the wrong question is to think about this is charity it absolutely is an issue of economic justice and it is something that we have created the injustice is what we have created and you know if we can kind of throw off the mantle of poverty

the actions of human beings and that was in our lifetime he said that in seventeen ninety five thomas paine said to understand what the state of society ought to be it is necessary to have some idea of what the natural state of man is such as it is such as it is at this day among the indians of north america there is not in that state among the indians any of those spectacles of human misery which poverty and want to present to our eyes of all the towns and streets in europe poverty therefore is a thing created by that which is called civilized life it exists not in the natural state. when you and i were talking a couple days ago and you made an observation about we've been asking the wrong question when we start when we talk about poverty what's the wrong question what's the right question where are we closer and what are your thoughts on these quotes certainly the wrong question is to think about the.

true so so you had the liberals who were seeing all this change in the kind of thomas jefferson thomas paine fashion and saw thought as a wonderful thing and conservatives who were saying wait a minute if the middle class is too big this could be dangerous this is in the fifty's fifty one fifty two russell kirk wrote a book called the conservative mind that lays this all out predicts this fast forward to the seventy's and now it's actually happening women are demanding rights in the workplace you know the whole bra burning movement ms magazine was published in seventy one african-americans are saying hey what about us you know and they've they've finally gotten civil rights legislation martin luther king has just been assassinated gay people were. commonality stonewalls nine hundred sixty nine young people are saying hell no i won't go to vietnam i mean literally every facet of society except for old rich white guys were in the open rebellion and on the social side so it seems that all those one nine hundred fifty s. predictions about you know if that middle class gets too big this is this r

true so so you had the liberals who were seeing all this change in the kind of thomas jefferson thomas paine fashion and saw thought as wonderful thing and conservatives who are saying wait a minute if the middle class is too big this could be dangerous this is in the fifty's one hundred fifty one fifty two russell kirk wrote a book called the conservative mind that lays this all out predicts this fast forward to the seventy's and now it's actually happening women are demanding rights in the workplace you know the whole bra burning movement ms magazine was published in seventy one african-americans are saying hey what about us you know and they think they've finally gotten civil rights legislation martin luther king had just been assassinated gay people were commonalities stonewalls nine hundred sixty nine young people were saying hell no i won't go to vietnam i mean literally every facet of society except for old rich white guys were in the open rebellion and on the social side so it seems that all those one nine hundred fifty s. predictions about you know if that middle class gets too big

you always have a new book out where left and right came from, thomas paine versus edwin burke. to reading this tomorrow. president obama is a genuine man on the left. bill clinton, michael dukakis, he's not jimmy carter. he's a man on the left. a law professor. i live with law professors. we get the debates, we go out a h academics, no it with great deal of world experience. property d use with prospectors, they don't have an idea of what they're talking about. the planning of parks and streets. obama is esident really professor obama. and as a result politics has polarized, not as bad as it's opinion in the 20s were fore, the terrible. civil wars, the federalist papers. throwing, name calling, terrible times. the segregation years, the effort.gation the country has gone through worse than this. this is as vigorous as it's ever been. much. cared so >> the question isn't what your opinion is of the president. but why is it that these talk hosts and maybe you're one of them. although i listen to you. doing this mber you exactly this way. burr they start at the beginning hours. go

when you think about documents such as thomas paine's common sense or declaration of independence, asuch as anything these were propaganda used against the british and they had their impact over several long years of war. they were down the fight that resulted in the vote to discontinue the war in america. that is some new and warfare. that's something that was completely different. that was some bring that the haunts and the romans did not have to worry about. but the rise of democracy or the spread of media that becomes a major force and in fact many others in the future would seek to emulate what the american rebels did including some such as the viet cong or the iraqi or afghan insurgents who have tried to use the power propaganda and public opinion against us. all these factors are especially important if in the theories of mao tse-tung who was one of the great of course and most influential theorists of guerrilla warfare that ever was. he had a very different deal of guerrilla warfare than that practiced by the nomadic warriors. he wrote an incredibly influential look in 1938 ca

deal with the changes that are taking place in the media environment today. >> host: how did can thomas paine contribute via social media to the american revolution? >> guest: well, tom paine took advantage of a social media environment that had mostly been constructed by ben franklin. he was sort of the mark zuckerberg of the 18th century because he constructed a platform for social discourse. he was a newspaper publisher among many other things, of course, and he was also one of his many jobs was to be deputy postmaster general for the american colonies. so he greatly improved the frequency and efficiently of the postal service. that was the first thing. and the second thing he did was institute a rule that newspaper publishers, such as himself, could use the postal service for free to deliver to their customers and exchange newspapers weed to haves in other -- weed to haves in other -- with editors in other towns. they typically had a small scale, 500-1,000 copies at most. it's mostly letters from subscribers or speeches or reports of, you know, funny happenings or stuff copied out of othe

when you think about documents such as thomas paine's common sense or declaration of independence, asch as anything these were propaganda used against the british and they had their impact over several long years of war. they were down the fight that resulted in the vote to discontinue the war in america. that is some new and warfare. that's something that was completely different. that was some bring that the haunts and the romans did not have to worry about. but the rise of democracy or the spread of media that becomes a major force and in fact many others in the future would seek to emulate what the american rebels did including some such as the viet cong or the iraqi or afghan insurgents who have tried to use the power propaganda and public opinion against us. all these factors are especially important if in the theories of mao tse-tung who was one of the great of course and most influential theorists of guerrilla warfare that ever was. he had a very different deal of guerrilla warfare than that practiced by the nomadic warriors. he wrote an incredibly influential look in 1938 cal

thomas paine said the government is a necessary evil. he was right. that sounds kind of harsh but the thing is we need to have government. but because government is inefficient, we should keep what government does to a minimum. there's certain things we probably can't have private industry do. a national defense, an army, a navy, an air force. government needs to be in place for that. we've decided with most of our infrastructure to have government involved. we have some private entities involved as well. but do we really want government involved in every one of our affairs? do we really think government is going to be distributing goods very well? think of it this way. think of it tomorrow we nationalize grocery shopping. we nationalize and you all get insurance and it's going to be subsidized. when you go to wal-mart you'll pay a $20 co-pay. do you think you'll buy less or more there? you'll empty the shelves. the other day you may have heard the food stamp cards quit working and they didn't have any limits. people just loaded up thousands and thous

martin luther and his use of poetry and thomas paine and the common sense and the way that they would use more broadly the run-up to the american and french revolution. .. >> host: how do you define feminism? >> guest: in the best sense feminism is a philosophy that says that men and women are equal before long, deserve the same rights, the same liberties, the equal dignity, and basically a philosophy of basic fairness. >> host: in your book, who stole feminism how women have betrayed women, you talk about the new feminism. what is the new feminism? >> guest: yes, well, the new feminism emerged especially in the 80's and 90's and is a rather hard-line version. i became a feminist in the >> i believed in equality of opportunity however in the '80s and '90s as ani philosophy professor readingere feminist theories and there were some theories that or soly aggressive with rather harshly anti-mail there were following the of mono with men are from venus and men are from the hell. i did not need to denigrate the bet it was a reversed seven this so i took exception to that and in e found tha

great falls thomas parent is going to get decent pain by his former times. but he said it had taken six weeks for them to be vindicated. he did this to bear and accepted the jury's very fixed and admitted his client as intending to choose among them were deer integrated into assisted in torrents. he stood very same care as to the mother signed over the family home with bunting notable can stand to him a month before she died the seventy years eve with the geek in essence or scissors. we got to love someone you know where the transaction. i'm fortunately at the moment it does seem like the proposed gets any compensation. but however. we just have to wait to see. terry comments to the last few years of being stressed out from us again to match the damaging these different signed over five properties bought by mr collis and his brother to himself but he said he hadn't come to court if that was in eighteen eighty seven eight years. the woman is sixteen years before suspended. we thought he was going to no money comes of it i feel so sorry become the adult the na

bishop thomas, one of the church's senior clerics, says whatever pain copts are suffering, they must other cheek, at least for now. >> bishop thomas: forgiveness is a very important principle in the christian life. when you are able to present forgiveness and love, you are able as well to ask for justice. one day in this life, justice has to be fulfilled. >> simon: one day, perhaps. but it's not happening now. four copts, including two children, were killed recently when masked gunmen shot them as they arrived for a wedding. thousands attended the funeral for the church's latest martyrs. >> pope tawadros ii: in every period, we must present some martyrs. >> simon: so you think that christianity in egypt requires martyrs today as it has in the past? >> pope tawadros ii: yeah, every day. every day. >> simon: febe armanios believes the violence is one reason people are flocking to charismatic coptic services. she took us to one at st. simon in muquattam in cairo, one of the largest churches in the middle east. 2,000 people attended the night we went, and the service was broadcast all ove

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thomas drayton. good to have you with us. painful memories.are approaching the one year anniversary of the shooting at sandy hook elementary school, in newtown. in which 26 children and six adults from killed when adam lanza opened fire. recordings of the calls, the 911, will be released. after a legal battle and debate over whether to keep them private, there were concerns that the release will bring back the horror and pain of that awful day. coming up in a few moments we'll talk to a newtown resident to get a take on the communities stance on this. >>> figures from the federal government shows homelessness across the country has gone down. it's not the case in some major cities, including los angeles, which saw a double-digit increase. we'll find out what is fuelling the rise. first, the recordings of calls made to 911 during the sandy hook mass anger will be released to the media this afternoon. a connecticut judge ruled that they should be released so the public can see what the police response was. >> joining us now to discuss the releas

daily, xeljanz can reduce the joint pain and swelling of moderate to severe ra, even without methotrexate. ask if xeljanz is right for you. >>> on this day in 1879, thomasandescent light bulb to the public. another man actually invented it 40 years earlier but edison was the first person to develop a design. it would spark a revolution in lighting systems. the earliest versions of the new years ball in times square featured dozens of incandescent light bulb. edison shed light 134 years ago today. >> let's put a spotlight on the dow. as it closes above 16,513 or higher, and it will have its biggest annual percentage gain since 1995. this is the dow's fifth straight annual gain this year. the longest winning streak since 1999. charles will have more on that just ahead. >> the party just about to go down in times square. and stocks keep going up. wall street closes out a huge year with yet another record. will the party continue in 2014? we're all over it. >> welcome everyone. i'm chase payne in for neil cavuto and this is "your world." break out the champagne. wall street has plenty to cheer about. the dow scourging 26% this year, and 52 record closes in