Zombie Politics

I think Thomas Jefferson was most illuminating when he wrote... Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them...

Apparently so... Texas approves textbooks with Moses as Founding Father  It's always something with that wacky board of education in...

There have been some pretty strange assertions over the past couple of years about our founding fathers. Politifact has a piece up which co...

"Religion & Govt. will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together." ( James Madison , Letter to Edward L...

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law."  ( Thomas Jefferson , Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of ...

"I read my eyes out and can't read half enough. ... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read."  ( John Adams , L...

"Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country"   ( George Washington , letter to Benedict Arnold, 14 September 1...

Conservatives love to heap adulation on the founding fathers and bloviate about how they were all Christians founding a Christian nation...a...

The Right seems to take a great amount of glee by sarcastically pointing out that President Obama has the "most transparent administrat...

It's the holidays and that means it's time to give back to those less fortunate than ourselves. With this spirit in mind, I thought ...

“The legislature of the United States shall pass no law on the subject of religion.” ~ Charles Pinckney , Constitutional Convention, 1787

“The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given e...

“Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.” ~Roger Sherman, Congress, August 19, 1789

“God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are distinct in their nature, and ought never to be confounded together; one ...

“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. T...

“Some very worthy persons, who have not had great advantages for information, have objected against that clause in the constitution which pr...

“Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish on...

“No religious doctrine shall be established by law.” ~ Elbridge Gerry , Annals of Congress 1:729-731