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Rick Santorum On Religious Freedom: What He Has Forgotten Since Law School

P. Scott Russell, AlterNet. February 23, 2012.

A law school peer of Santorum's offers a lesson on what the Constitution says about religious freedom for a wayward classmate and his followers.

11 Freedoms that Drunks, Slackers, Prostitutes and Pirates Pioneered and The Founding Fathers Opposed

Thaddeus Russell, Huffington Post and Free Press/Simon & Schuster. October 16, 2010.

What the Founding Fathers called corruption, depravity, venality and vice, many of us would call freedom.

Glenn Beck's Rampant Misuse of Founding Fathers Myths

Sally Kohn, Christian Science Monitor. October 13, 2010.

We can't let Glenn Beck and the Tea Party re-write American history to serve their agenda.

Now the Theocrats Want 'American Religious History Week'

Chris Hedges, The Nation. January 15, 2008.

With House Resolution 888, the religious right seeks to rewrite American history, turning the founding fathers into Christian fundamentalists.

Whatever Happened to 'We the People'?

Thom Hartmann, deleted. November 23, 2007.

Will our nation continue to stand for the values on which it was founded?

Stand Up for Liberty

Guest Blogger, July 4, 2007.

Christy Hardin Smith: We the people. Not the government on our behalf. Not some overarching authority who orders us about. But we, the people — that is where the power for change in this nation reside

Video: Gingrich Can\'t Face Young Girl Who Asks if She Should go to Jail for Drugs

Kristen Gwynne, December 31, 1969.

Why Debt Ceilings and Balanced-Budget Requirements Violate the Original Intent of the Constitution

William Hogeland, December 31, 1969.

Michele Bachmann Blames Her Republicanism on Gore Vidal, But Gets It All Wrong

Seneca Doane, December 31, 1969.