The Daily Thomas PaineThomas Paine was the spark that ignited the American Revolution. More than just a founding father, he was a verbal bomb thrower, a rationalist, and a rebel. In his influential pamphlets Common Sense and The American Crisis, Paine codified both colonial outrage and the intellectual justification for independence, arguing consistently and convincingly for Enlightenment values and the power of the people. Today, we are living in times that, as Paine