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Comedian and political commentator Bill Maher is receiving backlash online for his take on historical slave-owners.

We are all heirs of the work Jefferson and our Founding Fathers did in the 18th century. But like any inheritance, it's easy to squander.

"You go to visit the legacy of Thomas Jefferson, and you learn about what a terrible person Thomas Jefferson was," Pete Hegseth said.

"There is no difference between this and the Taliban," the GOP congressman said, reacting to Boebert's remarks on the separation of church and state.

"I'm tired of this separation of church and state junk, that's not in the Constitution."

Thomas Jefferson Day 2022 celebrates the birthday of the third President of the United States, who is best known as the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.

The statue will be moved to the New York Historical Society's lobby for six months, then to the library reading room.

The former president criticized a decision in New York to remove a statue of the third president of the United States.

Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. He was in France while the U.S. Constitution was being written.

The statue of Thomas Jefferson has been in City Hall since 1834.

Three great American leaders of the past provide some insights about the founding of our nation.

If our ideals as a society live up to our better angels, then those ideals can be sacred because they lift up humanity. And we become enlightened.

What do Kobe Bryant, Bob Hope and Thomas Jefferson have in common? They are among the more than 200 names President Donald Trump has recommended to be honored in a yet-to-be created National Garden of American Heroes.

The future of the youth vote is more up for grabs than some now think.

We are all the intellectual inheritors of the Declaration of Independence.

The president is emerging as the defender of the American regime and way of life.

Ohio's Newton Falls declared itself a "Statuary Sanctuary City" in a written proclamation letter issued on Saturday.

We must fall in love with America all over again, and Independence Day is the best time to start.

Michele Cooley-Strickland, who can trace her lineage back to Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, said figures in U.S. history need to be evaluated on a sum total basis.

Nine generations separate me from my ancestors: Sally Hemings, a slave, and Thomas Jefferson, her owner. Plenty of time to process the fact men like him belong in museums, not on public squares.

America's founding fathers established the system that is now being railed against nationwide.

"Some things never change, dad!" Ivanka Trump tweeted regarding Jefferson's quote from a letter to his daughter, Martha.

Talk radio host Hugh Hewitt came under fire Wednesday after a tweet equating Trump's actions in Ukraine with a 1803 land deal between France and the United States.

Former President Thomas Jefferson's legacy as both the author of the Declaration of Independence and a slaveholder has called into question if and how he should be honored.

The Fourth of July is the most important political holiday in the world.

We are still having similar arguments in America today, but the remote power that conservatives and libertarians worry about is the size, scale and scope of our own federal government.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham takes aim at Mayor Pete Buttigieg after he ridiculed her on her own network's town hall Sunday night. 

In an article posted to the newspaper's website, the editor said he suspected it was the phrase "Indian Savages" that triggered the deletion.

Take out a copy of the Declaration of Independence and read it. And start telling stories about our country.

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