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War for Independence was ‘the people’s war’
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By FREDERIC J. FRANSEN Tribune News Service 
February 10, 2026
Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to favor independence and qu...
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America’s ‘Common Sense’ revolution
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By FREDERIC J. FRANSEN Tribune News Service 
January 12, 2026
While Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence turned the smoldering embers of rebellion into the glorious fireworks of independence and revolut...
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