About a week ago I published a post at Big Journalism outlining fourteen clear factual errors in Richard Stengel’s essay on the Constitution. I said at the time that I considered it a journalistic scandal that such an error-ridden piece
About a week ago I published a post at Big Journalism outlining fourteen clear factual errors in Richard Stengel’s essay on the Constitution. I said at the time that I considered it a journalistic scandal that such an error-ridden piece
While most Americans spent their Independence Day barbecuing, enjoying family time, letting off fireworks, apparent Fox News haters hacked into the network’s Twitter account to post this: The Guardian: Whatever the hoaxer’s identity, they do not appear to have been
Yesterday, I had the honor of attending the Religious Freedom Rally at the Houston National Cemetery with my husband Steve. At this event, a coalition of Houston area pastors, representing a variety of ethnic and religious denominations, stood alongside several
On July 4, 1826, two of the great founders of American democracy breathed their last. John Adams, ensconced at Peacefield in Quincy, Massachusetts was comforted in his last moments in the belief that Jefferson still lived. Such were Adams’ last
“War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling that thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he will
Pete Schweizer has asked me, for Independence Day, to write something upbeat and optimistic. This is not an easy task for me, given that I’m the gloomiest person in the world. The Future But in fact, I AM upbeat and
While contemplating the momentous event in human history that was the American colonies’ break from Great Britain, John Adams wrote his wife, Abigail, on July 3, 1776 saying that: “the day will be the most memorable in the history of
It’s “pursuit of happiness”- not “right of happiness” – in the famous Declaration of Independence quote. That’s why to me today’s July 4th celebration takes on significance beyond the obvious. A growing number of Americans now think happiness – or
A recent paper, published by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, claims that “exposure to Fourth of July at an early age” makes young people more likely to later vote Republican. So before venturing out to the local Independence Day parade
If we wish to be free–if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending–if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and
Will the Fourth of July become a vanishing holiday? That thought came to mind when I read of a May 2011 study by Harvard academics titled “Shaping the Nation: Estimating the Impact of Fourth of July Using a Natural Experiment.”
From Ronald Reagan, July 1, 1981: For one who was born and grew up in the small towns of the Midwest, there is a special kind of nostalgia about the Fourth of July. I remember it as a day almost
The 4th is a celebration of patriotism and patriotism is defined as love of country. Why do we love, those of us who do, the United States of America? Is it freedom, liberties beyond anything this globe has ever known,
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and
It’s hard to come out of Lt. Dan Band: For the Common Good without a healthy feeling of irony. You’ve just witnessed a prime example of man’s inhumanity and cruelty inspiring a display of man’s greatest virtues–honor, sacrifice, compassion, and
Today, in 1776, the Continental Congress ratified the Declaration of Independence. Of course, actually achieving independence would take years of struggle. Also today, in 1826, on the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died.
Today, more than ever before, the freedoms celebrated by Americans on Independence Day appear to be at risk. Among the most important are some freedoms I remember growing up with in Enid, Okla., during the ’60s and ’70s. The people
Apparently, when no one was looking, the Jaycees became a pro-Infanticide group. I wonder about this because the United States Junior Chamber Jaycees has thrown the Palatine Area Catholics Respect Life Group out of the Palatine, Illinois July Fourth parade,
Glenn Reynolds in today’s Washington Examiner: While Independence Day is about independence from Great Britain, today it’s also associated with more general notions of freedom — individual independence, not just political independence. Unfortunately, America’s political class doesn’t want you independent.
On September 11, 2001, 2,977 people were killed by terrorists. The terrorists were indiscriminate in their slaughter of lives–while the attacks were an attack on America, the terrorists did not care whether those they killed were exclusively American or not,
From the UK’s Daily Mail: Die-hard Democrats may want to keep their children well away from July 4th parades, according to a new Harvard study. Researchers at the university claim youngsters who attend the patriotic events are much more likely
