Many of the nation’s liberal editorial writers seem to have decided in 2022 that the Fourth of July is not worth celebrating — or is best observed by turning America’s independence into an occasional to advance radical left-wing causes.
Two police officers were shot and hospitalised on Monday evening during a Fourth of July fireworks show in Philadelphia, sparking a stampede.
Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton (D) called for stricter gun control laws and said, “there are too many guns on our streets,” in a statement after a gunman murdered at least six and injured 24 more at a July 4 parade in Chicago’s Highland Park neighborhood.
Hollywood celebrities rejected any sense of patriotism this July 4 and used the Independence Day holiday weekend to trash the United States as an oppressive country where women can’t get abortions, racism is rampant, and former President Donald Trump is still a free man and on the loose.
The City of Orlando, Florida, issued an apology over the weekend for posting a negative Fourth of July message, in which it said it “can’t blame” people for not wanting to celebrate America when there is “so much division, hate and unrest.”
National Public Radio (NPR) abandoned its traditional reading of the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July in favor of a discussion of what equality means in today’s United States.
Far-left voices are offering less than celebratory Independence Day messages — from warning of “extremist voices” to urging Americans to sponsor Ukrainian refugees.
Multiple people were injured after shots were fired along the Fourth of July parade route in Chicago’s Highland Park neighborhood.
Actress Jessica Chastain took to social media on the Fourth of July to proclaim, “Happy ‘Independence’ Day from me and my reproductive rights,” and shared a photo of herself holding up two middle fingers.
Rev. Franklin Graham celebrated Independence Day on Monday, urging fellow Americans to stop and “thank God for His hand of blessing” on the country and to “stand firmly on His Word.”
Figures across the country celebrated the Fourth of July on its 246th Independence Day, reminding fellow Americans that “we live in the greatest nation in the world.”
People traveling for July 4 have reportedly experienced thousands of delayed and cancelled flights, even after hundreds were cancelled last weekend.
Young Americans who said they enjoy cookouts and watching fireworks with friends and family on the Fourth of July nevertheless pledged not to celebrate Independence Day “out of respect to indigenous people groups,” in a video released by Campus Reform.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos turned on President Joe Biden for ordering gas stations to lower their prices at a time of “war and global peril.”
Democrats in Pima County, Arizona, scrubbed a social media post advertising an event called “Fuck the Fourth” after taking heat for the move.
One-third of Americans have changed their Fourth of July plans due to high gas prices, an Emerson College Poll released Friday found.
As passengers are experiencing delays and canceled flights more than usual over the Fourth of July, an Axios report revealed that airlines knew ahead of time there would be problems.
The price of fireworks has exploded across the country under President Joe Biden, meaning party-goers will be getting less of a show unless they pay a lot more this Fourth of July weekend.
Less than half of Americans consider themselves to be “very” patriotic, a YouGov/The Economist survey released this week found.
Environmental regulations have forced the town of Hingham, Massachusetts, to delay its Fourth of July fireworks display for months.
These are the times that try men’s souls—and budgets. This year’s Fourth of July celebrations will be hit hard by inflation.
Hundreds of U.S. flights were cancelled over the weekend and on Monday, causing some alarm ahead of the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel hammered the Biden administration for its reckless spending and anti-U.S. energy agenda which force Americans to pay more for groceries, gas, and holiday travel plans.
In Oakland, California, in 2021, criminals marked Independence Day by threatening citizens with deadly violence.
Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) resumed her July 4 bashing Monday, proclaiming that the same people who believe black people have “full freedom” in the United States are “the same ones trying to prevent teaching the truth about white supremacy in our classrooms” — a likely reference to the widespread rejection of Critical Race Theory (CRT).
Left-wing actress Rosanna Arquette pushed an environmental alarmism message on Independence Day, suggesting people give up fireworks “for the wellbeing of mother earth and humans to survive.”
China’s government-run Global Times newspaper observed American Independence Day on Sunday by claiming Americans have nothing to celebrate, as their country has become “selfish,” failed on “the race issue,” and is currently “in its least confident stage.”
House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) criticized the Declaration of Independence in a tweet on July 4th.
Independence Day is about freedom for whites, while blacks “still aren’t free,” wrote Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) on Sunday, July 4.
An essay published in the Nation on Friday accuses Americans celebrating independence of failing to “reckon with the fact that the founders of our nation were colonizers,” with American “exceptionalism” and foreign policy being “grounded in racism,” adding that issues such as climate change and “racist policing” are the “greatest existential threats” while global terrorism and threats from China, Russia, and Iran, are merely “imagined threats.”
Fireworks went off Sunday at Maryland’s Ocean City Beach, injuring a worker who was setting up for a July 4 celebration.
Fireworks, fireworks, and yet more fireworks. Americans are expected to honor the nation’s 245th birthday Sunday with pyrotechnic displays lighting up a land celebrating both patriotism and freedom from (most) coronavirus restrictions.
Ahead of July 4, Democrats and leftists “are trying to make us hate our history,” J.D. Vance, author of Hillbillly Elegy, told Breitbart News.
Students at Georgetown University said they are not proud to be an American when interviewed shortly before the Fourth of July holiday, adding that they would give up their American citizenship. The students, however, were unable to name better country than the United States.
Country rock star Aaron Lewis’s patriotic anthem “Am I the Only One” soared up the iTunes charts, passing Big Red Machine’s “Renegade” featuring Taylor Swift, over the July 4th weekend.
CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen is recommending unvaccinated Americans only congregate with other unvaccinated people in outdoor settings during the Fourth of July weekend.
The White House is inviting representatives of illegal migrants to the Independence Day celebration at the White House, marking another effort to blur critical distinctions between Americans and foreigners.
MSNBC contributor and former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that she is starting a “new family tradition” of watching videos of the January 6 Capitol Hill riot on the Fourth of July.
Country music star Toby Keith’s new song, “Happy Birthday America” wonders if the nation’s best days are behind it. The Grammy-nominated crooner laments voting for “the lesser of two evils,” he calls out protesters burning the U.S. “flag in their city streets,” and he rebukes “all the broken-down cities,” destroyed “by the left’s design.”
Chinese state media on Friday said Americans might see fewer fireworks on the Fourth of July because Chinese-made fireworks are “caught up in the global supply chain disruption resulting from the pandemic,” but with half a year to go until Christmas, “much-needed goods” from the “world’s factory” in China should make it to the U.S. and Europe on time.
