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Joe Biden Thinks He Decides Whether We Can Celebrate Independence Day With Family and Friends

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 23, 2021 40 Comments

In March, Joe Biden told America that if we all behave and wear masks, maybe we would be allowed to gather in small groups on the fourth of July. Now he is warning that we might not have behaved well enough to celebrate our freedom.

Remembering John Adams’ Support of the Declaration of Independence

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on July 04, 2016 7 Comments

Thomas Jefferson rightly receives the lionshare of credit for writing the Declaration of Independence, though he wasn't the only founder who had a hand in its creation. Following the introduction and debate of Richard Henry Lee's resolution to dissolve ties with Great Britain, the Second Continental Congress appointed a Committee of Five -- John Adams, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston, and Thomas Jefferson -- to write the Declaration during the Congressional recess. Later, Jefferson wrote of the Committee:

"unanimously pressed on myself alone to undertake the draught [sic]. I consented; I drew it; but before I reported it to the committee I communicated it separately to Dr. Franklin and Mr. Adams requesting their corrections. . . I then wrote a fair copy, reported it to the committee, and from them, unaltered to the Congress."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zhq_-WvLtA

Ronald Reagan’s Independence Day Radio Address to the Nation (1983)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 04, 2016 4 Comments

Happy Independence Day to all our readers. It's one of those days when we all should remember and celebrate our own "Brexit". Brexit America Been There Done That

Enjoy this video President Ronald Reagan's 1983 Independence Day address to the nation.

Have a very Happy Independence Day! while you still can

Posted by New Neo on July 04, 2014 3 Comments

Beware a mindset that knows no boundaries of that sort...

http://www.founding.com/repository/imgLib/20071018_declaration.jpg

Driving the 4th of July off campus

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 04, 2014 4 Comments

There is excellent article at See Thru Education by Robert Paquette, Hamilton College Professor of History, who also is a co-founder of The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. Previously, we have featured Prof. Paquette's battles with multicultural dogma on campus, Western Civilization driven off campus at Hamilton College. Prof. Paquette's post is How American Universities Assassinated the Fourth of July:

“American exceptionalism” would not become the whipping-bench of the professoriate until the last decades of the twentieth century, yet Americans from the first Independence Day onward, without the term in their lexicon, had a sense, somewhat mystical, but nonetheless deeply ingrained, of what might be called an orthodoxy, that their system of government exemplified by design a standard of moral rectitude that would not only bring peace and prosperity to themselves but serve as a liberating beacon light for oppressed people around the world....