Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
On July 2, 1776, the 2nd Continental Congress voted to approve the Declaration of Independence and sent it print. Congress did not officially declare Independence and release the document to the public until July 4, 1776. Nonetheless, on July 3, 1776, John Adams wrote a letter to his beloved wife, Abigail,
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Happy Fourth of July. On this day, in 1776, our Founders passed The Declaration of Independence, severing ties with Great Britain and announcing the birth of a new nation. The American colonists were then in the midst of a war that would see battles in all thirteen colonies, with the
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John Adams’s letter to his wife following the July 2, 1776 vote in the First Second Continental Congress to approve the Declaration of Independence. . . . The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that
Continue readingMy friend Wolf Howling, who is probably one of the best educated people in America about the American Revolution, has put together a marvelously lean and informative post about the colonists’s decision to part ways with Britain, including an annotated Declaration of Independence explaining the particular grievances to which the
Continue readingLast night, we went to see the American Conservative Conservatory Theater’s production of 1776 — The Musical. It was a lovely production, with almost uniformly strong performances. 1776 hit Broadway in 1969, at the height of the Vietnam war and one year into Nixon’s first term. Although ostensibly meant to
Continue readingSo far, despite the efforts of some people who will go nameless in this post, we continue to be blessed to live in the United States of America. Despite the constant nibbling away at the edges, we are still a land of free, brave, and prosperous people, and we can
Continue readingFellow Weasel Watcher Greg, at Rhymes with Right, came up with a good poster likening every woman’s right to have a gun to a black woman’s right to sit anywhere she wants in the bus. That poster, combined with a discussion I had with some young ‘uns about the Bill
Continue readingI woke up this morning to find that my Leftist friends literally plastered Facebook with the above poster. (Since I grew up and still live in the Bay Area, I have lots of Leftist friends.) If the text on the image is unclear, this is what it says: There is
Continue readingOn July 4, 1776, American citizens made their Declaration of Independence known to the world. Although the bulk of the document is a catalog of very specific grievances against George III, the document is remembered for its stirring beginning, describing “unalienable” rights inherent in all human beings, as well as
Continue readingPeople of Iran: Traditionally, the president of the United States has been the spokesperson for the people of the United States — or, at least, for a majority of the people of the United States. For the first time in modern history, however, we have a president who appears incapable
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