Independence Day Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Feb 12, 2024

If you’re at all familiar with the story of independence in South America, you likely know the name Simón Bolívar. The liberator-turned-dictator was almost single-handedly responsible for liberating the northwestern quarter of the South American continent. But Bolívar wasn’t the…

by | Jul 3, 2022

This Independence Day, Americans’ minds turn toward those who fought and died for the country and the people in that country they love. These people were, are, filled with hopes and dreams and ideals — ways to live a free…

by | Jul 3, 2022

I remember one of my first public debates with a liberal. It was 1989. I was editor of the editorial page in my campus newspaper, The Pitt News, which was published Monday through Thursday, with a huge print circulation of…

by | Oct 12, 2021

Today, October 12, is Spain’s National Day and I celebrate it here with my dear American readers with two times the pride: for being Spanish and for having been insulted by Joe Biden. To be scorned by the dumbest president…

by | Jul 6, 2021

On July 4 this year, liberal media declared independence from America’s most treasured cultural symbols.  While media undermining of Independence Day itself is not new — Vox famously declared that “the American Revolution was a mistake” in 2019 — the…

by | Jul 4, 2021

Dear Left: On Independence Day, please stay home. Give America one day of respite to celebrate what you have spent the other 364 days of the year denigrating. On our national holiday, there is no greater gift that you could…

by | Jul 4, 2021

July 4, 2021 A perfect, blue sky, white fleecy clouds day over my swimming pool here in Beverly Hills. My wife is lying in her bed, fast asleep. I am remembering a day 56 years ago in Washington, D.C. On…

by | Jul 4, 2021

On July 4, 1776, 245 years ago, our Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. It was on that sacred day, in that charter, that the foundation for our country’s philosophy was laid and the principles that would…

by | Jul 3, 2021

Tomorrow I will uncork an expensive wine and toast my American friends and readers. When drinking and playing loud music is in the cards, I could celebrate the national day of Ethiopia, but the truth is that after Columbus Day…

by | Jul 3, 2021

It’s almost Independence Day, and we finally have permission from Good Ole Joe to emerge from our basement bunkers for a small barbeque with our closest family and friends. Now that the White House has praised the presence of people…

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