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…
On Sunday, a statue of Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York, was damaged after being toppled from its pedestal. The statue, which stood in Maplewood Park, was vandalized on the 168th anniversary of Douglass’ famous Independence Day speech, in which…
We celebrate July 4 as our Independence Day because that was the date of the formal adoption of the Declaration of Independence by Congress. The year was 1776, but the goal of establishing a government by which the people largely…
Dear Friends: I like your country because you know how to celebrate holidays properly. As a good Spaniard, there is nothing that appeals to me more than a big party where most people seem to have gone crazy right from…
Proud Americans will be donning shirts, hats, socks, and masks patterned after the stars and stripes this Independence Day to celebrate our great nation. But disaffected liberals will be protesting America’s supposedly inherent hatred and oppression by taking virtue-signaling to…
No one likes a glum Gus in a foxhole. As the bullets fly in America’s cities, monuments get defaced, and property is destroyed, the pandemic living room is turning into a panic room. Americans, hunkered down and afraid, try to…
There is more than a coincidental connection between Hong Kong’s protests and America’s independence movement. On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong was forced from British control, while over two centuries earlier, America forcibly left British control. The two separations are…
On Independence Day, I had the great opportunity of attending President Trump’s “Salute To America” speech. This is the first time I have been able to attend an event where a sitting president addressed the nation. Tens of thousands of…
As an exercise in self-immolation this July 4th fireworks season, I read Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dissenting opinion in the Bladensburg cross case. It’s a flaming attack upon religious freedom — the first freedom in our Bill of Rights. At the…
