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Dear Patriot,
In these tumultuous times, it is essential to recognize the pivotal role that each of you plays in shaping the course of our nation. As Patriots, you are not mere spectators but active participants in the ever-evolving political climate surrounding us.
My story begins in Chengdu, China, at the dawn of the Cultural Revolution, an insanity that gripped millions of my countrymen. We were destitute, as were most Chinese during this period.
Watching the back end of a minivan light up is a must-watch piece of internet video. It was so popular among our readers that I went out and found another one—a little more Independence day celebrating gone wild.
The Fourth of July used to mean something in America. Independence Day used to be a sacred holiday that marked the birth of our great country. Brave citizens banded together and decided that they had tolerated enough of an overbearing ruler and took on the most powerful military in the world. England’s Infantry and Navy … Read more
From the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
This is the time of the year that the air is filled with joy and recognition of America’s Independence Day and the formation of one of the greatest nations on Earth. There is something for everyone: spectacular fireworks, family and friends’ gatherings, concerts, patriotic music, parades, and traditional BBQ.
Columnist Josh Barro says you should, “Celebrate American prosperity with your fine kitchen appliances and make the food for the cookout indoors.” Shouldn’t a columnist know that it is not a cookout if you cook in?
Activity is high but we’re heading into a long vacation weekend – Independence Day. Long may our Great American Experiment last – so do your best to celebrate it and make the Democrat / Progressive / Socialist / Communist / Marxist tears flow!
Happy 4th! I hope we can all celebrate the vision and bravery it took for people to rise up to create the US of A. Recall the sacrifices of many of the Declaration signatories, and the continual efforts through the years to keep and strengthen our country through assaults from both inside and out.
COVID19 is of such grave concern to the left that they are cautioning ‘Americans’ not to gather to celebrate independence day unless you are gathering to protest it, then, by all means, as you were.
EAST DERRY, N.H.—With many communities around the state canceling traditional Independence Day celebrations, parades, and fireworks displays on July 4 this year for spurious reasons, ReopenNH is calling all patriots to celebrate American liberty together at the New Hampshire State House from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday.
First of all, Happy Independence Day to everyone who appreciates the essence of today’s holiday. If you are just in it for the hotdogs and day off, I’m sad for you but perhaps there’s still some hope that, one day, you’ll truly get it. If you are one of those who are oh-so-suddenly triggered and … Read more
High heat presents a danger to everyone but if you’ve had a cardiac event you have to pay a bit more attention to the temperature. Medications that slow heart rate reduce the efficiency with which blood flow can help dissipate body heat. Others exaggerate the body’s response to heat. And at no point do you want to make a damaged heart work harder to compensate for excessive exposure to high temperatures.
So, I’m writing this from an air-conditioned room.
The bloggers of RightOnline 2012–sounds like a bad idea for a calendar–took to the internet yesterday to share some thoughts on the 236th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence. And some of those shared posts with each other. I thought it would be helpful to compile a few here at GraniteGrok.
Where there was more than on post offered I selected a single article to feature here. This does not necessarily mean it was the best of the lot so I encourage you to browse for these and other excellent observations when you visit. And feel free to add any or all of these folks to your on-line reading list.
Here are their thoughts or observations in particualr order.
Do you advocate for individual liberty, publicly or privately? Do you revere the U.S. Constitution as a barricade against a federal government metastacized into an enemy of freedom instead of its protector? Do you store food for emergencies? Do you own a gun? Are you a military veteran returned from a war zone assignment? Do you drive a van? Do you pay cash for some purchases? Are you “suspicious of federal government authority”?
According to a new study paid for by the federal Dept. of Homeland Security (“DHS”)…
Thomas Fleming, in the July 2, 2012 Wall Street Journal: As the Revolutionary Way progressed, “not a few of the rebels saw that the Revolution was a spiritual enterprise that would never really end.” For today’s American patriots, so it continues to be….
I am awaiting some important phone calls so today, no parades for me (and I do like parades!). However, Grokster Mike sends this one in from Amhearst:
I know the person that built this – Bill Tobin of Sanborton. A good man, proud of his country and proud of his state – representing the Great Seal of New Hampshire! (And, by the way, an Ovide supporter- that frame on the truck bed is about to sport a pair of Ovide signs) Oh, and Mike found the center of the Obama – Biden contingent:
It is a well reported truism that Independence day, the 4th of July, the day selected as the one on which we told our oppressors we’d take no more, that Republican’s and Conservatives, Libertarians as well, reap more significant social and political benefits than our Liberal and Democrat/Progressive opponents. The people who support the left are just not as in to it. Telling.
So this is not much different than the way many Democrats who run for elected office pander to their still-majority religious nation of ‘God-fearing’ peasants. The patriotism is an act. They pretend to admire the documents and ideas that, at their core, stand between them and the kind of government they prefer. They rearrange the words, and change the meanings to justify acts that reduce us to little more than slaves; either to finance their ambitions or as the impoverished recipients of them. Reduced to subsistence defined by a distant tyrant whose swarms of Officers harass our people, and eat out their substance.
What the left espouses as patriotism would more accurately be defined as Nationalism. The state and the party before all else. Not much different than having a king, something we said we didn’t want 236 years ago.
Which reminds us. It is one thing to declare Independence. It is another thing entirely to have it.
We live in a Republic. Your states are sovereign. Unshackle yourself from the distant tyrant. Just say No to Obama. And if we say no together, there is not much he or any progressive tyrant can do about it. Without us, they are nothing.
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
