Tag: American Revolution

History: The Failure to Stop Thomas Paine

June 6, 2025 George Ford Smith

The United States, formerly these united colonies, is preparing for its 250th anniversary of its break-up from that era’s “Great Satan” by reminding us of what brought it about, such as the Battle of Lexington and Concord and subsequent battles of 1775, along with issues that preceded them. In spite of all the bloodshed and fiery tavern rhetoric, most … Read more

1775: Putting Tyrants on the Run

April 24, 2025 James Bovard

April 19 was the 250th anniversary of American militiamen routing the best army in the world. Seven hundred British troops arrogantly came out of Boston early that day in 1775 to seize firearms and gunpowder in Concord, Massachusetts. By the time the tattered remnants of that force escaped back to Boston, hundreds of British troops … Read more

The Real Root Cause of the American Revolution

March 24, 2025 Michael Boldin

Think the American Revolution was just about taxes, tea parties, and representation? Think again. The real conflict wasn’t about a few policies. It was about power – a British claim to unlimited, centralized power “in all cases whatsoever.” James Madison later called this the “fundamental principle” on which independence itself was declared. And he was far … Read more

Before Boston: The Tea Revolt That Began in Philadelphia

February 6, 2025 Mike Maharrey

The Boston Tea Party is arguably the best-known event leading up to the war for independence, but a number of leading Revolutionaries, including Benjamin Rush and John Adams, held that it actually started in Philadelphia. Resolutions adopted during a Philadelphia town meeting on Oct. 16, 1773, set the stage for the Boston Tea Party in … Read more

The Sermon That Laid the Groundwork for the American Revolution

November 30, 2024 Michael Boldin

“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” Just after the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776, a committee of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin worked to design a great seal for the United States – and it included that powerful phrase on the reverse. While we don’t know who originally wrote it, … Read more

Thomas Jefferson’s Solution from the Revolution

October 16, 2024 Michael Boldin

A nullity” and “we declare these acts void“ This was the bold conclusion about British Acts that Thomas Jefferson came to in his powerful 1774 pamphlet, A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Written nearly two years before the Declaration of Independence, it foreshadowed ideas Jefferson would later develop further. He asserted several fundamental principles that … Read more

Pulpit Polity – Prayers and the Governing of Our Nation

October 29, 2023 Op-Ed

This week, let’s look at the role that prayer played in the founding of our nation and is still a part of our civil ceremonies, but I might add, forbidden in our public schools.

Pulpit Polity – One of Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Inspirations

October 15, 2023 Op-Ed

There were so many important voices during the Revolution that founded our great country. Politicians, Lawyers, Doctors, and, of course, Clergymen! In fact, the brightest stars of the Revolution were the voices of ardent clergymen whose hearts set on freedom for all men and whose tongues were swords of truth to set the captives free!

Pulpit Polity – The Parsons Rebellion

October 8, 2023 Op-Ed

In the inception of our nation, Pastors played a key role. Unfortunately, that is often overlooked in the annals of recorded history. This week, I want to focus on that role as recorded in history from various sources.

Quick Thought – This Is Correct; They Are Trying to Break Us

July 18, 2022 Skip

From Liberal Logic 101: Progressives, on the other hand, not only wish to crush that spirit but continue the process of forcing a dependency upon Government that started in the early 1900s. They believe they are entitled to Rule. Oh, not them personally (well, many of them) but knowing that the facade would be sufficient … Read more

Promoted from the Comments – “You Will Be Made to Care”

September 8, 2021 Skip

That line above is from my blogging friend, Erick Erickson, who created it a few years ago in response to the Left’s constant “you are either with us or you are our enemy” activism. There was no middle ground that could be chosen.

Sununu Legilature Budget meme - British meet the colonials

His Excellency Governor Sununu Offered Our Representatives Everything (Not), with the Exception of Independence

July 9, 2021 Op-Ed

Sometime after the American Colonies declared independence, Great Britain offered them everything they could imagine, with the exception of independence.

Independence Day – “The Dear George” Letter

July 4, 2021July 4, 2021 Steve MacDonald

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The Truth Shall Set You Free

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 Percy Blakeney

Today we see the results of years and years of secularist attacks on religion. There has been a denial of eternal truths and the exclusion of religion and morality from public life. But here’s the rub. You can’t have the freedom to peaceably assemble for a redress of grievances. Not unless you have morality.

Have we lost our sense of proportion?

April 29, 2020April 28, 2020 Stephen Scaer

Late one evening years ago, I stepped outside and was greeted by a police officer kneeling beside his car with his gun drawn. He told me to get back in the house, and I complied with his excellent suggestion. This was a real emergency. I learned later that one of my neighbors was unwell and had brandished a gun.

Wrong – if today’s media had covered the American Revolution…

May 27, 2019May 27, 2019 Skip

…they’d be Royalist regressive toadies. And their coats will still be Red but for a different political philosophy (and not being a Republican, either). (H/T: Powerline)

Re: Take it back or burn it down

September 26, 2018April 12, 2013 Steve MacDonald

“Fire upon it, my dear Marquis, and never spare a particle of my property so long as it affords a comfort or a shelter to the enemies of my country. – Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson, when asked by Marquis de Lafayette, who was commanding the artillery barrage of Yorktown in the American War of Independence, … Read more