Tag: Independence Day
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USA Independence 250
by Allan Wall, ©2026 (Jul. 3, 2026) — The Fourth of July 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. It’s the day it was approved and sent to be printed. Except for the big signature of John Hancock, it was signed later. Think of it, the…
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Independence Day 2021
by Robert C. Laity, ©2021 (Jul. 4, 2021) — Reflecting on Benjamin Franklin’s words 245 years ago, “We have a republic if we can keep it,” “We the People” have managed to “keep” the United States Republic going since he made that famous statement. The question now, in 2021, is will “We the People” continue…
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Of Democrat Patriots and Doubling-Down
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Jul. 4, 2021) — On this, our nation’s 245th celebration of independence from the yoke of British rule, a few observations are in order, even as dark clouds of internal dissension brood and grow on the horizon. Your humble servant recently proposed here, here and here that one of the few…
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Just How Long Are Free Americans Going To Take It?
by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2021 (Jul. 4, 2021) — “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” — Patrick Henry, Founding Father and American attorney, planter and politician “The only way to…
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The Left’s Attack on the Fourth of July
ANOTHER STEP IN ERASING OUR COLLECTIVE MEMORY by Scot Faulkner, ©2020 (Oct. 19, 2020) — My previous column raised alarms about radical leftists who want to obliterate everything good that America ever did or aspired to achieve, and sow the seeds for future generations to revile and reject everything that is decent and noble in…
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The Irrational Emotion and Radical Idealism of the Young
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2020 (Jul. 5, 2020) — “The same teen who can’t legally operate a four-wheeler in a workplace environment, can operate a jacked-up F-250 pickup on a crowded urban expressway. By denying these opportunities to bring value to their own lives and the community around…
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Happy Birthday, America
“THE BEST NATION IN HISTORY” by Bob Russell, ©2020 (Jul. 4, 2020) — Today is the 244th birthday of America and the 11th anniversary of my writing “career.” I wrote my first blog article on this date in 2010 as a letter to bathhouse barry obama, the ineligible, anti-American slug infesting the highest office in…
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Trump, this 4th of July, Will Show He Will Never Desert/Betray Australia!
“BROTHERS-IN-ARMS” May 16, 2020 Dear Editor, During the 2020 U.S. 4th of July, Independence Day, celebrations, Donald Trump will almost certainly celebrate his confirmation of Australia’s vital role in producing parts for America’s revolutionary F-35 warplane, and his influencing of America’s allies to buy Australian goods and services)! For all his enigmatic, cavalier ways, U.S.…
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The Left’s War against America
“THEY CAN ALWAYS LEAVE” by Jeff Crouere, ©2019 (Jul. 6, 2019) — On this Independence Day weekend, all Americans should thank God we live in this country. We are indeed fortunate to be Americans and reside in the “land of the free and the home of the brave.” This is the country that liberated the…
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A July 4th Story
PHOSPHORUS FOR FIREWORKS by John Bugnolo, ©2019 (Jul. 5, 2019) — Back in 1989 as a member of the Massachusetts National Guard 1/102nd FA battery A, we were deployed to a Canadian Army base outside of Fredericton, New Brunswick (Gagetown) during the July 4th weekend. It was kind-of a remorse not being with the family for the celebration of Independence Day. …
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Is the 4th of July Truly Independence Day?”
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2019 (Jul. 3, 2019) — “And the rocket’s red glare ….. the bombs bursting in air ….. gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave ….. O’er the land of the free and…
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Happy Fourth of July—–God Bless The USA
“A SECOND SYMBOLIC BIRTHDAY” by Capt. Joseph R. John (Ret), ©2018 (Jul. 4, 2018) — Each year on Independence Day, the Fourth of July, Americans celebrate, express their support for the freedoms they enjoy, and recognize the unlimited opportunities afforded them to improve their stations in life because of the free enterprise system that built…
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If America Goes Socialist Is Civil War Inevitable?
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2018, President, NARLO (Jul. 3, 2018) — “In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter…
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The Newburgh Veterans (1783)
THE “INVALUABLE PRICE” OF INDEPENDENCE by James Still, ©2018, RetraceOurSteps.com (Jul. 1, 2018) — Ten years after the American Revolution, Elias Boudinot gave a speech on the Fourth of July, reminding his audience of the Newburgh Conspiracy. During the war, soldiers had been fighting and dying for their country while their families were surviving mostly…
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Constitutional Educator KrisAnne Hall Speaks of “Encroachments” Leading to American Independence
“LIBERTY MUST AT ALL HAZARDS BE SECURED” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 4, 2017) — Constitutional educator, attorney, and U.S. Army veteran KrisAnne Hall has released a video in her new “Liberty First University” series in which she narrates the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence by 56 men, declaring the…
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Happy Fourth of July–God Bless The USA
“A SYMBOLIC SECOND BIRTHDAY” by Capt. Joseph R. John (Ret),Chairman, CombatVeteransForCongress.org (Jul. 2, 2017) — Each year on Independence Day, the Fourth of July, Americans celebrate, express their support for the freedoms they enjoy, and recognize the unlimited opportunities afforded them to improve their station in life because of the Free Enterprise System. The Fourth…
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Fourth of July: The First Anniversary (1777)
“THE FACE OF JOY AND GLADNESS WAS UNIVERSAL” by James Still, ©2017, RetraceOurSteps.com (Jul. 1, 2017) — On the first anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Congress adjourned for the day and dined with military officers and various dignitaries. British deserters and the Hessian band, taken at the Battle of Trenton, also joined the festivities. A…
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And the Lies Just Keep Coming…
“THE SOUND OF SILENCE” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2016 (Jul. 4, 2016) — “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” — Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Third Reich Minister of Propaganda Speaking of Hillary Clinton, as once again, faithful P&E readers, we celebrate another July Fourth, we…
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A Holiday Totally Perverted
“A COMPLETE AND TOTAL CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Jul. 4, 2016) — *Author’s warning: If you came to this article hoping to find some feel-good, stars and stripes forever, hero worshipping, reality avoiding diatribe, just move along—there is nothing to see here. But, if you realize our government…
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What Was That 4th of July Freedom Again?
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Jul. 2, 2016) — As Patrick Henry’s cry of freedom, “Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Death” echoes across the passages of time, has it not become meaningless in the 241 years since it was uttered at the Virginia Convention on March 23,…