Tag: independence
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A Tale of Two Revolutions
by Frederick Andrew Wolf, Jr., New American Prophet, ©2025 (Jul. 4, 2025) — It’s the middle of the summer, and once more our thoughts turn to that special place in our consciousness we reserve for July 4th. We will again celebrate what we have and how we got it. We may even argue over how…
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Getting Involved: Effective Ways to Help Your Kids Fight Peer Pressure
PREPARING FOR LIFE’S “HARSH REALITIES” by Contributor (Jul. 8, 2020) — When your kids were smaller, it was fairly easy to guide them in the direction you wanted them to go. But as they grow older, and become less and less in your presence, it gets a little harder to keep an eye on them.…
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One Day You May Have To Pick Up A Sword
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2019 (Nov. 10, 2019) — Come on, folks! The handwriting is on the wall. The tea leaves have all been read. There is no way to peacefully and amicably heal the irreconcilable differences between the left and the right and the liberal and the…
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A Declaration of Mineral Independence against Eco Tyranny
IT’S AN ESSENTIAL FIRST STEP IN MAKING THE USA LESS DANGEROUSLY DEPENDENT ON FOREIGN MINERALS by Paul Driessen & Ann Bridges, ©2019 (Jul. 4, 2019) — As we celebrate the Declaration of Independence, let us view it from a 21st century perspective. Many of the colonists’ grievances against King George III resonate today, as tyrannical…
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Why Do 57% of Americans Want More Government?”
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2018, President, NARLO (Jan. 7, 2018) — “In a 2017 poll conducted by NBC News/Wall Street Journal, a record 57% of Americans responded that they want MORE government in their lives, and that the government should be doing more to solve people’s problems. That’s the highest percentage since…
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Fundamental Transformation
“LET US ALL GET INVOLVED” To: Americans Everywhere From: John Porter October 10, 2017 Do you remember when Barack Obama made the statement, publicly, about fundamentally transforming America? Here’s Obama’s original statement, in an October 2008 campaign visit to Columbia, MO, five days before the election: “Now, Missouri, I just have two words for you…
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Thoughts on Government (1776)
“EMBRACING INDEPENDENCE” by James Still, RetraceOurSteps.com (Apr. 1, 2017) — In 1776, John Adams was asked to share his opinions on government. In response, Adams wrote several letters and a pamphlet entitled, Thoughts on Government. Adams touched on three branches of government and a system of checks and balances. Thoughts on Government helped colonists embrace…
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HUD’s Poor Need Paths to Wealth, not Vouchers to Affluent Zip Codes
“OPPORTUNITY CENTERS” COULD REPLACE “EQUITY ASSISTANCE CENTERS” by John Anthony, Founder, Sustainable Freedom Lab, ©2017 (Mar. 1, 2017) — Rather than help low-income families learn the skills to succeed, HUD wants to move them into “opportunity-rich neighborhoods” hoping pre-existing success rubs off. With the new administration, HUD has an opening to help the poor escape…
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Delusion Is Believing Your Vote Will Save America
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Aug. 7, 2016) — Every four years we go through this aggravating and irritating charade called a presidential election. From the Primary to the General it becomes a year-and-a-half long, 24/7 barrage of “He said – She said,” preempting all other news. Wild…
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Brexit for America
SHOULD WE GIVE WASHINGTON STILL MORE POWER OVER OUR LIVES – OR “TAKE BACK CONTROL” by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Jul. 3, 2016) — Independence Day weekend is a perfect time to reflect on personal freedoms and responsibilities. The Magna Carta and Declaration of Independence were about overbearing, despotic kings. Brexit, Britain’s decision to leave the European…
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Happy Birthday, Stonewall
“I LOVE VIRGINIA MORE” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Jan. 21, 2016) — I take a lot of pride in being an unapologetic and unreconstructed Confederate Rebel; perhaps you have noticed. If you have, it should come as no surprise to you at all that two of my historical heroes are…
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“Gun-Free Zones” Provide a Target-Rich Environment
“FARMERS WITH PITCHFORKS” WON THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE by Bob Russell, ©2015, blogging at Conservative Daily News (Nov. 23, 2015) — A “gun free zone” merely gives murderers a license from the government to kill at will without fear of resistance. Any government official that condones such activity is guilty of treason and is complicit…
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Taking Up Arms (1775)
“A RESIDENCE FOR CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM” by James Still, ©2015, Retraceoursteps.com (Nov. 1, 2015) — In June 1775, Congress appointed a committee to write a “Declaration” to be proclaimed by General Washington “upon his Arrival at the Camp before Boston.” This proclamation was called the “Declaration on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up…
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Can A Country of Whites, Blacks, Latinos and Muslims Survive?
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2015, President, NARLO (Sep. 13, 2015) — Put five people in a room to discuss a problem and you will most likely get five different opinions, five different solutions and a whole bunch of squabbling about who is right. And that is if those five people…
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Voluntary Charity vs. Compassion At The Point of A Gun
“IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2013 (Aug. 25, 2013) — “Mr. Speaker: We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to so appropriate a dollar of the public money. We cannot,…
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The Real Issue at Hand
WHAT IS A “SOVEREIGN CITIZEN?” by Gunnery Sergeant John McClain, USMC, Retired, ©2013, blogging at Gulf1 (Jul. 25, 2013) — The single most important aspect of the agitation of our founders against The British Empire across an ocean, dictating to us our laws absent our representation, without ever setting foot on the land here, was…
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I’M not “Civilized”
WHAT IS REAL INDEPENDENCE? by OPOVV, ©2013 (Jan. 22, 2013) — Call me a Birther, but don’t call me “blind to the truth.” Call me an “Oath Keeper, but don’t say I ever turned my back on my country. Don’t say I’m an ostrich with my head in the sand, avoiding seeing, reading, and hearing anything…
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America, Home of the Brave and Land of the Free
SLAVERY OR RESPONSIBILITY? by M. Sidney Wallace, ©2012, blogging at Gulf1 (Dec. 1, 2012) — I had the opportunity to re-read Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address over Thanksgiving. Using this historical document as a pattern I have written a short epistle that seems to be appropriate. Two hundred twenty five years ago representatives of the thirteen…