The Fourth of July is a day that is usually a time when families get together for sunshine hot dogs, fun, and fireworks. Every American regardless of race, sex, income, and political party celebrates the day that the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, spurring the start of the American Revolution.Read the whole thing (link).
Like many other national holidays, the meaning can often be lost in the festivities. And so it is up to each of us to, in the words of Jefferson, “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
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Happy Independence day to all fellow-visitors to Americanpowerblog! Today my hope is that we are all patriotic Americans: Neo-cons to leftists, nihilists to Christian conservatives.
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