George Rebane
Think of all the things that have happened in and to our beloved Republic during the last twelve months since we last celebrated our country’s birthday. In this interval the country has again grown more apart than it has been since our 19th century’s ante-bellum days. The two sides seek markedly different futures for America – one side decrying the nation’s past and publicly denying their desired destination, while the other side spells it out and celebrates the historic road that, with some miles unpaved, we have traveled. But even with our life-threatening wounds, we all should celebrate that we still live in a land which allows both sides access to sufficient public podia from which to make their case for America’s best future. (A couple of years ago this was our 4th of July outlook.)
Happy 4th of July
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 04 July 2022 at 12:14 PM
THE ETERNAL MEANING OF INDEPENDENCE DAY
President Calvin Coolidge celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1926, with a speech providing a magisterial review of the history and thought underlying the Declaration. His speech on the occasion deserves to be read and studied in its entirety. The following paragraph, however, is particularly relevant to the challenge that confronts us in the variants of the progressive dogma that pass themselves off today as the higher wisdom:
“About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.“
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 04 July 2022 at 04:50 PM
NPR Puts July 4th On The Woke-Wagon, Scraps Annual Reading Of The Declaration Of Independence
https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-puts-july-4th-on-the-woke-wagon-scraps-annual-reading-of-the-declaration-of-independence
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 05 July 2022 at 09:29 AM
BillT 450p - Thank you Mr Tozer for that most appropriate post.
Posted by: George Rebane | 05 July 2022 at 09:36 AM
After bungling the 4th of july msg and doing a photo op with the crackhead the truth is out and no one other than the 10 percent who have brain damage are ok with it. Hey who was vp in 2013 hmmmmm... -
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/05/only-10-percent-say-joe-bidens-america-is-headed-in-right-direction-worst-result-since-2013/
;-)
Posted by: Don Bessee | 05 July 2022 at 04:20 PM