http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2013/07/03/zombie-apocalypse/?singlepage=true Sometime in 2011 the total number of film plots with the keyword “zombie” passed the number of film plots with the keyword “cowboy,” according to the Internet Movie Database. One might argue that the zombie has become the great American archetype of the postmodern era, as the cowboy was the American archetype a century […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/352724/self-evident-truths-will-allen Thomas Jefferson’s opening lines of the Declaration of Independence are not the only immortal words associated with the Fourth. Today, when you’re not out grilling hot dogs, setting off fireworks, or narrowly avoiding a life-changing injury during “touch” football with younger relations, take some time to stretch out on the picnic blanket with a […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/352694/press-and-dr-faustus-victor-davis-hanson MAINSTREAM PRESS TO OBAMA….I’M JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU ANYMORE….TOO LATE….RSK In the old Dr. Faustus story, a young scholar bargains away his soul to the devil for promises of obtaining almost anything he wants. The American media has done much the same thing with the Obama administration. In return for empowering a fellow […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/352728/washington-deserves-declaration-incompetence-deroy-murdock As America celebrates this week’s 237th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the federal government deserves a Declaration of Incompetence. Agree or disagree with Washington’s policies, it seems to get almost nothing right. Money flies in every direction as programs flop daily. Subjected by monarchic tyranny in 1776, America now suffers the abuses and […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-thornton/the-lost-meaning-of-independence-day/ Independence Day is a time of backyard barbeques and fireworks, department-store sales and blockbuster movies, patriotic bunting and flying the flag––in short, a time of leisure and consumption, with a few obligatory nods to the momentous event that July 4 is supposed to celebrate. But as the years go by we have lost the […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/revolutionary-times/ Each anniversary, whether of a marriage or a nation, is marked by the time and place that it finds us. Anniversaries are not static. A wedding anniversary that arrives during a rough patch in a marriage changes the way that a couple looks back at that original date. So too it is with nations. […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/thoughts-on-the-fourth-of-july The Fourth of July, otherwise known as Independence Day, is upon us. Many of us are planning picnics, trips to the beach or trips to the mall to take advantage of the inevitable Fourth of July sale. The occasional display of patriotism will also be on hand as communities across the nation put on […]
http://unitedpatriotsworldwide.com/vinienco/ http://unitedpatriotsworldwide.com/vinienco/ BREAKING: Morsi Removed from Office BREAKING: Morsi Removed from Office: Egypt’s top military commander says the army is now in full control of the country and President Mohammed Morsi has been replaced by the chief justice of the constitutional court as the interim head of state. He made the announcements in a Wednesday […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/07/texas_rises.html The gift of fracking has created vast new oil supplies, capable of making America energy independent in a few years, creating millions of jobs, powering economic growth, and crippling the power of OPEC and the Islamic oil producers. Such attention as has been paid to the fracking boom has focused on North Dakota, where […]
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Revolutions are not unique. Before the fireworks begin bursting in showers of life over American skies, they fall sparkling over the crowds of Tahrir Square to commemorate another revolution.
Some countries have revolutions all the time. After a while revolution becomes a national sport. In banana republics, the overthrow of one dictator to make way for another gives everyone a day off from work. But these revolutions, no matter how they are cloaked in the familiar rhetoric of liberty, are nothing more than tyranny by other means.
What made the American Revolution unique was that its cause was not the mere transfer of power from one ruler to another, or one system to another, but a fundamental transformation of the nature of rule. Every revolution claims to be carried out in the name of the people, but it’s never the people who end up running things.
The Declaration of Independence did more than talk about the rights of the people. It placed the people at the center of the nation and its government, not as an undifferentiated mass to be harnessed for whatever propaganda purposes they might be good for, but as individuals with hopes and dreams.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
