History

The Declaration of Dependence: The Loyalists sent their own letter to London. It did not go well for them

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On Saturday, the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary in this Year of the Bicentennial+50. The Continental Congress declared independence on July 2, 1776. Two days later, they debated and edited the Declaration of Independence. On July 8, 1776, Colonel John Nixon publicly read the Declaration aloud in Philadelphia’s State House yard (now Independence Square). This was accompanied by bell ringing (including the Liberty Bell), cheers, and some military displays.

LBJ DIDN’T BUILD A GREAT SOCIETY. HE BUILT A TRAP. And the cruelest part? The data proving it was right in front of them the whole time.

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I am a science teacher. So before we do anything else, we are going to look at the actual data. Because the data DESTROYS the entire narrative.

Black poverty in America fell from 87 percent in 1940 to 47 percent in 1960. That is FORTY POINTS in twenty years. Before the Great Society. Before Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. Before a single dollar of the $22 trillion the federal government has spent on poverty programs since 1965. The free market, economic growth, and an intact family culture did that — forty points — in two decades.

The Theology Nobody Told You About

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For nearly 1,800 years, Christians did not believe supporting a modern nation-state was a biblical mandate. Then a nineteenth-century theological system changed how millions read prophecy—and eventually how many viewed foreign policy. This is the untold story of John Nelson Darby, dispensationalism, and how a theological innovation became so deeply woven into American Christianity that many now assume it has always been there.

Did we keep a republic?

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On September 17, 1787, the final day of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin, 81, shared with his fellow delegates his assessment of the new Constitution:

I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them: For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

The Greatest Piece of Military Equipment Was a Tiny Bottle of Tabasco

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Every veteran remembers that tiny glass bottle of Tabasco tucked inside an MRE. Most of us assumed it had always been there—or heard ridiculous barracks rumors that it was issued to keep you awake on guard duty. The truth is even better. It wasn’t the product of a Pentagon study or a billion-dollar procurement program. It was the idea of a Marine who understood that morale sometimes comes in a one-eighth-ounce bottle. This is the story of how one of the most beloved pieces of military “equipment” earned its place in America’s rucksacks—one spicy meal at a time.

Dictators, Democrats, and Iran – Is There a Difference: Perfect is the enemy of good.

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I have always favored the 85% solution over the perfect solution, as perfect is never achieved, but with an 85% solution one can look to improve it if the situation allows. The fourteen point Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Trump administration and Iran is just that a memo. The objectives President Trump laid out has achieved 99% of what he set out to do – stop Iran from making a nuclear weapon and destroy their ability to do so.

Thoughts about America, the Flag, and Patriotism as we Approach America’s 250th Birthday (Part Two)

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Here’s a question for you: Can a nation so bitterly divided reunite and enjoy its 250th birthday this July 4th? Is patriotism in America dead—a quaint relic of another time when Americans (both Democrat and Republican) were proud of their country?

Why Americans reject metric: The joke is true. The American revolution was about weights and measures.

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Comic Nate Bargatze did what was once thought impossible. By playing General Washington, he brought comedy back to SNL after a 30-year absence with two skits called Washington’s Dream in which the general shares his vision of America.

The Myths We Teach Ourselves About Slavery

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Slavery was a moral evil, but that doesn’t mean every story we’ve inherited about it is historically accurate. Most Southern households did not own slaves. A common soldier couldn’t afford one. Former slave owners were generally not compensated after emancipation. Industrialization didn’t make slavery obsolete—it often made it more profitable. The Civil War itself was far more complex than the slogans we use to describe it. History deserves better than mythology. We can condemn slavery without reservation while still insisting on facts over folklore, because understanding the past honestly is the only way to understand the present clearly.

The Great Cosmic Scorecard

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Every civilization seems to invent a cosmic scorecard. The ancient Egyptians had the 42 Assessors of Ma’at. Modern culture has social media, political tribes, and endless virtue signaling. The question never changes: Have you done enough?

Christianity’s answer is radically different. It doesn’t tell us to try harder, climb higher, or balance the scales. It tells us the scales can never be balanced by human effort alone. Grace—God’s unearned favor—is the answer to a problem humanity has wrestled with for thousands of years. The Gospel is not the story of people reaching up to God, but of God reaching down to people. That’s why Christians call it good news.

The Obamausoleum opens; A fitting tribute to an unfit man

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The Obamas opened his presidential center (not library because that would require reading) on Thursday.

The duo gave speeches, which were really lectures. Mister Obama drones less than Al Gore but he is just as sophomoric in his mannerism and sophist in his reasoning. Both men received Nobel Peace Prizes. Two decades after Gore’s, the inconvenient truth is he lied to make money and remain relevant.

Thoughts about America and the American Flag as we approach our 250th Birthday (Part One)

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I have often heard the phrase: “Democrats hate our country.” Somehow, it always seemed a bit too imprecise and all-encompassing to condemn an entire political party for having such an unpatriotic conviction. After all, my parents and most of my family were Democrats, and I know they loved their country. I personally know other Democrats …

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The Forgotten Reset Beneath Lake Huron

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What if our ancestors really did survive a global catastrophe?

Beneath the waters of Lake Huron lies the Alpena–Amberley Ridge, a prehistoric hunting landscape that once connected Michigan and Ontario. Today it sits submerged and largely forgotten. To some researchers, it is evidence of sophisticated hunters tracking migrating caribou 9,000 years ago. To others, it raises a far bigger question: how much of humanity’s ancient story now lies underwater?

The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis remains controversial, but the idea is difficult to ignore. If a cosmic event helped trigger dramatic climate shifts, floods, and environmental upheaval near the end of the Ice Age, what would the world have looked like a few thousand years later? Perhaps not a world of lost super-civilizations, but one of survivors rebuilding, adapting, and passing down memories of a world forever changed.

The Alpena–Amberley Ridge doesn’t prove the theory. What it does prove is that entire landscapes, ecosystems, and chapters of human history can disappear beneath the waves. The real mystery may not be what we’ve found, but what remains hidden.