The Racial Industrial Complex: Why Healing Is Bad for Business
If you’ve ever wondered why some people seem allergic to national healing, follow the incentives. Misery has an economy. Outrage has a payroll.
History
Thank you, England: Too bad you’ve abandoned the civil liberties that you gave us
A few Brits on Twitter congratulated us on our 250th birthday as a nation by reminding us that this Sunday they will celebrate the 1,099th anniversary of their nationhood.
Well, cheers to them as well.
Washington’s Revolutionary War flag
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to formally vote to declare independence from Great Britain. The vote of the states was 12 yes, 0 no, and 1 abstention. New York failed to vote because its delegates claimed they lacked direction from their state government.
Mercury: The Miracle Metal That Tries to Kill Everyone
Mercury was once the miracle metal. Doctors prescribed it. Gold miners depended on it. Hat makers worked with it. NASA even launched it into space as the propellant for experimental ion engines. Then science caught up. The same liquid metal that advanced civilization was quietly attacking the human brain, poisoning rivers, and climbing the food chain. Mercury is a reminder that some of humanity’s greatest innovations come with a simple question we often ask too late: What if the miracle is actually the warning?
New York welcomes Sail4th 250 Parade of Tall Ships
As the nation marked its 250th anniversary, a massive flotilla headed to New York City for the Sail4th 250 gathering of warships and historic vessels. Bradley Blackburn and Alice Gainer report.
The Great American Lawn: Our Dumb Little Kingdoms of Grass
For a nation founded by farmers, we sure spend a lot of time maintaining grass we can’t eat. The American lawn wasn’t born out of practicality—it was imported from European aristocrats as a symbol of wealth. Today, millions of us faithfully burn fuel, spread fertilizer, and surrender our Saturdays maintaining tiny suburban kingdoms that exist mostly to impress the neighbors. We rejected kings in 1776, then spent the next two centuries pretending to be them, one freshly mowed lawn at a time.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEWS with Don Surber
Check out this week’s round-up of the media’s feeble attempt to report the news. Don Surber is your guide. You’ll appreciate his snarky sense of humor on our Fourth Estate.
Birthright Citizenship For CCP Elite: Chinese Communists To Begin Voting In 2029
In 2036 sons & daughters of the CCP elites will qualify to run for the US House. In 2041 they will qualify to run for the US Senate. In 2046, they will be eligible to run for the US Presidency. THIS is the Trojan Horse 6 justices gave America because they fear the Leftist mob will come after their family members.
THE ETERNAL EMPIRE–Daniel’s Vision and the Sovereign Hand of God
What if the ancient Roman Empire—the brutal, iron-fisted superpower that crucified our Lord—never actually died, but is quietly ruling the world today? Welcome back to our small group study! John Barnett here. I want you to imagine we are sitting right across the table from each other at Panera or Starbucks, with our Bibles wide …
4th of July: Don’t Appreciate Our Freedoms? Try Living In a Dictatorship!
There is nothing like living in a dictatorship to appreciate the significance of our precious Bill of Rights. This photo of yours truly was taken in 1973 when, along with the protection of my American passport, I resided in the Republic of China (Taiwan) while it was under Chiang’s dictatorship.
The Supreme Court sanctions America’s path to Self-destruction
In its decision to reject President Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship by ruling that he does not have the power to unilaterally overturn the longstanding principle that guarantees citizenship to all children born in the United States, the Supreme Court is sanctioning the nation’s path to self-annihilation.
Defining MAGA
On July 17, 1980, Ronald Reagan accepted the Republican nomination for president. In his acceptance speech, he said, “For those who have abandoned hope, we’ll restore hope and we’ll welcome them into a great national crusade to make America great again!”
Electoral College Was Designed To End Slavery And Protect Small States From Big State Bullies
In 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention went to Philadelphia to create a stronger national government than what existed under the first national framework of government, the Articles of Confederation. The issue of slavery was not on the agenda, but could not be avoided.
Undermining First Principles
One of the first liberating principles upon which our republic was founded…going back to well before the Declaration of Independence…declared that men could actually govern themselves.
The Declaration of Dependence: The Loyalists sent their own letter to London. It did not go well for them
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.
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
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?
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.
A Democratic Socialist by any other Name is still a Communist
In the 1960s, when I joined the U.S. Army, the communists that we opposed were in places like North Korea, China, the Soviet Union, Cuba, and, of course, Vietnam. That is no longer the case. Today, the communists we were once trained to kill are here within our borders, not “over there.”
The Greatest Piece of Military Equipment Was a Tiny Bottle of Tabasco
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.