Happy birthday, America!

One could do far worse than read the 1926  Calvin  Coolidge  speech celebrating America’s birth.    H/t to Jonah Goldberg for linking to it in his Goldberg File.

Read this to  remind yourself how we got started.

I’m off to watch young children play in the water and eat a lot of food which appears nowhere on the approved list of Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction.