What Jefferson wrought…

That’s the title of  this piece by Rich Lowry on the man who laid the foundation for our republic.   Stroube Smith comments on our Founders’   bravery and uncertainty.

For an appreciation of freedom by a modern man whose mother was a Polish freedom fighter,  read this by Marc Thiessen.   Be sure to pay attention to this  email from a Navy ensign.   If we’re still producing young men and women who think this way,  at least some of us are doing something right!

Look back  70 years to Winston Churchill’s  July 4th address to America.

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.