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Wednesday, July 04, 2018

What is the rest of the story?

What is the rest of the story?
Tara Ross
"On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress adopts our Declaration of Independence.
It had already resolved on July 2 that “these United Colonies are, and, of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States . . . .”
Now it formally adopted a written document, too.
It took nearly a month to write the Declaration!
You may know that Thomas Jefferson was the primary author, but he had help, too.
What is the rest of the story?
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The Passing of The Declaration of Independence - John Adams - HBO

#1 This day 1974-----Hues Corporation - Rock the Boat

5 Forgotten Signers of the Declaration of Independence | Intellectual Takeout

5 Forgotten Signers of the Declaration of Independence | Intellectual Takeout
"On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress made a momentous decision: it voted to “dissolve the connection” with Great Britain.
The war had entered a new stage and everyone knew it.
“We are in the very midst of a revolution,” John Adams wrote, “the most complete, unexpected, and remarkable of any in the history of nations.”
We celebrate the Declaration of Independence today, but the men signing it knew they could be signing their own death warrants.

Bear in mind, up until July 1776, the conflict had been relatively tame.

But by putting their name to a document declaring independence, the signers were committing public treason.

There was no going back. If the colonies failed, they would likely hang.

But they signed, putting their lives and fortunes at risk.
Many of the names of the signatories are familiar to us. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, future presidents.

John Hancock, president of the congress and the first man to sign the Declaration. Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, members of the prestigious Virginia family.

There was, of course, Ben Franklin, America’s renaissance man. Dr. Benjamin Rush, the enlightened surgeon.

Other names—Livingston, Gerry, Morris, Wythe, etc.—are also familiar, if vaguely so.
But what about the rest?

Fifty-six delegates signed the Declaration of Independence (probably on Aug. 2, 1776, but possibly on July 4, or a combination of the two dates). Who were they?
The majority of names on the Declaration mean nothing to us, or almost nothing.

They are forgotten to all but historians, history buffs, and a smattering of people claiming lineage to a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

In many cases, they were men equally great or close to it.

Here are five you may not be familiar with:

1. John Witherspoon (1723–1794)

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Steve Hilton: I didn’t get the true genius of America’s founders till I moved here. Here’s what worries me now. | Fox News

Steve Hilton: I didn’t get the true genius of America’s founders till I moved here. Here’s what worries me now. | Fox News:

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It wasn’t until I actually lived in the U.S. that I started to understand the true genius of America’s founders and what they put in place two-and-a-half centuries ago. I saw it in the way that contemporary political debates are conducted with reference to the framers’ intent. I saw it in the huge importance of Supreme Court rulings – reported and debated with a prominence commensurate with the judiciary’s status as a co-equal branch of government – but totally alien to someone familiar with the British system.

RIGHT SENTIMENT, WRONG DAY: On this day in 1776 (and not July 4th), the Continental Congress voted…

RIGHT SENTIMENT, WRONG DAY: �On this day in 1776 (and not July 4th), the Continental Congress voted…
"JULY 2, 2018

RIGHT SENTIMENT, WRONG DAY: On this day in 1776 (and not July 4th), the Continental Congress voted for independence from Great Britain.
The next day, in a letter to Abigail, John Adams rhapsodized:

The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.

Yes, we did eventually come to celebrate Independence Day with parades, bonfires and illuminations.
But we chose the 4^th of July (the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted and signed) rather than the 2^nd of July when the vote for independence was taken.

Here’s one way the difference might matter:

Choosing the 4^th made Jefferson the most significant figure in the story, since he wrote the Declaration.
If the 2^nd had caught on as the day to celebrate, it would have put Adams more at the center, since he was the more important oral advocate for independence.--Posted by Gail Heriot

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History for July 4

History for July 4 - On-This-Day.com
Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804, Stephen Foster 1826, Calvin Coolidge (U.S.) 1872 - 30th President of the United States

Rube Goldberg 1883, Mitch Miller 1911, Ann Landers 1918/Abigail Van Buren 1918

1776 - The amended Declaration of Independence, prepared by Thomas Jefferson, was approved and signed by John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress in America.

1802 - The U.S. Military Academy officially opened at West Point, NY.

1803 - The Louisiana Purchase was announced in newspapers. The property was purchased, by the U.S. from France, was for $15 million (or 3 cents an acre). The "Corps of Discovery," led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, began the exploration of the territory on May 14, 1804.

1817 - Construction began on the Erie Canal, to connect Lake Erie and the Hudson River.

1848 - In Washington, DC, the cornerstone for the Washington Monument was laid.

1960 - The 50-star U.S. flag made its debut in Philadelphia, PA.

1966 - U.S. President Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act, which went into effect the following year.

1976 - The U.S. celebrated its Bicentennial.

Tuesday, July 03, 2018

Supreme Court teaches the Resistance how government works

Supreme Court teaches the Resistance how government works:

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Presidents often try to stretch their powers. But this is very clearly not one of those cases. When Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act, it gave every president power that goes beyond what presidents can do on most mere domestic questions. The language in the law could not be any clearer than it is:

The way we were-----Gettysburg Soundtrack- Main Title

Boob-tube-----THE GRAY GHOST - 1957 - Tod Andrews - Civil War western TV show

The Toxic Race-Mongering of the Left | Klavan On The Culture

The Toxic Race-Mongering of the Left | Klavan On The Culture
"Imagine a world in which leftists, by some magic, were unable to accuse their political opponents of racism.

Racism, sexism, all of the various make-believe phobias — these charges were suddenly somehow off-limits during political discussion.
Instead, at all the leftist venues — The New York Times, the TV network news departments, CNN and the rest — the commentators had to accept that their political opponents were people of good will with the best interests of the country at heart.
They had to ask themselves — and even possibly ask actual conservatives — what it was about border security that seemed important to them, why social spending might be destructive, why Islam might be incompatible with western thought, why teachers' unions were impeding the rise of the poor and so on.
If that magical moment ever occurred, we might start to have an intelligent political debate in this country.
But don't hold your breath..."
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Maxine Waters is done with 'nice guy politics' | TheHill

Maxine Waters is done with 'nice guy politics' | TheHill:
"From the perspective of some House Democrats, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has the right message.
She’s just not always the best messenger.

The Los Angeles lawmaker’s early calls for President Trump’s impeachment and viral showdowns with administration officials have endeared Waters to the party’s young, liberal base.
And those stances have also garnered the respect of many House Democrats, who admire how Waters, 79, sticks to her political convictions.
"She is up-to-date, she is smart, she is authentic and she is not scared to express herself,” Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) told The Hill, adding that her constituents in Milwaukee often ask her if she knows Waters.
"She is transformative in terms of appealing to different generations of people.”
...Waters is aware that she sometimes pushes the envelope, according to a former aide who said the congresswoman thinks Democrats as a whole have engaged in "nice guy politics" for too long..."
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Page 203 of IG Report says Loretta Lynch-Bill Clinton tarmac meeting was planned via Secret Service, FBI Conservative News Today

Page 203 of IG Report says Loretta Lynch-Bill Clinton tarmac meeting was planned via Secret Service, FBI Conservative News Today:

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Stunning revelations from the IG report of DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz (an Obama appointee) suggests that the 2016 tarmac meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton was coordinated — contradicting their claims that the meeting was accidental and coincidental.

So sad. Your tax dollars down the drain-----Why Do We Celebrate the Fourth of July? With Will Witt

Fact Check: Did Obama Detain 90,000 Children At The Border?

Fact Check: Did Obama Detain 90,000 Children At The Border?
"This report was originally published by Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge

President Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale recently tweeted that “Over 90,000 kids were detained under Obama. And no one cared.”

What followed was a barrage of angry tweets and an attempt by AP prove the claim false by conflating two narratives; the first being that Trump is putting separated migrant children in prison-like conditions – which the left quickly abandoned after it was revealed that viral photographs depicting the caged migrant children actually happened under Obama.

...The “Fact Check”

Two days after Parscale’s tweet, AP published the article “NOT REAL NEWS: Obama didn’t separate 90,000 migrant families,” conflating the “separated families” narrative with the “children in cages” narrative – while pointing to a “conservative website” (which they don’t link to) as the source of the claim.

“The claim, published on a conservative website, was repeated on social media throughout the week as President Donald Trump faced criticism over his administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy” –AP

What website? Who said that? Parscale said detained, not separated.

The false claim appears to stem from a January 2016 Senate subcommittee report that investigated how the Department of Health and Human Services, under the Obama administration, placed thousands of unaccompanied children illegally entering the country.

The subcommittee report found that from October 2013 through 2015 the federal agency placed nearly 90,000 children with a sponsor, after they were detained at the border without a legal guardian. The majority of those sponsors, the report found, were a parent or legal guardian living in the country. –AP

Note how AP simply says that the 90,000 children were placed with a sponsor… Unfortunately, they’re missing a giant link in the chain; the detention centers the kids are placed in first.

Taking a look at the Senate subcommittee report AP references (page 8), since the thrust of the left’s outrage over Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” policy was originally poor migrant children being forced into cages…

First, we have the 90,000 under Obama figure – but there’s a footnote. Then the report notes that the majority of unaccompanied children over that two-year period were placed with a parent or a legal guardian.

Since the beginning of FY2014, HHS has placed almost 90,000 UACs [Unaccompanied Alien Child] with sponsors in the United States.⁽³¹⁾ According to HHS, it places the majority of those UACs with the child’s parent or legal guardian.⁽³²⁾

Now let’s look at that footnote (31) attached to the 90,000 figure – which directs us to an Office of Refugee Resettlement publication entitled: Unaccompanied Children Released to Sponsors by State..."
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