“When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.” ~ Bernard Crick.

Jet skis really are the gnats and mosquitoes of maritime civility and order.

RT @louisianaspara: Great Blue Heron

I’ve always said that if I was president England would pay for our Independence Day celebrations.

It's been a long time since I've read Willie Morris's "North Toward Home" but he has a whole section or chapter on why many residents of Vicksburg / Yazoo City don't celebrate the 4th of July when he was a kid. Morris's stories will have you rolling on the floor.

RT @WSJopinion: Americans love their states. It reflects something deeper: the abiding truth that our identity and self-government began no….

"The Americans demanded liberty simply and purely as a right." . —Lord Acton #July4.

Thank you @WSJopinion for publishing my Independence Day piece. "When the Declaration was signed in 1776, it marked 13 distinct rebellions across separate colonies.". #July4th.

RT @CourtAnne1225: Blows my mind we are in 2025 and people still don’t know the difference between lose and loose.

This is what I voted for.

I love the dopamine hit from a great American history book.

"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." . —Light Horse Harry Lee on Washington.

It’s interesting that his contemporaries all saw him as the person who could best summarize the 13 distinct rebellions in the colonies, providing them with a common voice.

Look at the morons trashing Jefferson below. Even many conservatives trash Jefferson for his many contradictions and wrong beliefs about Christianity. But Jefferson embodies what free people look like. And he’s the most prolific synthesizer of the American mind and rebellion.

Hamilton tees up the essential question in Federalist 1:. “…whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.”.

History is lived before it can be written. Finally pulled this book from my shelf. Don’t really know what to say but we should see and remember what these guys went through so much more than we do. #Vietnamwar #Tetoffensive

“I’ll flip tables if I have to. My preacher told me it’s okay. Jesus flipped tables,” she says. @TexasMonthly .

RT @AlbertoMiguelF5: Twenty years ago today, we lost this great American.

The warning was "t-o-r-t-u-r-e." Because that's what the communists do. Admiral Denton is one of America's greatest heroes.

"But if you can, if you are able to give them actual assistance, let it not be wanting.".