When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

On June 12, 1775, the Second Continental Congress set aside July 20, 1775 as a National Day of public humiliation, fasting, and prayer throughout the Colonies. About a year later, we were a free and Independent nation.

We’re about due for a great new Tea Party song. The have been some excellent ones over the past year or so by Lloyd Marcus and Due South, but here is a new one by Jeremy Hoop, and it rocks, too.

Glenn Beck continued his “Founders Friday” series, this time with “Women of the American Revolution.” As guests, he had once again author David Barton of Wallbuilders, and Jane Hampton Cook author of Battlefields And Blessings and The Faith of America’s First Ladies. They began with a discussion of women’s suffrage and the right of women to vote. Most people do not know that many women could vote before and during the Revolution.

This would help explain at least 26% of the people who voted for Obama. According to a Marist poll, 26 percent of Americans are a bit confused about why exactly this weekend is a cause for celebration: they don’t know which country the United States won its independence from.

The fact that there exists a transactional, quid pro quo relationship between Washington’s newsmakers and the media cohort that covers them is hardly surprising, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a cause for concern. Journalism, by definition, is a profession founded upon a dedication to the pursuit of truth on behalf of the public. If the “media heavies” in Washington are filtering information through a sieve of self-interest, then how much trust should the American people place in the hallowed Fourth Estate?

A study done for the NBCC by CRA International that estimates job losses to the American economy from “clean energy” initiatives – cap and trade bills passed by the House and Senate – at about 2.5 million jobs. The global warming nightmare is a warm fuzzy dream for those that want even more major government interference in our private lives.

In addition to the fundamental injustice of socialist wealth redistribution, there are practical and fiscal responsibility problems that come with the welfare state. Those became evident in this fresh report of welfare recipients spending millions of taxpayer-funded charity dollars in casinos and strip joints.

Some interesting truths about the unconstitutional health care bill passed by congress earlier this year–the one facing a legal challenge from dozens of states–are coming to light. These truths can also be found in the “I told you so” basket of things about which conservatives warned, and the illustrate the hypocrisy of big government.

Andrew Klavan is here to help those of you who temporarily lost your sanity and voted for Barack Obama in 2008. No, we’re not talking about you Marxists who actually knew and understood what he stands for, but rather those of you who woke up to realize what a terrible mistake you made. There is hope–real hope. There is a therapy that can help, but you should read the warning label first.

President Obama made this statement about Arizona’s illegal immigration law, which mirrors federal law: And it’s not just that the law Arizona passed is divisive, although it has fanned the flames of an already contentious debate, laws like Arizona’s put huge pressures on local law enforcement to enforce rules that ultimately are unenforceable. It puts pressure on already hard-strapped state and local budgets. Here, a helpful translation of Obama’s comments is provided.

It must be nice to be a liberal, where you have friends in the “mainstream” media, the education system and elsewhere to help you rewrite and whitewash inconvenient things about your past and present. They’re trying to do it again in the passing of Senator Robert Byrd (D-VA), minimizing his past membership in the KKK.

With Congress’ strong-armed passage of the unconstitutional and very unpopular health care reform bill, the radical left is puffed up to a frenzy with the desire to see their America-killing policies enacted. The Democratic Socialists of America’s plan to use “Obamacare” to extinguish private-sector insurance companies, among other diabolical schemes.

Liberals in America have a definition of justice which says, “Stick it to the rich guy.” But America, and that which it was founded upon, have a different definition of justice.

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have taken to referring to “freedom of worship” rather than the most common “freedom of religion” phrase in connection with the inalienable right for human beings to exercise whatever religious faith they choose. Christians should be on their guard, because these two phrases are not the same thing.

Many Christians in America have been wondering, at the rate our dominant culture is growing more hostile toward Christianity, how long it will be until all public expression of the Christian faith will be outlawed. We now have another indicator that it’s on the horizon.

I know many of you across America have been struggling with who to vote for in the 2010 election in November. In order to be helpful, someone has put together 11 reasons to vote for Democrats this year. They are compelling, and will likely convince many of just how they should vote.