For this Independence Day, the Muth family has declared its independence from…TENT CAMPING!
The kids are thrilled.
Gia is ecstatic.
I’m happy that they’re happy. ‘Tis the lot and joy of being a father and husband.
Now, don’t get the wrong idea. The picture can be deceiving. This is an old RV. 1996. With 137,000 miles on it. But it was driven by an older couple who took IMMACUTLATE care of it.
And happy Independence Day (not “Fourth of July”) to everyone.
Dr. Chuck Muth, PsD
Professor of Psephology (homeschooled)
Publisher / Irritator-in-Chief
Some Amazing Things You Maybe Didn’t Know about Independence Day
(Paul Nehlen) – One of the more regrettable failures of our modern-day public education system is the lack of intense focus on our absolutely amazing founding history.
So here are some tidbits from Kenneth C. Davis’ book “Don’t Know Much about History” you might not know about Independence Day…
At the Continental Congress in Philadelphia on June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee – a delegate from Virginia – proposed the creation of three committees, one of which was to be tasked with drawing up a document declaring the colonies’ independence from England.
Founding Fathers John Adams and Ben Franklin were immediately named to the committee, but it needed a southerner for “political balance.”
Adams choice? Thomas Jefferson from Virginia “because, as he admitted, Jefferson could write ten times better than he.”
Jefferson wrote the first draft. The committee made some edits. And forwarded the document to Congress for debate.
“Of course,” Davis wrote, “the delegates demanded changes, all of which Jefferson considered deplorable.”
The most debated, from the list of “injuries and usurpations” perpetrated by the King of Great Britain, “was Jefferson’s charge that the king was responsible for the slave trade.”
“The southern delegates,” Davis explains, “joined by northerners who were known to have profited from (slavery), deleted this section.”
The final version of the resolution was passed by Congress on July 2, 1776.
“On the evening of July 4, the Declaration of Independence, which explained the act of independence, was adopted,” Davis wrote. “At the signing, John Hancock reportedly urged unanimity. ‘There must be no pulling different ways. We must hang together,’ he said.”
To which Franklin famously replied…
“Yes, we must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
Thus, the American Revolution was officially launched.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
Following its adoption, Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, heralding “the most memorable epoch in the history of America.”
“I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival,” Adams wrote. “It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.”
And indeed it is. To this very day.
One more tidbit about this historical date…
“As he lay dying, Jefferson would ask what the date was, holding out, like John Adams, until July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration.”
That’s right. These two brilliant authors of our Declaration of Independence both passed away on the exact same day and exactly 50 years after the official declaration of independence was adopted.
An absolutely fascinating coincidence, if not a little eerie.
I wish you all a happy and safe Independence Day!
Mr. Nehlen is a successful business executive who has brought hundreds of jobs back to the United States from China, Mexico and Canada during his career. He’s a Republican candidate running for Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District
NEVADA NEWS & VIEWS
When I ran the Nevada News Bureau a few years ago, I had only one standing order: Never quote a political science professor unless they had actual, real-life campaign experience to draw from.
I was reminded of the wisdom of that rule while reading a Las Vegas Review-Journal story Saturday quoting UNLV poli-sci professor Dan Lee about voter registration numbers in Nevada.
“A big chunk of the recent nonpartisan registers might be ‘disaffected Republicans’ turned off to the party by the likes of Donald Trump, the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Lee said. ‘It’s certainly not a good thing for Trump,’ Lee said. ‘If he only mobilizes Republican voters, that’s not going to be enough.’”
What rock has this guy been living under?
The “disaffected Republicans” aren’t turned OFF by Donald Trump; they’re energized by him. The vast majority of “disaffected Republicans” who have left the GOP and registered non-partisan are primarily conservatives who are sick of the GOP establishment and have been for years.
That’s a GREAT thing for Trump, as he showed during the primaries. Trump was able to pull “disaffected Republicans,” independents and moderate Democrats like no Republican candidate since Ronald Reagan.
Which reminds us again that no one should pay any attention to the uninformed opinions of poli-sci professors.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“If Donald Trump wins this election, he is going to take the country in a new direction. He’s running an insurrection against the political, corporate, and media elites in Washington, D.C., and he’s running an insurrection against the Republican elites, and he has succeeded.” – Columnist Pat Buchanan