Fireworks, flyovers and a 'really long' Trump speech ahead as US celebrates 250th

The celebrations in the US capital will feature 850,000 fireworks, a "really long" speech from the president and scorching temperatures.

What Getting Drunk With Alzheimer’s Patients Teaches Us About America on Her 250th Birthday

Weekend Plans With All-American Swimmer Riley Gaines

Weekend Plans is our exclusive lifestyle feature where we highlight the real off-duty routines of the most exciting people in culture.  This weekend, 12-time All-American and SEC champion swimmer Riley Gaines sits down with The Daily Wire to chat about life on her Nashville flower farm, how her daughter Margot shifted her purpose, what she’s ...

Pope Leo Uses America’s 250th Anniversary to Push Pro-Migration Message While Accepting Liberty Medal — Again Takes Aim at Trump-Era Immigration Policies

Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff from Chicago, was awarded the Liberty Medal by the National Constitution Center on Friday for his “lifelong work promoting religious liberty and freedom of conscience,” ideals the Center tied directly to the First Amendment and the Founding Fathers. The post Pope Leo Uses America’s 250th Anniversary to Push Pro-Migration Message While Accepting Liberty Medal — Again Takes Aim at Trump-Era Immigration Policies appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Happy 250th Birthday America

Our Independence Day! As dawn rises the next chapter begins…. Happy Birthday America! Some will say she is not perfect; they are wrong.  It is within our imperfections that she remains uniquely perfect. Heavenly Father, breathe Your spirit into our land.  We beg You to fertilize every seed of right, moral and appropriate pride to […] The post Happy 250th Birthday America appeared first on The Last Refuge.

American patriotism and the US-Israel relationship

In the summer of 1776, with the ink barely dry on the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress gave its founders a challenging assignment: design a seal for the nation they had just summoned into being.  Benjamin Franklin imagined Moses standing at the Red Sea, his hand raised as the waters swallowed Pharaoh’s army. Thomas […]

Writings on the Declaration of Independence and the Meaning of the American Revolution

Links to some of my previous writings on these topics, which remain relevant on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration.

A happy 250th birthday letter to America from President Donald Trump

"We are Americans. We never give in, we never give up, and our country is only going to get better than ever before," President Trump writes.