Hawkins: It’s Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness (in That Order)
When Thomas Jefferson listed the categorical rights of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” the order in which he presented the rights was crucial.
When Thomas Jefferson listed the categorical rights of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” the order in which he presented the rights was crucial.
The right to keep and bear arms is not something we as Americans possess because of government benevolence, but something with which our Creator endowed us.
The Founding Fathers, having signed the Declaration of Independence, committed their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to liberty.
As Judeo-Christian values come under attack and antisemitism rises worldwide, a recent event saw top faith leaders, former diplomats, and conservative scholars gather to promote traditional values that have long served as the foundation of Western civilization, in an effort to advance peace across the globe, while warning of the dangers of a nuclear-armed Iran led by radical Islamists.
Far-left Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) used Independence Day not to celebrate the ideals, risks, and sacrifices that led to the success of the great American experiment but to demand “reparations now.”
The story of the birth of our nation by Declaration in July 1776 is a story of disagreements, debates, compromises, and moral courage. It’s a story of a group of rebellious Englishmen who—despite their many differences—could agree on one thing: they wanted to live free.
More than half of Americans (55 percent) rank the Fourth of July as one of the nation’s “most important holidays” while six percent view it as one of the least important, a Rasmussen Reports survey found.
President Joe Biden claimed that the Supreme Court is straying away from what “the Constitution says, we hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women are created equal, endowed by their creator.”
Anne Holton, wife of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), denounced the Declaration of Independence and Constitution as “fundamental in enshrining slavery.”
Vice President Kamala Harris omitted the right to “life” when quoting from the Declaration of Independence during her pro-abortion remarks on the 50th anniversary of the now-overturned Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case.
Two hundred and forty-six years ago this week the fate of Washington’s army—in fact, the fate of the entire Revolution—lay on the muscled shoulders of the fishermen and sailors of the Marblehead Regiment.
A professor has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the University of Oregon after he was blocked on Twitter by university staffers for tweeting “all men are created equal” from the Declaration of Independence. The Institute for Free Speech said, “The First Amendment does not allow the government or its actors to ban individuals from public forums just because they disagree with the views those individuals express,” in a press release on the lawsuit.
President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson refused to say if she holds a position on whether individuals have natural rights.
Allowing noncitizens to vote is “legally sound,” a “smart policy,” “good for democracy,” and even “rooted in both American tradition and ideals,” according to a USA Today columnist.
Officials in New York City voted unanimously earlier this week to remove a 188-year-old statue of founding father Thomas Jefferson.
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) sent a letter on Thursday to the Archivist for the United States demanding the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) stop putting “Harmful Language Alert” on all searchable government documents on its website.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Monday introduced the “Love America Act,” designed to combat Critical Race Theory in classrooms, in part by prohibiting federal funding to schools where founding texts of the United States are taught as products of white supremacy and racism.
Many Twitter users were not pleased with NPR’s assessment of one of America’s most important founding documents.
Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) reluctantly repeated its tradition of staff reading the Declaration of Independence, this year framing its report to point out the “flaws” and racist elements of one of the most cherished U.S. documents.
The true story of America’s founding and the incredible sacrifice of those who signed the Declaration of Independence and the Americans who made its iconic words a reality is epic.
Two hundred and forty-five years ago, the fate of Washington’s army—in fact, the fate of the entire Revolution—lay on the muscled shoulders of the fishermen and sailors of the Marblehead Regiment.
President Joe Biden claimed Monday that the United States has “never” lived up to its founding principles.
Joe Biden said he is abolishing the Trump administration’s 1776 Commission, which, he stated, is “offensive” and “counterfactual.”
The 1776 Report is a thing of such beauty, dignity, and scholarship that it makes me wish I were American.
“America was an idea.” Former Vice President Joe Biden tweeted that statement Wednesday evening, describing the country he wishes to lead — in the past tense.
The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is a bulwark, a safe haven guarding Americans’ ability to be prepared to defend their lives and liberty as law and order crumbles in cities across America.
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday botched a quote from the Declaration of Independence during a speech in Texas.
“The leaders of the revolution are America’s homeschooling mothers,” said C. Bradley Thompson, professor of political science professor at Clemson University and author of America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It, expressing his
This Fourth of July, let’s look at the tactics used by the left to blacken the reputations of American heroes.
Facebook has apologized to a Texas newspaper after flagging a post containing text from the Declaration of Independence as “hate speech.”
On Tuesday’s edition of Breitbart News Tonight on SiriusXM, Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour recounted in dramatic detail “the story of the personalities and political tensions that led the Continental Congress ultimately to declare independence from the British crown.”
Facebook removed an excerpt from the U.S. Declaration of Independence, claiming the text violated the social network’s policies on “hate speech.”
Shaun King declared Frederick Douglass a “prophet” — but he was a prophet of redemption, not despair. And it was precisely because he believed in the Fourth of July that he believed in America’s future.
As we prepare to celebrate the independence and formation of our country this year on the 4th of July it is very important to myself and others who have fought for it to remind others of how blessed and fortunate we are to be Americans.
As various leftists talk of repealing the Second Amendment it must be noted that removing that amendment would neither remove the right to self-defense nor the guns Americans possess for that purpose.
President Donald Trump will host a summit with heads of state from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania at the White House on April 3.
Fifty-six men pledged “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor” 241 years ago.
During the 2017 NRA Annual Meetings in Atlanta, Daniel Defense president and CEO Marty Daniel affirmed his conviction that Second Amendment rights come from God, not from government.
Contents: The First Thanksgiving — The Pilgrims meet the Wampanoag Indians; The fur trade with Britain and Europe; King Philip’s war; Aftermath of King Philip’s War; The Great Awakening of the 1730-40s; The Revolutionary War — 1772-1782; Aftermath of the Revolutionary War
A Twitter user from GQ Magazine pointed out that the letters behind Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Wednesday’s debate between Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spelled out “rig it,” The Hill reported.