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A member of China’s legislature, the National People’s Congress, has proposed banning individuals from holding their hearts with their hands during the playing of the national anthem, suggesting the gesture is too “American” for Chinese patriots.

Islam is a totalitarian ideology, not a religion, and therefore a Dutch constitutional commitment to freedom of religion shouldn’t apply to it, Geert Wilders has said.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued that “Donald Trump is not a patriot, because a true patriot would say to Russia, ‘Look, even though you’re helping me, that’s not the way we win elections here.’”

English patriotism is on the rise, with increasing numbers of people identifying as solely English rather than British, a survey has found.

A London shopkeeper has been branded a “racist” merely for opening a shop celebrating all things British.

Actor, singer, and Breitbart News contributor Robert Davi dropped in on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily for what SiriusXM host Alex Marlow described as a “victory lap” after Donald Trump’s election win.

Meet Joe Everson. Joe likes to make every other national anthem singer look incredibly lazy. How does he do this? He does it by not just singing America’s anthem, but by also painting a portrait of one of America’s greatest moments.

Even as the NFL turns a blind eye to the lengthening list of players protesting America by refusing to stand for the national anthem, the league has decided to crack down on a player who announced his intention to wear cleats to memorialize the vicious terror attacks on September 11, 2001. Now a police union is vowing to pay the player’s NFL fine if he’ll wear them despite the league’s punishment.

No event in the British summer calendar is more shamelessly jingoistic than the Last Night of the Proms.

Even as the national media initially tried its best to ignore 49ers player Colin Kaepernick refusing to stand for the National Anthem during a Friday game last week, fans had other ideas on how to react.

Ross Douthat of the New York Times has admitted that Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton passed up the opportunity to reach out to “#NeverTrump” conservatives in her convention speech, offering them “nothing” to entice them to switch.

Democrats put on a show of patriotism at election time, but they share the broader left’s belief that America is flawed, that it is the problem in the world rather than the solution. They are waving the flag at Trump because they have run out of ideas.

Maybe even more than Christmas, the 4th of July might be America’s favorite holiday.

Academy Award winning actor Matthew McConaughey says his latest movie, Free State of Jones, a Civil War epic, has made him “honored” to be an American.

A row has broken out among Women’s Institute (WI) members over “jingoistic” performances of “Rule Britannia” and “Land of Hope and Glory”. A second generation immigrant condemned the WI event, where British Union flags were flown, as “like being at a

Former White House Director of Economic Policy Todd Buchholz appeared on Monday morning’s edition of Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon to discuss his new book, The Price of Prosperity: Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them.

Former British prime minister Gordon Brown said Thursday he was setting out a “patriotic” case for Britain to remain in the EU, in his first intervention on the looming referendum. Brown said it would be a “tragedy” if the campaign

On Monday’s broadcast of Sean Hannity’s radio show, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan laid out what he saw as the winning ingredients of Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). According to Buchanan, it’s not the traditional planks

The most basic, primitive honor a nation owes to its dead is to fight to defend itself—to defeat the enemy and win. And yet the West won’t.

Arizona Republican Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake have produced a report criticizing the Defense Department for spending $6.8 million on “paid patriotism” at sporting events since 2012.

Leftwing filmmaker Michael Moore refused to remove his hat during the patriotic singing of “God Bless America” at the World Series.

School officials forced a Northern California middle school student to turn his patriotic American flag T-shirt inside out because it was “gang related,” a violation of the dress code, and a possible safety risk.

An employee for a Cincinnati, Ohio, area minor league baseball team claims that he was fired for putting a halt to his work when the National Anthem began playing.

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (Reuters) — Fourth of July holidaymakers ignored a call to boycott Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park, known as the “Confederate Rushmore,” over its display of the contentious Confederate flag.

Though the very phrase “American Exceptionalism” is often mocked as simple-minded flag waving, there are concrete reasons that the American civilization is unique. The United States has a special place in world history. Despite the bumps, bruises, and outright contradictions that the country has muddled through in its very short existence, Americans can take pride in its numerous accomplishments, actions, and principles throughout the last two centuries.

A car dealer in West Palm Beach, Florida, is defiant in the face of threats from city officials to fine him for placing American flag banners on his car lot in violation, they say, of a city ordinance.

A new WalletHub study released just ahead of the Independence Day holiday weekend finds that New York ranks as the worst among the bottom ten least patriotic states.

Last year, Ohio was shocked to learn that residents somehow lost their right to fly Old Glory if they were merely renting a house or apartment. But now, the Ohio House of Representatives has moved to remedy that problem by passing a law allowing renters to fly the American flag at their homes.

News of a vote by the governing student body at the University of California Irvine to ban the American flag from their lobby spread quickly this past week, ultimately making its way to California’s State Capitol in Sacramento.