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While most Americans are spending time this summer enjoying the sun in the comfort of their houses’ yards, the New York Times is out with a new exposé on how lawn care is problematic, once viewed through the lens of social justice.

It is increasingly popular to question America’s greatness and status as a “Shining City on a Hill,” but the Founding Fathers showed that patriotism is not a bad thing, and U.S. freedom should never be taken for granted.

This Fourth of July, let’s look at the tactics used by the left to blacken the reputations of American heroes.

The city of Charlottesville, Virginia, will no longer celebrate the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, the author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, founder of the University of Virginia, and third president of the United States.

Buttigieg attempted to walk back those Jefferson comments during a Fox News town hall, but could only do so by lying.

Appearing Friday on “The Hugh Hewitt Show,” 2020 Democrat White House contender and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said events bearing President Thomas Jefferson’s name should be renamed, calling it the “right thing to do.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo canceled a trip to Berlin this week and instead made an abrupt visit to Iraq.

On her first day as a new member of the United States House of Representatives, Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) called on her colleagues to begin taking steps towards impeaching President Trump.

Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar, (D-MN), both Muslim, used a Quran to be sworn into office on Thursday.

Once again, Virginia basketball is off to a roaring start. Cavaliers fans have grown accustomed to their squad piling on the victories ever since Tony Bennett took the helm in Charlottesville back in 2009.

Jeff Flake and Ben Sasse are NeverTrump, but they have always called for limited government and faithfully interpreting the Constitution.

It seems that all we see and read about these days are accusations, investigations, confrontations—and, as Brett Kavanaugh put it, “character assassinations.”   

Houston police chief Art Acevedo used a May 18 Facebook post to call for followers to share their views on the Second Amendment while making clear that he has yet to receive supernatural instruction confirming gun rights come from God.

The government of Cuba released Daniel Llorente, an independent dissident, from a notorious mental hospital where he was detained for more than a year after being diagnosed with “believing in God.” Llorente was arrested after interrupting the 2017 May Day parade in Havana, waving an American flag and demanding freedom for Cuba.

President Donald Trump took the podium at the NRA Leadership Forum amid massive applause, thanked NRA leadership and the “American patriots of the NRA,” then launched into a speech re-affirming that our natural rights originate in God.

Students from 300 schools have pledged to walk out of class May 2 in support of a pro-gun “Stand for the Second” event.

A statue of Thomas Jefferson was vandalized on the campus of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia, with graffiti calling him a “racist” and “rapist.”

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.

Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) reportedly took time during a Huntington, New York, speech to suggest that people should take up arms against President Trump.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced legislation Thursday to lower the legal minimum age for handgun purchases to 18.

The rights enshrined in the Second Amendment would recover their fullest expression to date via national reciprocity.

“Because you don’t like history, doesn’t mean that you can erase it and pretend that it didn’t happen,” Sanders said.

On October 17 Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) said having firearms and being armed is “part of the fabric of our nation.”

A statue of Christopher Columbus was vandalized in Chicago’s Little Italy neighborhood on Columbus Day.

A group of protesters toting “Black Lives Matter” signs covered up a statue of Thomas Jefferson at University of Virginia Tuesday night in a black shroud following violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month.

Despite the media and their Democratic counterparts working full speed to spin the lie that threats of political violence are on the rise in a polarized Trump era – with the Confederate monuments, they claim, serving as an “obvious flashpoint” – the events that took place in Charlottesville on August 12, and what President Trump said or didn’t say in the days after, did not lead to this.

Despite America’s official status as a secular nation without an established national religion, the constitution of every U.S. state makes reference to the divinity, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center.

The Los Angeles Times says gun control is the proper response to the death that resulted from Charlottesville car attack.

Almost nine-out-of-10 Americans oppose the erasure of George Washington’s and Thomas Jefferson’s statues and names from public places, says a poll from Rasmussen Reports.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” CNN Political Commentator Angela Rye argued that statues of slave owners, whether they’re of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, or Robert E. Lee should come down.

Actor Leslie Odom Jr. says public statues should be erected to “inspire us,” to “teach us,” and to “give us hope,” but if they no longer do so, communities can decide that they don’t want them anymore — even when it comes to statues of America’s Founding Fathers.

In a speech given to the American people on July 7, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln marked the Union’s victory on July 4 by thanking God — “Almighty Ruler of Events” — for not coincidentally providing the victory on America’s birthday.

The media is upset this weekend that President Donald Trump canceled the “White House Muslim Iftar Dinner tradition started by Thomas Jefferson.” But the media is wrong in every respect. Thomas Jefferson never held any Iftar dinner and only three out of 45 presidents ever hosted one, so there is no such “tradition” to cancel.

Americans are certainly tolerant enough to accept law-abiding and tolerant Muslim communities into the fabric of American social and political life without being taught lies about the role Islam played in American history, or being made to feel that Islam’s claims on this continent precede anyone else’s.

National reciprocity for concealed carry is really about one thing: bearing the arms we keep.

When declaring independence from King George III’s tyrannical rule, Thomas Jefferson wrote that men are born with God-given, “unalienable rights,” and the government’s duty is to protect those rights.