Friday News, Views, and Blues

Happy Independence Day! Here’s a salute to the freedoms that our founders fought and died for, and hopes that we can continue to fight in order to maintain them - even if that means fighting against a rogue administration bent on dissolving those very freedoms. It will take hard work and determination. From BradBlog: Perhaps next year, for the first time in five years, we won’t feel that we must post the following document on the Fourth of July. Perhaps. But once again this year, it seems necessary to remind readers that this country’s founders once described King George thusly: “A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” With a right to be free from tyranny and for a system of self-governance that derives its power from the consent of the... [read full story]