TO AMERICANS INDEPENDENCE DAY THIS 4TH OF JULY RANKS AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HOLIDAYS FROM 58% OF ADULTS POLLED BY RASMUSSEN

Independence Day still ranks among the nation’s most important holidays for Americans, and many are choosing to stay close to home this holiday weekend.

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of American Adults consider the Fourth of July one of the nation’s most important holidays, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Only five percent (5%) look at the Fourth of July as one of the least important holidays, while 35% rate it somewhere in between.  (To see survey question wording, click here.)

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/holidays/june_2015/americans_are_staying_put_this_4th_of_july_weekend

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY THE BIRTH OF A GREAT NATION–TO DEBUNK THE LEFTIST AMONGST US

Happy Independence Day, or, as the left might call it this year, “Original Sin Saturday.” July 4^th is when we celebrate the birth of The United States. But, whereas you commemorate the inception of what Lincoln called “the last best hope of earth,” liberals lament that flawed people had the audacity to create a flawed nation. Then, that flawed nation had the bad taste to prosper!

It’s that left-wing understanding of America that’s behind the push to erase or blur our history. The purge of the Confederate flag is currently the noisiest, but by no means the only, prong of the attack from activists and academics and the media who love them.

Take for example, the secular liberal effort to erase the nation’s Christian foundation. Don’t believe me? Ask Huffington Post, Salon, Alternet, The New York Times or the angry atheist groups. The Constitution established no state religion and left it at that. To suggest that the Founders worked to create this nation in a secular vacuum uninformed by Judeo-Christian ideas and free of shared Christian assumptions about good and evil, responsibility and sin is an ahistorical farce.

But liberals are on a mission, and inconvenient facts are unwelcome. From the people on our money to the content of our textbooks and the interpretations of our founding documents, American leftists seek to obfuscate, distort and erase our history. Here are four of the ways.

- See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-philbin/2015/07/01/1776-and-all-four-ways-left-destroys-american-history

PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN THIS 4TH OF JULY

I’m proud to be an American because we have done something no other great nation in the history of the world has done – we have used our great power not to enslave others, but to enable them.

I am proud because America is exceptional for many reasons:  for our constitution, our melting pot culture, our classless society, and because we, from our earliest days, have been the world’s land of opportunity. But it’s more than just our unique history, or geography, or resources, or system of government. It’s more than our ethnic diversity, our melting pot culture, or the land of opportunity, or our constitution that enshrines individual liberty.

We are exceptional also because we have built into our national DNA the ability to reinvent ourselves both individually and as a society, socially as well as economically. 

 

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/06/30/why-im-proud-to-be-american.html?intcmp=sbox6_fnsalute

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION TO BE EMBRACED IN FREEDOM WAS FOR ALL AS BOTH BLACKS AND WHITES PARTICIPATED IN ITS BIRTH 239 YEARS AGO

There are aspects of the American Revolution that are neither well known nor appreciated. To be sure, the signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave and great men, as ex-slave, abolitionist and fiery orator Frederick Douglass acknowledged in his July 5, 1852, speech in Rochester, N.Y. But Douglass, noting slavery’s continued existence 76 years after the first Independence Day, advised the crowd: “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.”

“What, to the American slave,” asked Douglass, “is your Fourth of July?” Douglass said that the “rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me.”

Douglass’s denouncing the injustice of slavery in the midst of a celebration of liberty is now a storied event.

But less understood or appropriately recognized during most July 4 celebrations is that the American Revolution, although not fought on behalf of slaves, was not a whites-only undertaking.

The political freedom resulting from the war was earned on battlefields at Lexington and Concord, at the Battle of Bunker Hill and beyond, with the help of black soldiers, both free and enslaved, who fought with the Continental Army.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-american-revolution-was-not-a-whites-only-war/2015/07/03/347ebe5c-20cb-11e5-84d5-eb37ee8eaa61_story.html