by Vince | Jul 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Although the first person killed in the American Revolution was a black man with Native American blood – Crispus Attucks – the reality is every man who signed the Declaration of Independence and was involved with the crafting of the Constitution was white. Simply...
by James Raider | Nov 21, 2021 | American Exceptionalism, Anti-Americanism, Constitution, Economy, tech giants, Uncategorized
On August 2, 1776, in the hushed silence pervading Independence Hall’s Assembly Room, in Philadelphia, fifty six Congress members signed The Declaration of Independence. Some signed furtively, some with aplomb, like the first signer John Hancock, President of The...
by Vince | Jul 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
In 1776 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence and thus began a war with Britain. When the war was concluded in 1783 American casualties would number 25,000 dead and 25,000 wounded. Those 50,000 casualties paid the price so that a new nation, founded on the...
by Vince | Jul 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Forty years ago there was a great show on NBC called Hill Street Blues. It was an early player in the gritty police drama genre, a-la The Wire or Bosch. The ensemble show was led by Daniel J. Travanti playing Capt. Frank Furillo and his love interest, the stunning...
by Vince | Jan 3, 2021 | 2020 Election, Constitution, Donald Trump, independence, Joe Biden, Politics
In America, January 3rd, 2021 In this, the Declaration of the seventy-five million Americans who sought to have their votes count, who sought to be governed by the United States Constitution, who sought to live free in a nation of laws, we borrow from the words...
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