What Would My Father Say to America?

AND ON MY DEATHBED I SHALL CALL OUT 'AMERICA'!

'Happy' 250th, from your Wonkette!

The Voice of America

As Americans celebrate their nation's 250th birthday permit me to remember Alistair Cooke, the Englishman who for six decades explained the US to the world with colour, compassion, and humour

American to Foreigners: Don't Listen to the Naysayers Who Bash America

An American told us on the Fourth of July that if he were speaking to people who haven't been to America yet, he would tell them to not listen to the naysayers who bash the United States, rather come see the country for yourself.

The Lincoln Speech Every American Should Read Before America 250

The Lincoln Speech Every American Should Read Before America 250

TOM EATON | Bozell is right that policy choices expose governments ― like Washington’s

South Africa has frank conversations all the time, but can Bozell say the same about the US? writes Tom Eaton

What would you say to your Dad today if you could? The 19th Annual FARK Father's Day Thread [Hero]

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Young Washington Captures The Spirit Of America

Young Washington emphasizes the uniquely American character of the Father of Our Country, while honoring his 'wild, beautiful, dangerous, but free' life.

Trump Goes All In On America In 250th Birthday Speech: ‘Our Destiny Is Written By God!’

President Donald Trump made it clear in his Saturday remarks that he was all in on America as he touted American veterans and trashed communism on the nation’s 250th birthday. Hailing the United States as “the hope, the promise, the light, and the glory among all of the nations of the world,” Trump called on ...

My Dad Walked Out On Me and My Mom. Now He’s Back—and Asking For One of the World’s Biggest Favors.

How dare he, really.

The Birthplace of the United States

It was here the founders shaped the future of American government.

'He's from India': Man allegedly attacked by group of teens after they asked where he was from

“If I had said some other country, then I probably would have been safe.”

My Dad Walked Out on Me and My Mom. Now He’s Back—And Asking for One of the World’s Biggest Favors.

How dare he, really.

The Summer I Turned Patriot

Like many Europeans raised on a diet of American culture, I thought I understood the United States. My job as a camp counselor revealed why it is a nation worth loving, writes Josh Kaplan.

Soooo, What Does “French Fries” Mean on ‘Love Island USA’?

Merriam-Webster, get in here.

Hey, About That 'Death to America' Thing...

Hey, About That 'Death to America' Thing...

‘Young Washington’ screenwriter says film meant to humanize first president

Diederik Van Hoogstraten’s journey to U.S. citizenship taught him a great deal about America: That included a crash course in the United States’ first president, George Washington. So when he got the call to co-write a script based on that president’s formative years, he could have idealized the Founding Father. Instead, the screenwriter penned the []...Click to read more

Reward offered after pet lamb wearing blue collar stolen from paddock in Dwellingup

“If your loved one comes home from the mines tonight or from somewhere Boddington direction with a male lamb that’s super friendly, he’s mine”

Furkids Celebrate The Independence of US!

I’ve tried to tell our beloved Furkids that “US” actually stands for “United States”, but they look at me as though that’s just preposterous. In their words, “It’s about us, and you can’t take it away from us!” Of course it’s about them. This is their column after all. “Besides,” they continue, “while America’s Declaration

This should enrage every American…

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I'm Proud to Be an American

I'm Proud to Be an American

The Threat Is Backwards

Jeffrey Wernick There is a phrase that does a great deal of work in American political argument, and almost none of it honest. The phrase is American culture, invoked as something immigrants endanger and citizens defend. It is worth asking what the phrase means, because the moment you press it, the entire architecture of the []

Is This the Right Time to Be Celebrating America?

A-meh-rica at 250 My best friend was born on the Fourth of July. In recent years—some difficult years for the country—that has given me a level of plausible deniability. I still go to the beach and watch fireworks and down hot dogs like a sword swallower. But I’m not really celebrating America. I’m just celebrating [] The post Is This the Right Time to Be Celebrating America? first appeared on Washingtonian.

H.W. Brands’s ‘American Patriarch’ offers a fascinating look at George Washington’s military career

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, it only seems right to pay reverence to the gentleman farmer from Mount Vernon who helped make this nation great. This, of course, refers to the “father of his country,” George Washington. He was a highly respected and beloved general, who took a ragtag outfit and turned them into []

RiftTV CEO Elijah Schaffer rips SC ruling on birthright citizenship, targets H-1B children, ‘Little Pooja, little Panji’

Elijah Schaffer challenges the meaning of American identity, arguing that citizenship should extend beyond birth in the U.S.

America turns 250. Not everyone is celebrating

On this July Fourth, Americans ask: What does it mean to love a country that won't love you back?

Liberty or Force? John Quincy Adams on American Foreign Policy

John Quincy Adams’ 1821 Fourth of July address has had a long legacy. It has become a touchstone in debates about foreign policy to this day, thanks to Adams’ ringing assertion that America “goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.” Adams was the U.S. secretary of state at the time, and he would soon help President James Monroe...

Trump’s patriotism shines through with brutal attack against communism

Sky News host Danica De Giorgio reacts to United States President Donald Trump’s recent speech celebrating America’s 250th birthday. “Huge celebrations over in America at the weekend for the 250th anniversary,” Ms De Giorgio said. “I did note that President Donald Trump, he marked this occasion on the eve of the anniversary with quite a patriotic address at Mount Rushmore, declaring that the United States is the most exceptional nation ever to exist. “He’s vowed that it would never be a communist country … what version of history is being pushed by those, particularly on the left?”

Frederick Douglass’s Words Are More Relevant Than Ever on US’s 250th Birthday

In his powerful speech, “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?” Douglass spoke truth to power.

Six Years a Citizen, Already Hates America: Mehdi Hasan's Independence Day Meltdown

Six Years a Citizen, Already Hates America: Mehdi Hasan's Independence Day Meltdown

Trump Mount Rushmore speech addresses American 'breed of citizen' and a 'culture that built America'

President Donald Trump's speech before a crowd at Mount Rushmore ahead of the United States' 250th birthday spoke of a "breed of citizen" as well as discussed what Trump described as American culture. "This was the spirit that demanded freedom and this was the culture that built America and carved its heroes into Mount Rushmore," Trump said. "For generations, it was understood that the core of patriotic duty of every American was to pass this culture onto our children and to preserve the nation for centuries and centuries to come." Trump went onto to claim there have attempts in recent years to erode what he called "American exceptionalism."

It Took Outsiders to Remind Us What America Is

I’m proud to be an American. I write those words because, somewhere along the way, to be a proud American felt more like a confession than a point of pride. In recent years, many Americans have been made to feel ashamed for being, well, American. As we mark 250 years of independence this July, it’s time to

What Would Mark Twain Think of America at 250?

So what would Mark Twain—a man never at a loss for opinions—make of America on the 250th anniversary of its birth? He wouldn’t be surprised to be asked, or bashful about answering. As he once wrote in his notebook, “I am not an American. I am the American.” Arguably a bit vain, but essentially correct, []

A salute to America

By Marco Rubio Two hundred and fifty years ago today, in a brick hall in Philadelphia, our forefathers declared their independence from the most powerful empire on earth. They were not fools. They knew exactly what the words on that parchment would mean. They knew that in that moment, they were convicting themselves of treason in the eyes of their mother country – and that the penalty for treason was death. And so at the bottom of that document, beneath the soaring words about self-evident truths and the rights of man, they wrote one final sentence: “With a firm reliance The post A salute to America appeared first on Tirana Times.

George Stephanopoulos reflects on Greek heritage and family’s American journey

George Stephanopoulos, co-anchor of ABC's Good Morning America, reflected on his family's immigration story and his dual Greek-American identity as the United States marked its 250th anniversary.

After exploring family’s Holocaust roots, Jesse Eisenberg to receive Polish citizenship

The American actor, writer and director said he pursued citizenship to reconnect with his family’s heritage and to spend more of his career working in Central Europe.

Back with the Commanders, Dyami Brown vows it's a "new me"

Can Brown build on his strong 2024 postseason?

Senior U.S. official hails S. Korea as punching far above its weight in chip production, expertise

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Yonhap) -- A senior U.S. official on Thursday hailed South ...

To America, with Love: In Honor of Her 250th Birthday

To love America is not to deny its flaws but to cherish its capacity for renewal. Love, in this sense, demands honesty. It requires memory. And it carries responsibility. The post To America, with Love: In Honor of Her 250th Birthday first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

US senator and close Trump ally Lindsey Graham dies after 'brief and sudden illness'

Donald Trump paid tribute to the 71-year-old South Carolina senator, calling him a true American patriot who will be greatly missed.