As America prepares to celebrate our 250th birthday, it is imperative that all Americans recall...
As America prepares to celebrate our 250th birthday, it is imperative that all Americans recall those things that made our nation unique. There are fundamental principles that formed the foundation that produced the greatest nation in the world. Those principles were laid out in our Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, and put into operation eleven years later when our Constitution was written and ratified. The Declaration stated succinctly the important principles that express what our Founding Fathers had in their hearts and minds: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the…Open
We will shortly celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, when 56 of...
We will shortly celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, when 56 of our nation’s founding fathers pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to help bring the American Revolution to a successful conclusion. The occasion of this momentous “birthday” of our great Republic brings me back to my own 18th birthday, when I took an Oath to preserve the country they helped establish –swearing to defend the U.S. Constitution from all its enemies, foreign and domestic– as a U.S. Marine. So help me God. When they declared our revolution, our founders were explicit that without God’s help they could never succeed. They recognized then that we were an incredibly blessed people residing on incredibly blessed…Open
As the United States celebrates its birthday, no less its quarter-millennium mark, I am driven...
As the United States celebrates its birthday, no less its quarter-millennium mark, I am driven to consider what this nation means from my perspective. And that perspective is shaped by the forces that shaped who I am: my Judaism, the journey of my mother from communist Czechoslovakia, and the mundane life of a young kid growing up in the suburbs of a blue-collar, East Coast American city. An American childhood The late 1960s, when I gained awareness of the society around me, was still a deeply patriotic world in the suburbs. Yes, we saw the images on TV of Vietnam, and we had our moments. I remember sitting on the porch of my parents’ home as a seven-year-old seeing the glow on the horizon as Baltimore burned in the 1968 riots.…Open
Casper O'Brien, 7, weighed 255 pounds at the time of his death, which was found to be caused by dilated cardiomyopathy with contributing conditions of morbid obesity.
Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus, extreme climbers who have illegally scaled buildings around the world, were arrested after getting engaged atop the Manhattan landmark.