https://barelyablog.com/independence-day-is-not-about-firecrackers-and-cookouts/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://barelyablog.com/independence-day-is-not-about-firecrackers-and-cookouts/comment-page-1/#comment-30968 Thu, 07 Jul 2022 13:33:06 +0000 https://barelyablog.com/?p=159733#comment-30968 Great works, a camel they do not resemble. A unifying idea does not come from diversity. Great ideas of good are recognized by similar minds of similar goodness and eventually a culture emerges. When a culture resembles a camel it has allowed contradictory ideas to purpose and function to become as worthy of consideration and debate as the unifying ideas. One idea is not as good as another.

]]> https://barelyablog.com/independence-day-is-not-about-firecrackers-and-cookouts/comment-page-1/#comment-30947 Mon, 04 Jul 2022 20:08:24 +0000 https://barelyablog.com/?p=159733#comment-30947 Happy Independence (Secession) Day!

]]> https://barelyablog.com/independence-day-is-not-about-firecrackers-and-cookouts/comment-page-1/#comment-30941 Mon, 04 Jul 2022 10:21:51 +0000 https://barelyablog.com/?p=159733#comment-30941 Little known Independence Day trivia: Jefferson, the Declaration’s author, died on the fiftieth anniversary of its signing. President John Adams also died that same day. President James Monroe died five years later on the 55th anniversary. So of the first five presidents, three of them died on Independence Day.

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