by Ray Newman, radio and television commentator, attorney, educator, author

Thursday, July 4, 2013

HAPPY JULY 4TH!


It is July 4th.  The nation's day of origination.

The Founders first declared our core principles:  we are all equal, we are a nation of independent, sovereign beings.  They then listed the egregious acts against them by the king.  Today, they would list the oppressive acts of the President:

    He has repeatedly exceeded his Constitutional authority; he has refused to enforce existing border security laws in violation of his oath of office;  he has burdened future generations with $17 trillion of debt, $!00 trillion of unfunded liabilities;  he failed to respond to the pleas for help by Americans he had sent to Benghazi, and he lied to us about it as he has lied to us about other things;  he inaugurated the unConstitutional surveillance of the American people; he interfered with the free election process;  he has invited and hosted terrorists in the White House;  he has repeatedly announced his desire to transform America from its glorious founding past.

The Founders declared our independence.  What shall we declare? 

Christopher Houston Carson (1809-68), nicknamed Kit, was born in Kentucky,  moved to Missouri, and left home at age 14 to became a mountain man, fur trapper, and frontiersman.  He pioneered the way West, to Santa Fe, Sierra Nevada, across the Continental Divide, to California, and along the Oregon Trail.  He led a number of expeditions by famed explorer, John C. Fremont.
Carson was described as intrepid, just and resourceful.  He fought some Indians and traded peacefully with others.  Though he could neither read nor write English, he was fluent in a number of Indian languages and married Indian women.  His family intermarried with the family of Daniel Boone.  During the Civil War, he fought on the side of the North as a general.


On July 4th, I remember Kit Carson and others who helped forge the spirit of young America.
 
  

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