Happy INDEPENDENCE DAY! (corrected)

Cocaine at the White House and Humor Me

The White House was evacuated yesterday after an “unknown item” tested positive for cocaine hydrochloride. A hazmat team was called in to remove it.

I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you. I’m shocked that the mainstream media hadn’t covered this breaking news as of last night. 

This cartoon nearly drew itself. Let’s face it, the Biden family has certainly soiled Presidential Seal. Hunter’s history of sex, drugs and quid pro quo business makes this cocaine story no surprise at all.

Last month, Joe Biden hosted a Pride celebration on the White House grounds and the participants exposed themselves and recorded it. Now this. 

I’ve got a feeling Karine Jean Pierre will call this story Russian disinformation planted by the Trump campaign. Or she’ll refer all questions about it to the DOJ who will not be able to comment because of their ongoing investigation. You see how this works?

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FOUNDING FATHERS’ QUOTES

Thomas Jefferson, 1781

And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis: a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? — indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep for ever.

Benjamin Franklin, 1787

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

George Washington inaugural address, 1789:

“my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the Universe, who presides in the Councils of Nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes:”

THE COST OF FREEDOM

We take for granted the freedom we enjoy in America, but freedom isn’t free. It was purchased at a great price. Down through the centuries, we have honored our military and first responders for their sacrifice to keep us free.

But we need to remember the price paid by our Founding Fathers. The 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence had counted the cost and wrote in the last line:

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

As the signers stated in the Declaration, they had “a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence” (God). Their courage came from their relationship with God.

These men knew they were committing an act of treason against the Royal Crown. These men also knew the penalty — death by hanging. But freedom for future generations (that’s us) was worth it to them.

Benjamin Franklin famously told the other patriots, “Indeed we must all hang together, otherwise we shall most assuredly hang separately.”

Franklin was the only old man among the signers. Of the 56, eighteen were under 40 and 3 were in their 20s. Occupations: 24 were judges and lawyers, 11 were merchants, 9 were landowners and farmers and 12 were doctors, ministers and politicians. These men had more to lose than to personally gain from the Revolution.

For instance, Thomas Nelson, signer of Virginia was at the front commanding his troops at Yorktown. He ordered that America’s 70 heavy guns destroy the city of Yorktown where British General Charles Cornwallis’ army was. Lord Cornwallis and his staff moved their headquarters to Nelson’s palatial home. When Nelson realized that his men weren’t firing on them, he turned to his gunners and asked, “Why do you spare my home?” They replied, “Sir, out of respect for you.”

Nelson, cried, “Give me the cannon!” and he fired on his estate smashing it to pieces.

Nelson raised $2 million for the Revolutionary cause by pledging his own property. When the loans came due, a new peacetime Congress refused to give him an extension and Nelson’s property was forfeited. He was never reimbursed and died impoverished a few years later at the age of 50.

Have a blessed Independence Day.

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RIGHT LINKS

Townhall - Matt Veep: Under the new bill, offenders are "guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or by a fine of not more than $10,000."

Indiana Policy Review - Craig Ladwig: “…watching from afar the ethnic civil war in France this summer, it is clearly time to help…those with the resolve to protect our civilization, our liberty, our identity.”

John Kass News: On Independence Day, what would America’s Founders think of ‘China Joe’ Biden?

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