@NickAdamsinUSA Over 65 and receiving social security should be able to work as much as they want without penalties. Instead of waiting until they reach the age government tells them they can.
Happy 250th birthday America. 🙌
You took the best of Britain and improved it immeasurably.
You are now a lone beacon in gloam.
Stay strong for us.
We need you more than ever.
God bless 🇺🇸
🇺🇸This 250th Independence Day, as families gather and fireworks fill the sky, pause with me for a moment on something most of us have never fully considered:
What kind of men were those 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, and what did they actually risk when they put pen to paper?
Consider the three from Georgia whose names appear on that document:
Button Gwinnett, a merchant and planter who had built significant commercial interests, signed knowing the British would treat his signature as an act of treason. He was dead within ten months, killed in a duel over wartime conduct. His signature remains one of the rarest and most valuable today precisely because of how quickly he paid the price.
George Walton, a rising lawyer and judge who understood firsthand how corrupt legal systems destroy liberty, was later wounded in battle against the British and held as a prisoner of war.
Lyman Hall, a physician and educator, recognized that liberty without a moral foundation collapses. The British later burned his properties in retaliation.
These were practical men with families, businesses, and reputations to lose. What strikes me every time I study them is this underappreciated truth: a small, determined group of citizens from different professions and walks of life, working together with shared conviction, can accomplish what empires and armies cannot. Their signatures were not symbolic. They shared a deliberate covenant that overturned centuries of accepted tyranny.
By asserting that rights are unalienable and come from God—not from kings or majorities—and that legitimate government rests solely on the consent of the governed, these men created the intellectual foundation for a constitutional republic that would later be defended on the battlefield by George Washington and the Continental Army, perfected in the constitutional framework advanced by James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and the broader founding generation, and preserved through the rule of law ever since. Few understand how radical that was in 1776, or how directly it produced the freest, most prosperous, and most dynamic civilization in human history.
We owe them a debt measured not just in gratitude, but in vigilance to American exceptionalism. The same debt extends to every American who has since worn the uniform and defended this inheritance. And we should never lose sight of the extraordinary privilege of being an American citizen: a sovereign individual whose rights precede government and whose voice, under law, can still shape the destiny of a nation.
It is in faithful defense of that same founding compact and with great pride that the team at America First Legal works each day.
This July 4, I encourage you to carve out real, intentional time with family and friends. Use it not only to celebrate, but to talk about what those men truly risked, what principles they embedded, and the obligation and vigilance those principles still demand of us. The even greater things ahead for America depend on how clearly we understand and remember, and how resolutely we act on, what came before us.
I put my heart into this one, & I hope you'll spare a few minutes of your day to listen.
This is "America, Stand Up."
The clips in the video are not mine; however, I did the best I could with what I had.
I hope you like/share it with those who might like it.
(@Justin_Gaethje)
@Heckncamper@LarryInMissouri Not all registered cars were allowed to participate. The count was over the amount of cars they reported. I’m assuming because the parade of cars would have taken hours longer ?.