Kyle Farmer

Bourbon lover 🥃 & former ball coach - 🏈⚾️🥎🏃‍♂️

[Kyle Farmer @kylefarmer]

The one constant through the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again

But baseball has marked time. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again. -Field of Dreams

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Today in 1937, a 24 hour honor guard was posted for the first time at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.

It has been continuously guarded ever since.

[Kyle Farmer @kylefarmer]

"I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival . . . it ought to be solemnized with . . . bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other, from this day forward forevermore."

- John Adams, 7/3/76

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

Happy Independence Day to John Adams specifically! 🇺🇸

[Kyle Farmer @kylefarmer]

On this date in 1863, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain employed a little-used textbook military maneuver to hold the Union left flank during the Battle of Gettysburg. It’s not an overstatement to say that the bravery of Chamberlain’s 20th Maine Regiment saved the Union that day.

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

🇺🇸 July 2nd — The U.S.’s Almost Independence Day🇺🇸

During the American Revolution, the legal separation of the thirteen colonies from Great Britain in 1776 actually occurred on July 2, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that had been proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia.

The resolution declared the United States independent from Great Britain's rule. After voting for independence, Congress turned its attention to the Declaration of Independence, a statement explaining this decision.

One day earlier, John Adams had written to his wife Abigail:

“The second day of July 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.”

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

New Righties read the 14th amendment the way Old Lefties read the 2nd. “It can’t mean what is says because I really don’t want it to!”

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

Red state Americans turning their thermostats down to 66

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

Only two men signed all four of America’s great founding documents:
• The Continental Association (1774)
• The Declaration of Independence (1776)
• The Articles of Confederation (1777)
• The U.S. Constitution (1787)

Those men were Roger Sherman and Robert Morris.

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

My overarching thesis of this environment is that Trump blew his own political head off with high tariffs, & he & other right-populists have spent the subsequent 14 months trying frantically to frame somebody else for the killing.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

The 2nd Amendment never contemplated semiautomatic handguns.

[Andy McCarthy @AndrewCMcCarthy]

Amy Coney Barrett is a great justice - faithfully originalist and independent minded. When a future Dem president inevitably exploits today's lawlessness, she'll be remembered as the one who got immunity right. If you're of good faith, birthright citizenship is a tough issue.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

If your constitutional interpretation leads you to believe sustaining the constitutional status quo that has existed for more than a century will suddenly destroy America, your interpretation is demagogic boob-bait.

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

Man, Matt Walsh is furious at Barrett for voting to rule that men don't belong in women's sports.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

This is very important.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I love air conditioning so much, I use it in my convertible when driving with the top down.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

A lot of the energy spent savaging Barrett has been deployed by people who spent a year telling the rest of us to lay off the Nazis, white supremacists, and antisemites because they were on our side. Probably not a coincidence they attack the woman with adopted black children.

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

July 1, 1776 — The Continental Congress resumed debate on independence. John Adams passionately argued that Britain had already forced America into war, while John Dickinson warned the colonies were not yet prepared to stand alone.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Supreme Court upholds a century old interpretation of the 14th amendment. “They’ve destroyed America! There’s no saving us now! My panties shall never be unbunched again!”

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

The average age of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence was just 44 years old.

The youngest was Edward Rutledge (26).
The oldest was Benjamin Franklin (70).

America’s founding brought together both youthful ambition and decades of experience.