Rox

When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw

[Rox @roxbox40]

@WarPath2pt0

[DallasAWillard @DallasAWillard]

“How did [Jesus] teach them? He taught them in parables. He taught them in paradoxes.
He taught them in ways which would allow them to have something which they could keep working on without getting into a confrontational struggle.”

From The Dallas Willard Podcast: 89. The Beatitudes as Gospel. The MANNER of Jesus' Teaching,
https://t.co/ykEVHwUYrP

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Whenever I vowed to arrest bad guys, the pushback was always "you can't do that! There's no room in the jails!"

Communists close the jails, then they can use the "not enough jails" excuse to never enforce the law, as your city erodes.

See their little commie magic trick?

This is how you sneakily eliminate the laws that hold society together...you don't need legislature, you don't need to erase the laws, you just render them moot by making it practically impossible to ever enforce.

[Jason Miyares @JasonMiyaresVA]

@CamEdwards I did indeed, one of my fav characters from the Revolution, you can find it here! https://t.co/UkrR2RXulS

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

Ahh, interesting. We really should have thought of that before now.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

@PixelPusher4 Yet, curiously, we have some of the lowest gas prices in the world.

Because capitalism works and is based on supply and demand.

Imbecile.

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

The entire "Elon did a genocide" is a set up for the next democrat president and DOJ to prosecute him. It's all this is.

[Michael Duncan @MichaelDuncan]

It’d be great if the rest of the country got to experience Team USA.

They’re blasting Country Roads, but all the games have been in California and Seattle.

[roaring goober @roaring_goober]

@ayoair We know. You’re Muslim. You’re anti American

We’re trying hard to give you the gift of going back home

[Freedom 250 @Freedom250]

👀 LOOK UP, DC!

If you’re at the Great American State Fair today, keep your eyes on the sky! The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will be overhead for a practice run beginning at 11:45 AM for approximately 15 minutes.

Don’t be alarmed by the sound, you might just catch an incredible glimpse of these iconic jets in action! 🇺🇸

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

This is day 183 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE America Act.

It’s been 6 months.

[Rick Jackson @RickJacksonGA]

If Mamdani does it in New York, you can bet Keisha would do it in Georgia.

When I'm governor, we aren't going to force Georgians to set their A/C to 78 in the middle of a heat wave.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

John Adams, writing to Abigail, about the Continental Congress' vote in favor of independence on July 2, 1776:

"The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, 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 Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. -- I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. -- Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not."

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this day in 1776, the United States was actually born. Not July 4. July 2. That's the day the Continental Congress voted to break from Britain, and John Adams was so certain of it that he predicted July 2 would be the great American holiday forever. He nailed everything except the date.

The vote came down to the wire, and one man had to ride through the night to save it. Delaware's delegation was split, one for independence, one against, which meant the colony's vote canceled itself out. The tie-breaker, Caesar Rodney, was 80 miles away in Delaware. He got word that he was needed and rode all night through a summer thunderstorm, sick and in pain, boots and spurs still on, and made it into Philadelphia just in time to cast Delaware's vote for independence.

The other holdouts fell into place too. In Pennsylvania, the men most opposed, including John Dickinson, deliberately stayed away from the chamber so their colony could swing to yes. South Carolina came around for the sake of a united front. When the roll was called, twelve colonies voted for independence and not a single one voted against. New York simply abstained, waiting on permission from home.

And so, on July 2, 1776, it was done. The colonies had legally, officially declared themselves free. The next day Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that this day "will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival," with "pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations." Fireworks and all. He was describing the Fourth of July two days early.

So why do we celebrate the 4th? Because that's the day Congress approved the final wording of the document explaining the decision, the Declaration of Independence. The vote to be free happened on the 2nd. The paperwork got finished on the 4th, and history remembered the paperwork.

The country was actually born in a rainstorm and a roll call on July 2, thanks in part to one sick man who refused to let a tie decide the fate of a nation.

[Comfortably Smug @ComfortablySmug]

Unemployment rate in June falls to 1-year low as US economy adds 57K jobs

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

BTW, before the discovery of North Sea oil, Norway was Western Europe's poorest nation, a socialist state dependent on selling dried cod to Italy.

It is now Europe's 4th wealthiest nation, and that change happened virtually overnight upon the discovery of North Sea oil.

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

All SCOTUS did was rule that her son can play on the boys team. Not the girls team.

[Cam Edwards @CamEdwards]

If they were really weapons of war, why didn't @SalimForVA try to ban possession too? Why are police exempt from the ban? And why doesn't our military use them?

I also love how he brings up the 4th Ct without mentioning that SCOTUS is addressing semi-auto bans next term.

[Jimmy’s Famous Seafood @JimmysSeafood]

🎸 🦀 A match made in heaven! We are absolutely THRILLED to team with @98Rock! The ultimate winner will be YOU, the fans! See you at @TheTailGOAT!🫵

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

"I lost an election and the constitutional mechanism for how I lost that election should be abolished because of it."

They will never get over 2016. Ever.

[The Daily Signal @DailySignal]

Victor Davis Hanson’s Letter to America on Its 250th Birthday

With America's 250th birthday around the corner, Victor Davis Hanson and Bradley Devlin discuss what must be done to keep America alive for the next 250 years.

WATCH NOW: Sacred Honor: The Declaration That Defines a Nation

Premieres TONIGHT, July 2, at 8:30pm ET

👉 https://t.co/M8TRVKw2dm

@bradleydevlin @VDHanson