“Old stories get retold with the endings sanded off. Old holidays get re-branded and merchandised. The old canon becomes an object of suspicion instead of an object of love. Meanwhile the mass migration into every Western capital changes the demographic ground under the story at the same rate the story is being rewritten above it. Two pressures, same press, same output — a population that no longer has a coherent sense of where it came from and therefore no coherent basis on which to object to where it is being taken.”
— Jan Wellmann — 7/11/26
Archive for July, 2026
Friday, July 10th, 2026
J. A. Fulton
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my Team Manz mate
has crossed the finish line
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The 3rd of July ~ 250 years later
Friday, July 3rd, 2026“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”
John Adams reportedly thought that today, the 3rd, should have been the true observance, since it more properly fit the signers’ act, with the 4th having been the public disclosure. It bears keeping in mind that tomorrow we also observe the bicentennial of the death of Adams and Jefferson, who both passed on the same day, July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration.
Of course they had flaws, but we can never learn too much about these great revolutionaries, who, perhaps more than anyone of their time, helped articulate for posterity the American heart and mind. It is now our job to preserve for the future the true principles of what it means to live free under God.
I finally finished the McCullough biography. The new Metaxas book is a holiday present from Dana — toward the noble cause of getting my knowledge past being merely “dangerous.”
