Brittle Parchment of Liberty

If you are going to sever ties to your Commonwealth through bloody struggle, it is considered polite to write down why. Nobody wants to get three years into a revolution only to realize the whole thing was a Three’s Company-esque misunderstanding. The Declaration of Independence was the laundry list of grievances stating America’s case for [...]

Free to Be You and Me

We hold these truths to be self-evident… When Thomas Jefferson first wrote those words, some 234 years ago, he believed, as I do, that there are some things we just know. We really can’t explain them or offer any kind of proof or evidence. But we know them just the same – we understand, beyond [...]

Celebrate Good Times, C’mon!

In the early days of the American Revolution, a ragtag bunch of militia men from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island took control of a couple of hills surrounding the city of Boston. Upon discovery of this, British troops launched an attack on the wayward colonists on June 17, 1775 and thus gave future [...]