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April 19: Freedom’s Birthday

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Americans revere a great number of dates that hold special significance for their culture and history. The Fourth of July, Veterans Day, the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. a quick glance through any calendar provides numerous other examples. Yet the one day of most importance, to both the nation and its culture, is the one that is conspicuously absent from any mention of notable historical dates. No parades honor the fallen; no speeches in Congress remind us of their deeds; no wreaths are laid; no moments of silence requested. On this sacred date no president will stand on hallowed ground to remind the American people of the important lessons of the nations founding: dedication to freedom and the example of that principle borne out in dramatic practice. The day Americans should mark on their calendar every year is April 19. On that day, 229 years ago, patriot militiamen from the New England countryside rose up against brute force, tyranny, and oppression. ...

Iraq: One Year Later

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Islamist terrorism, the eradication of which President Bush listed among his reasons for invading Iraq, has now made its way to Spain. Good show, Mr. Bush. When he says the world is safer one year after the war, one must wonder which world he means. The Spanish are being slandered by the La-Z-Boy warriors as appeasers because right after 200 of their fellow citizens were killed in train bombings, they threw out the ruling Popular Party, under whose leadership the country was dragged into Bush’s war, and elected the Socialist Party, which vows to remove Spanish troops from Iraq. (It’s a peculiar band of socialists, since their leader says he dislikes government intervention in the economy.) The American war party and its media boosters like to throw the word “appeaser” ...