Rediscovering America

  July 4, 1776 and 2022: The Declaration Independence then and now By Scott S. Powell       Most Americans celebrating the July 4 th holiday today don’t fully realize that it was the power of ideas in the Declaration Independence that was the critical enabling factor for the Americans to win the War of Independence. Compared to the British professional military, the American colonial army was simply no match—being undermanned, underfunded, underequipped, inexperienced, and undertrained. At the outset of the war, the British Royal Navy had 270 warships deployed in American waters, while the Continental Navy had seven ships.       On July 4, 1776, in what is now Manhattan, New York, General George Washington was preparing for battle. He had no idea that a Declaration of Independence was being released in Philadelphia that day, as he pondered the sobering reality of a continuous stream of British ships coming through the Narrows and anchoring off Staten Island in New York Harbor. A month

                                             Citizen Awareness and Concerted Action is Key to America’s Survival by Scott S. Powell      The United States is dying a death by its own present government that is inflicting a thousand cuts on its citizenry. On every front, what people see is a government against the people. And world disaster may be closer now than ever before.       Cities coast to coast are experiencing record crime because of Democrat policies of defunding the police and lax law enforcement—an effort aided by billionaire George Soros who funds the campaigns of progressive district attorney candidates in select, often crime-ridden cities across the country. The Biden open boarder policy contributes significantly to this problem by having catalyzed a record surge in illegal immigrants—two million in 2021—which include an unprecedented influx of human and drug trafficking criminals. Biden’s opening salvo in reducing the production of oil and gas leading to the infl