Celebrating our nation

Isn't easy nowadays, but it's still worth the effort.  To that end, I'll be scarce this week due to chewing up the time with a combination of paperwork for homeschool and prepping for next year ahead of enrollment, plus family gatherings, fireworks, concerts and all the fun that comes with the holiday.  

It's also worth noting that Ohio finally legalized private fireworks.  My sons, who sometimes appear to dream of giving up their life plans to become pyromaniacs, have dipped into their accounts to give their dad some extra gray hairs this year.  So with everything happening, it will be later in the week or so before I'm back.  

In the meantime, The American Catholic dropped some videos worth watching during this Independence Day.  One of them included the old Schoolhouse Rock American history clip about July 4th.  I decided to add that and a few others that, in their day, still represented the template for understanding our nation and its history.  

I added that last one because it includes, as much as anything, that part of American history most often thrown out in the attempt to compare the United States to Nazi Germany.  As has been said many times among the Left, and in not a few books my sons had in school, Manifest Destiny was nothing other than America's Lebensraum.  That's because today the Left admits to nothing positive brought to the wider world by the West.  Oddly, Christians increasingly appear to accept that perspective, seeing nothing of value brought to the world by the West - not its principles, advancements, values, or religion.  Which, to me, speaks volumes.