Talkback Friday 3 July 2015
Chuck Wilder Noon - 2 PM PDST
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Todays program is a repeat broadcast "Best of Talkback"
Selwyn Duke is a writer, columnist and public speaker. His articles can be found at numerous web sites including The New American.com, Canada Free Press.com and American Thinker.com." His latest including: Supreme Court Rubber Stamps Same-sex “Marriage” — Time for Nullification" (www.selwynduke.com/)
Alex Newman, a regular contributor to The New American, Alex is the co-author of the book
Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools To Destroy America's Children. He earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Florida. Alex has been working for TNA as a freelance journalist and also owns a consulting firm. His frequent topics include economics, education, finance, banking, business and politics. Alex grew up in Latin America, Europe, and Africa, giving him a unique insight into world events."Discussing the Book Crimes of the Educators which he co wrote with Samuel L. Blumenfeld author of eight
books on education, including: Is Public Education Necessary? NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education, The Whole Language/OBE Fraud, and Homeschooling: A Parent's Guide to Teaching Children." (www.superstore.wnd.com) (http://www.thenewamerican.com)
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The Story of the Fourth of July
The Declaration of Independence
We celebrate American Independence Day on the Fourth of July every year. We think of July 4, 1776, as a day that represents the
Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation.
But July 4, 1776 wasn't the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare independence (they did that on July 2, 1776).
It wasn’t the day we started the American Revolution either (that had happened back in April 1775).
And it wasn't the day Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence (that was in June 1776). Or the date
on which the Declaration was delivered to Great Britain (that didn't happen until November 1776). Or the date it was signed (that was
August 2, 1776).
So what did happen on July 4, 1776?
The Continental Congress approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. They'd been working on it
for a couple of days after the draft was submitted on July 2nd and finally agreed on all of the edits and changes.
July 4, 1776, became the date that was included on the Declaration of Independence, and the fancy handwritten copy that was signed
in August (the copy now displayed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.) It’s also the date that was printed on the Dunlap
Broadsides, the original printed copies of the Declaration that were circulated throughout the new nation. So when people thought of
the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 was the date they remembered.
In contrast, we celebrate Constitution Day on September 17th of each year, the anniversary of the date the Constitution was signed,
not the anniversary of the date it was approved. If we’d followed this same approach for the Declaration of Independence we’d being
celebrating Independence Day on August 2nd of each year, the day the Declaration of Independence was signed!
