"Nothing of importance happened today."

Wrote King George III in his diary, July 4, 1776. Not. He didn't even keep a diary. From a list of "10 Things You Didn't Know A...

"Have academics really become so political that we are now required to write partisan pamphlets rather than scholarly treatises?"

Scott Douglas Gerber, commenting on the reaction he got to his book "First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas." [H]...

"Is America built on a lie?"

That's #1 on the "Most Popular" list at bbc.com. The actual title of the article when you click on it is: "Is the US Decl...

"[N]ew Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

Most likely ! Seems most likely... That's almost devil-may-care! Are we playing the odds here? What if some big project today, somethin...

"[T]hey are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Among these... So there are others. What other inalienable rights would you like to call to our attention today?

"[A] decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

Does a decent respect for the opinions of mankind ever impel you to declare anything?

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes..."

"... and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right the...

"Reading The Declaration Of Independence Aloud..."

NPR does a nice job of.