Saturday, July 04, 2009
Are We Celebrating on the Wrong Day? [Jonah Goldberg]
Joseph Ellis seems to think so.
Update: From a reader:
Dear Mr. Goldberg,
This Ellis fella seems to think we're pretty dumb, celebrating on July 4 when nothing happened. I know I wasn't there, so I don't know for sure what happened. I figure he must have traveled back with Mr. Peabody and Sherman on the Wayback Machine to be so smart. I celebrate on the Fourth, because on that piece of parchment in the National Archives, the first words printed, right there at the very top say: "In CONGRESS. July 4, 1776."
That's enough for me.
Sounds about right. The use of the word "fraud" in the Daily Beast's headline strikes me as particularly silly.
07/04 06:58 AM
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