Independence Day 2026 Stout-Hearted Men Music by Sigmund Romberg, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Give me some men Who are stout-hearted men Who will fight For the rights They adore Start me with ten Who are stout-hearted men And I'll soon give you ten Thousand more Shoulder to shoulder And bolder and bolder They grow as they go to the fore Then there's nothing in the world Can halt or mar a plan When stout-hearted men Can stick together man to man You Who have dreams

26 June 2026 I do not want to be a Johnny Come Lately with the 250th anniversary of the Birth of America, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and the Greatest Show On Earth (in the States). I’d initially thought: “I want to have a nice, quiet 4th of July. Now that I’m a Westerner, my eyes really won’t be on D.C. I left there long ago. I’m grateful and glad that city is finally getting cleaned up, fumigated, re-introduced to Law and Order.” The 4th of July

4 July 2025 Dona Dona Dona by Teddi Schwartz, Sholom Secunda, Arthur S. Kevess, and Aaron Zeitlin On a wagon bound for market There’s a...

End of June 2025 A couple of months ago, I reportedly awoke in my sleep, sometime in the middle of the night, and asked Dear Husband: ...

Independence Day 2024 Ghost Riders in the Sky by Stan Jones An old cowpoke went ridin’ out one dark and windy day Upon a ridge he...

4 July 2024 Cry Me a River by Arthur Hamilton Now you say you’re lonely You cried the whole long night through Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river I cried a river over you. Now you say you’re sorry for being so untrue Well, you can cry me a river cry me a river I cried, cried, cried a river over you. Yes, you drove me, nearly drove me, out of my head While you never shed a tear I remember, I remember, all that you said You told me love was too plebe

4 July 2023 Country music, such as it used to be, was once the bastion of poets who happened to write songs for sale. The first of this...

4 July 2023 Native to western South America and Central America, the tomato was discovered in 1519 by Hernán Cortés. That Spanish...

Independence Day 2022 Swing low, sweet chariot Coming for to carry me home, I say swing low, sweet chariot Coming for to carry me home. ...

4 July 2020 We are closing in on the end-of-construction of my Dream House. Yesterday, I visited the site, which has begun to look like a...

2 July 2020 Yesterday, I was working on my laptop, quite happily I might add, working on the translation of Chapter 74 of THE DAWN into...

5 July 2019 My years in Washington, D.C. were wretched ones, highlighted by a half-a-dozen stellar, stalwart individuals whom I...

July 2018 Ahoy: All Hands on Deck! It’s entirely a matter of speculation, but I highly doubt that Lawrence Kudlow, economist...

3 July 2017 When we first brought Chance home, we knew that this beagle had some very large paws to fill, although his paws are quite...

I have a unique vantage point in California. Born in New Jersey and raised there during a time of the early decline of the Industrial...