The Fourth of July
What to know: As our nation’s birthday nears, Americans seem more divided than ever.
The TPPF take: What unites us is clearly spelled out in the Declaration of Independence, signed on July 4, 1776, and our other founding documents.
“On this Independence Day, let us resolve to turn our attention to our families, our communities, and our states, declaring independence from a distant and often unresponsive federal government,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “Our national motto, ‘E pluribus unum’—out of the many, one—speaks to a paradox in this light. By allowing the many states room to formulate their own solutions using the democratic process, we can more readily unify into one America. We celebrate this all on Independence Day.”
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Civics Education
What to know: Our knowledge of civics is quickly diminishing. Most Americans can’t pass the citizenship test.
The TPPF take: We need to strengthen civics education.
“Left-wing thought rejects Abraham Lincoln’s assertion that America is ‘the last, best hope of Earth,’” says TPPF’s Tom Lindsay. “Instead, as the New York Times’s 1619 Project would have it, America was, is, and ever shall be tainted by the original sin of slavery. Relativism has so deprived us of an intellectual backbone that we fall prey all too easily to seductive, false prophets such as Marxism. Instead of the Founders’ vision, which rests on the twin pillars of individual equality and inalienable rights, the current vision dominating our schools rests on two different pillars – moral relativism and social justice.”
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Declaring Our Own Independence
What to know: With The Cannon Online as our new platform for disseminating the ideas and opinions of TPPF scholars and experts, we have declared our own independence—from legacy media.
The TPPF take: The Cannon Online is an exciting development for TPPF.
“Previously, we depended on the op-ed pages of newspapers—and their online editions—to disseminate our ideas, the life-blood of the conservative movement,” says TPPF’s Roy Maynard. “Over time, though, the available real estate on those pages has dwindled and the stridency of those who would silence conservative voices has grown. That’s a bad combination for groups like TPPF. This is our response. Our ideas are too important to wait on the space and sympathy of a legacy news outlet.”
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