Independence Day – California Globe

Celebrating America’s 249th Birthday in a Small Town

July 5, 2025 9:36 amJuly 5, 2025 9:36 am

As California Governor Gavin Newsom was probably sipping on a PlumpJack Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon and bashing the President for the One Big Beautiful Bill passage, as well as hard-timing him over fires which broke out of federal land in California,...

On Independence Day Remember the Declaration of Independence

July 4, 2025 3:00 amJuly 4, 2025 3:01 am

America’s revolutionary Charter of Freedom, the Declaration of Independence is a document upon which our nation’s founding principles were established, and set the course for our nation on a journey of freedom. Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the...

A Very Normal and Wonderful Independence Day Breathes Life Into Oppressive California

July 5, 2024 8:38 amJuly 8, 2024 6:18 am

As I have reported before, living in downtown Sacramento for more than 30 years hasn’t always been a picnic. I frequently write about encounters with homeless vagrants in downtown, as well as in the park near my house. I also...

On Independence Day Remember the Declaration of Independence

July 4, 2024 2:45 amJuly 4, 2024 2:46 am

America’s revolutionary Charter of Freedom, the Declaration of Independence is a document upon which our nation’s founding principles were established, and set the course for our nation on a journey of freedom. Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the...

Independence Day 1986, President Ronald Reagan Addresses the Nation

July 4, 2023 3:30 amJuly 4, 2023 3:31 am

In 1986 President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation on Independence Day, July 4, 1986, from the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy” in New York Harbor. From his address, hold this message closely: “My fellow Americans, it falls to us to keep...