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Nation

The Right to Happiness: Daniel Greenfield
The eternal choice: freedom or slavery: Robert Spencer
Independence Day, 2013: Jazz Shaw, Hot Air

Afterburner with Bill Whittle: Dependence Day: Scoop
de Tocqueville's Warning to America: Joel Pollak
Ill. Gov. Demands Gun Limits in Concealed Carry Law: LawOfficer

Dan Bongino’s 4th of July speech on why we must fight back!: Scoop
Independence Day: It's Time to Act: Stacy Rush
Obama administration’s support for Mursi: Huma Abedin’s mother: Shoebat

Economy

ObamaCare Kicks Wives Off Husbands' Health Plans: IBD
Pelosi's 'Dependence Day' Pitch: William Sullivan
Coburn, Gingrey demand answers on 201 full-time IRS union reps: DC

Lew Urges Newly Sworn U.S. Citizens to Back Illegal Immigration: PJM
Time to Sequester Air Force One Vacation Flights: FTTWR
442 days since Quinn "put on earth" to fix Illinois pensions: Marathon

Scandal Central

Government tracking all snail-mail, no warrant required: Joe Saunders
And Now They Trample The Third Amendment: Herschel Smith
Chicago Fourth of July shootings kill at least 6 in last 24 hours: ABC-7

Climate & Energy

EPA Wants Control Over Your Appliances: BlurBrain
Volcano's eruption has American Airlines, other U.S. carriers canceling Mexico flights: Dallas News
Trillions of dollars worth of oil found in Australian outback: Telegraph

Media

An Independence Day Plan of Action: Watchdog Wire
Lib ‘journalist’ blasts Twitchy for ‘fake’ pro-abortion photo, ends up eating crow: Twitchy
‘Never heard of him’: Notable Columbia prof says he isn’t sure Obama attended Columbia University: Oliver Darcy

America!: C&S
The best anti Obama protest signs in Egypt: FAM
MSNBC Ratings In Free Fall, Liberal Network Sees Worst Quarter Since 2007…: WZ

World

Obama Doubles Down on Egypt Folly: Jonathan S. Tobin
Egyptians to US Ambassador Anne Patterson: Get the hell out of our country: Twitchy
Terror Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki Spent Kinky Nights in D.C. With at Least 7 Hookers: American Power

Obama threatens to cut aid to Egypt; Lawmakers charge pro-Morsi policy damaged U.S. interests: WorldTribune
Egyptians Not So Excited About Future President Clinton: JWF
Islamist gunmen stage multiple attacks in Sinai: Reuters

Scum-Sucking Anti-Semite Jimmy Carter doesn't acknowledge Israel exists: Matzav
Loud explosions heard in Eilat: Times of Israel
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Recovers After Morsi's Ouster: Stratfor

Sci-Tech

3D Printed Firearm Smuggled Into Israeli Parliament By Reporters: TFB
Mysterious radio bursts in far parts of universe hint at cataclysm: LAT
Perfection, No Matter What Caliber You Feed It. Well Almost.: TAG

Cornucopia

Intelligent Design: American Digest
The Alternative Secret History of the World: The People's Cube
Arresting Active Resisters: PoliceMag

Image: On July 4, Statue of Liberty to Finally Reopen
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: American Digest

QOTD: "Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their gate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industr, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

This, it every day renders the exercise of the free agency of man less useful and less frequent; it circumscribes the will within a narrower range, and gradually robs a man of all the uses of himself. The principle of equality has prepared men for these things; it has predisposed men to endure them, and oftentimes to look on them as benefits.

After having thus successfully taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp, and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." --Alexis de Tocqueville