Celebrating America - Nebraska City News-Press

GNR for Friday, July 11, 2025: We Have Just Begun to Fight

Welcome 🌻 to Fridayâs Roundup of Good News! Last week we celebrated the 249th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. That means we are now in the 250th year since then (just like the ...

Celebrating America - Nebraska City News-Press

Today we celebrate the 249th anniversary of America’s founding. With the Declaration of Independence, our founders sought to overthrow tyranny with a simple and self-evident idea. They knew that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights. Our founding ideals of freedom, justice, and equality have guided our country for nearly 250 years.

The Shattered Legacy of the Founding Fathers

Consent, independence, and fireworks. We’re one year away from the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It remains one of the most impactful and revolutionary documents ever written. While our horrific leaders still pay infrequent lip service to it, they obviously don’t remotely believe in the sentiments expressed by Thomas Jefferson. The delineation of God-given rights, as opposed to any granted by a government, …

Not all recipes created equal

Next year, we will celebrate our nation’s 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, but let us not forget that the “shot heard round the world” occurred in 1775, which sparked the beginning of the Revolutionary War.

Editorial: Declaration's truths remain self-evident 249 years later

“Semiquincentennial” is a pretty big word favored by sesquipedalians (people who use big words). It’s a word most of us will use once every 250 years. Not by coincidence, expect to hear it used every now and then in the next 12 months as people of the United States plan how they will observe the 250th anniversary of July 4, 1776, one of the great days of world history.

Independence Day on the Eve of the Semiquincentennial