Although traditional fuel costs $3.60 per gallon, the U.S. Navy has opted to power its so-called “Green Fleet” with a biofuel blend that costs $26 per gallon. Apparently oblivious to staggering budget deficits, the Pentagon has funded the “Green Fleet”—which recently began its 6-week-long exercise in the Pacific—through its green fuels initiative.

JP Morgan Chase is in trouble – again. The government deemed too big to fail bank, investment and insurance firm announced in May that it had lost $2 billion on trades from its London office that went badly. It is time to put an end to irrational government policy that encourages billion dollar risks to avoid a continual cycle of costly bailouts that accelerate our nation’s plummet from greatness. It’s time to let them fail.

Nearly two centuries ago Daniel Webster stood before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of James McCulloch, head of the Baltimore branch of the Second Bank of the United States. At issue were two basic questions: Did the federal government have the authority to establish a bank? And did states have the authority to tax that bank (and by extension the federal government)? “An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy,” Webster famously argued in opposition to the latter question.

There is no “silver lining” to last week’s lawless and illegitimate decision by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and the other four commie liberals to uphold the unconstitutional individual mandate in Obamacare as a tax (something the Court is not supposed to be allowed to do—re-write a law). Any conservative who speculates that Roberts’ grossly wrong-headed majority opinion is somehow good for our side is pathetically grasping at imaginary straws.

Peter Dahlberg of Rapid City will offer a visual presentation of his experiences during the Battle of the Bulge, 1944-1945, on Saturday, July 14th at Western Dakota Technical Institute, 9-11 am. The event is sponsored by the Black Hills Veterans Writing Group.

The Fourth of July is called Independence Day because it commemorates the Continental Congress ratifying the text of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. However, I seriously wonder how relevant Independence Day or the Declaration of Independence is to Americans today, especially with such a large segment of the American public desperate to be DEPENDENT on government tyranny to provide things to them at the expense of their fellow Americans.

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Washington, D.C., was in a panic as 70,000 Confederate troops were just sixty miles away near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. As General Lee found his ammunition running low, he ordered General Pickett to make a direct attack. After an hour of murderous fire and bloody hand-to-hand combat, the Confederates were pushed back and the Battle of Gettysburg ended JULY 3, 1863, with over 50,000 casualties.

Answering what we will be celebrating this week, the probable response would be “the Fourth of July.” But the fourth of July is just another day on the calender. The traditional celebration is Independence Day of long ago. But not so long ago that we forget the meaning of the day. So many of us have forgotten the basic reason we celebrate the Fourth of July, like we forget the reasons for so many other national observances.