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He is a descendant of US Founding Fathers Benjamin Rush and Richard Stockton The saga of the missing Titanic submersible Titan continues to grip the world. And now three days after the OceanGate watercraft vanished, anger is beginning to mount over the doomed mission. OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush is one of the five men on the Titan, with around 20 hours of oxygen left. The Titan is currently missing with five people on board after it lost communication during a dive to the Titanic's wreckage, which is around 12,500ft below the Atlantic.

On this day in 1746, Benjamin Rush is born. He’s another of those Founders that most modern Americans don’t know too much about . . . but perhaps we should. Rush was the only medical doctor to sign the Declaration of Independence. Soon after the Declaration was signed, he left the relative comfort of Philadelphia and departed for the field of battle. His mission? Help establish a field hospital and tend to the wounded. You have to wonder if he really knew what he was getting himself into? Rush was with George Washington’s army in the days before and after...

You've heard of the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, but how many have heard of the Philadelphia Tea Party which soon followed? It was attended by 8,000 Philadelphians (one third the population of the city at that time)on December 27, 1773. How many are aware the Tea Tax rebellion actually began in Philadelphia with the ratification of eight tax resolutions in October 1773 shortly thereafter adopted in early December by our then brothers and sisters in Boston? Please join us for our CHRISTMAS TEA PARTY commemorating the 226th Anniversary of the First Philadelphia Tea Party, the first known...

The design of this attempt to rescue patriotism from obloquy is to prepare the way for calling upon you to show whether the opposition you formerly gave to the British Parliament in their attempts to tax the American colonies was founded upon resentment and party rage, or whether it flowed from a well-informed zeal in the cause of liberty. You have heard of the machinations of the enemies of our country to enslave us by means of the East-India Company. By the last accounts from Britain we are informed that vessels were freighted to bring over a quantity of tea...

Misquoting Our Founding Fathers    TO THE SOURCE How many times have your heard that "Our founding fathers were not Christians! They were deists!"? It is an absurd assertion. It conjures up images of clandestine gatherings in Philadelphia's Independence Hall where one by one Washington and Jefferson and Adams et al swear allegiance to some obscure deist creed and pledge to set America on the course of eradicating Biblical belief from all corners of the land. Sure some of our nation's founders were deists. Consider the grumpy pamphleteer Thomas Paine in The Age of Reason: "I do not believe in...