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OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. -- Okaloosa County is reapplying for permits required to sink the SS United States.The county said they are reapplying for the permitting area where the SS United States will be deployed. This results in the original permit being modified.The historic ocean liner is set to become the world's largest artificial reef. The only thing standing in the way now is final approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers."There's people that want to come from all over Europe, Australia, Asia all different locations wanting to hit it," says Mason Ousley, the manager at Dive Pros.>>>The ocean liner...

The real story of the Declaration of Independence - the secret conversation between Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOOQfGWt8Hc

Video at link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pZ1brENIjw

Young Washington is a 2026 American epic historical war drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Jon Erwin. It is based on the early life of the Founding Father and first president of the United States, George Washington and focuses on his experiences and command in the French and Indian War between 1753 and 1755. William Franklyn-Miller stars as the titular character, alongside Mary-Louise Parker, Kelsey Grammer, Andy Serkis and Ben Kingsley.The film premiered at the Tribeca Festival on June 13, 2026, and was released in the United States by Angel Studios on July 3, 2026. The film received mixed...

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 Palestine Action US founder Calla Walsh attends Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral and calls him the “greatest anti-Imperialist leader” in her lifetime. This is the brainwashing going on in the far-left, making them to unite with Islamists and terrorists.

Abigail was born to William Smith, a minister, and his wife, Elizabeth, in 1744 in Massachusetts. Despite having no access to formal education, she became an avid reader with access to many books through her father and grandfather. Philosophy, government, law, and theology were all subjects she enjoyed and would serve as the foundation for her values and passions. Concerning women’s education, she is known for writing, “If we mean to have Hero Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.” She strongly opposed slavery and there are several letters to her husband on the subject. She wrote, “I wish...

Too good to be true? On July 4, 1826, the very day on which America celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Independence, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died. While this fact - dramatic enough - is beyond dispute, the ninety-year-old Adams's last words as they have come down to us,"Jefferson survives," seem a bit too perfectly constructed. Yet no historian ever questioned them. ... Further investigation turned up the one and only person known to have been present when Adams last spoke: Louisa Smith, the never-married, fifty-three-year-old niece and adopted daughter of Abigail Adams. Smith at some point told the...

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, EVERYONE!!!!!!

I didn't see this posted. 30 minute speech. Please to enjoy.

Every now and then, though, a 250th-inspired event comes along that feels genuinely thoughtful and delightfully specific. At The Rittenhouse Hotel, that idea takes shape in LiberTea, a new afternoon tea service. The concept is rooted in a lesser-known Revolutionary War tradition: When colonists boycotted British-imported tea from the East India Company, they instead turned to local herbs, spices, and botanicals to create their own blends of “Liberty Teas.” “The Boycott,” a spearmint-based tisane layered with lemon balm, orange, rose hip, and rose petals. “Her Flag” pays homage to Hyperion Tea, which was a popular Liberty Tea. The blend —...

Democrats are competitive in six key Senate battlegrounds, but Republicans still hold the edge in the fight for the upper chamber, according to new polling from The New York Times and Siena. The New York Times/Siena Polls found Democrats leading the Senate races in North Carolina, where Democrat Roy Cooper is battling Republican Michael Whatley to replace retiring Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and in Maine, where progressive Graham Platner hopes to oust Sen. Susan Collins (R). Cooper boasts the biggest lead among the six battlegrounds surveyed, with 50 percent to Whatley’s 43 percent. Platner, at 49 percent, was up 2...

Releasing a film about a founding father of the United States during the country’s 250th birthday year is such a slam-dunk idea that it’s a wonder there haven’t been several already. Somehow, “Young Washington,” the latest release from faith-friendly, red state-targeted Angel Studios, has the field all to itself. Luckily, it’s good—not a knockout by any means, but a modern example of the sort of movie that used to be a permanent asset in Hollywood’s studio portfolio: a well-crafted but accessible biopic about the maturation of a person who helped shape the nation’s image of itself. Jon Erwin’s drama is...

President Trump signed 11 pardons Friday, including one for the convicted former business partner of infamous lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a White House official told The Post. Adam Kidan was sentenced to 70 months in prison in 2006 after pleading guilty to conspiracy and fraud charges related to his attempt, along with Abramoff, to purchase SunCruz Casinos for $147.5 million with a counterfeit wire transfer document. Kidan, an entrepreneur, has since gone on to start multiple staffing companies and has become a major Republican donor. The bulk of the pardons are for individuals convicted of tampering with emission control systems on...

The Second Continental Congress voted to approve the U.S. Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Some former colonists — now citizens — could not wait an entire year to celebrate, albeit in a somewhat morbid way. In the summer of 1776, Americans held mock funerals for King George III of Great Britain, their former sovereign whom the Declaration of Independence labeled a tyrant. The mock funerals represented a dramatic change in more ways than one. First, as subjects in the British Empire, American colonists had grown accustomed to celebrating the king’s birthday each year. George III turned 38 years...

Went with my brother and a friend today to see "Young Washington" which was released today. I have been looking forward to this movie for some time, and wondered if any other Freepers saw it, and if you liked it. Me? I thought it was great. I am reasonably well read on Washington, and I think he is one of the greatest men who have ever lived. To me, 95% of Americans who know anything about George Washington only know about his activities in the years directly before and after 1775, and this movie ended about ten years before that....

You know about the lightbulb and the iPhone. This is the unknown story of another ingenious creation that changed a nation.Over the past 250 years, America has produced the world’s most valuable inventions. The lightbulb. The internet. The telephone and the iPhone. Since the founding of the United States, we have built airplanes, refrigerators and Costco. We dreamed up the microchip and we gave the world chocolate-chip cookies. But the greatest American innovation that you won’t ever find on a list of America’s innovations might just be one that you see every day. It’s an unsung idea that changed a...

The Declaration’s gift of freedom and equality is our duty to preserve. As you may have read, Americans are said to be in a sour mood as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. President Trump is unpopular, real wages are flat, and many on the political left don’t even think July Fourth is the real anniversary. They prefer 1619, the year the first slaves arrived. Yet to our mind the remarkable news of this anniversary is that our free republic has stood for a quarter millennium and prospers still. The nation has faced many stress tests...

Touring a young United States in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at Americans’ boundless appetite for commerce, industry and wealth. “Nothing checks the spirit of enterprise,” the 25-year-old Frenchman later recounted in “Democracy in America.” As to the reason: “I have no doubt that the democratic institutions of the United States…are the cause…of the prodigious commercial activity of the inhabitants.” The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence finds the U.S. the biggest and most dynamic economy in the world and among its richest. As Tocqueville intuited long ago, Americans owe much of that to the democracy the founders built....

The power didn't go out...they turned it off!! Mamdani says turn AC to 78... City hall's inside temperature is 72. NYC has over 500 electric buses... Some cell towers are out, and traffic lights are out.

RIPON, Wis. — As the United States marks its 250th anniversary this weekend, a one-room schoolhouse in Ripon stands as the birthplace of the Republican Party and a reminder of Wisconsin's place in the nation's political history. The Little White Schoolhouse, about 60 miles northeast of Madison, commemorates a meeting held March 20, 1854, when opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act gathered to organize against the expansion of slavery. "It was really cold and it was a blizzard," said Ellen Sorensen, the interim executive director of the Little White Schoolhouse. "It was a three-point objection," Sorensen said. "There was a moral...