July 4, 2026

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

—Calvin Coolidge, Address at the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 5, 1926.

Posted at 5:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

REDNECK NATION: NY Times Defends Organizer of ‘Muslims Only’ Swim Party.

Happy 4th everyone. I’m celebrating like everyone else with family, friends and fireworks. However, I wanted to say something about this story from the NY Times which bends over backwards to defend Aminah Knight, the woman to posted a flyer for a “Muslims only” swim event in Texas.

Ms. Knight, a former public-school teacher from New York City, was determined. She wanted something for families — and especially for young women and girls who, like her, enjoyed swimming but disliked the attention that full-body swimwear, common in the Middle East, often drew at American pools.

“We swim too,” Ms. Knight thought. She refused to settle for another bounce house party.
She traveled from mosque to mosque across North Texas’ booming Muslim community, talking up her event. She made her own website and flyer. And her efforts worked. Hundreds attended.

That was the first year. She held the event again last year and it was even more popular. This year she planned to host it again but things didn’t go as planned.

She had a flyer ready, which she shared widely on social media last year, when more than 500 people turned out. She changed a few words, adding that the event would be “family-friendly.”

And she kept the part that said: “Muslims Only.”

She didn’t think twice about it. After all, the event celebrated a Muslim holiday. There would be halal meat, Islamic music, a private prayer area and a dress code of modest swimwear.

She wanted observant families to feel comfortable. She never thought anyone would mind.

But this year people noticed the flyer and in particular the part that read “Muslims only.” First it attracted the attention of a local podcaster and then the NY Post. Eventually she removed that wording from the flyer but it was too late. The governor stepped in.

Read the whole thing. I guess as long as the event was separate, but entirely equal to other pool parties, the Gray Lady would be fine with it. Straight out of Redneck Nation, and more recently, Ryan Long’s “When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything” video:

And speaking of Redneck Nation:

Earlier: Darializa Avila Chevalier’s Hostility to Interracial Romances and ‘Ugly Colonizer Women’ Earns Praise From Ex-KKK Grand Wizard David Duke.

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Native Americans corralled Spanish horses decades before Europeans arrived.

There’s just one problem here:

Perhaps it’s a geographical issue:

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

IT’S A SOUTHERN POVERTY SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL!

When Reuters sent out their photographer to shoot this clearly staged photo, couldn’t they have also dispatched a reporter to write up a story as well?

Exit quote:

Do the Patriot Front guys do anything besides marching around in suspiciously clean khakis, masks and baseball caps?  Is there any burning, looting, statue toppling or podium stealing? They seem very much like the Monty Python sketch about would-be bank robbers afraid of breaking the law:

UPDATE:

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

OLD AND BUSTED: Moscow on the Hudson.

The New Coldness? Siberia at Gracie Mansion!

Posted at 1:17 pm by Ed Driscoll

QUESTION ASKED:

That’s great, but it’s not as great as Steve Gadd, who went on to play with just about everybody, playing drums in 1970 in the US Army band to provide the backbone of a surprisingly funky “Cissy Strut:”

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE LIE’S NAME IS HOWARD ZINN: 1976 and the Lie That Broke Our National Unity.

Related:

Posted at 12:14 pm by Glenn Reynolds

KEEP YOUR DISHWASHER CLEAN: Affresh Dishwasher Cleaner. #CommissionEarned We use this and it works well!

Posted at 11:02 am by Helen Smith

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Posted at 10:16 am by Stephen Green

THIS ISN’T JUST A BURN, IT’S DEEP-FRYING THE HUFFPO:

Posted at 9:47 am by Glenn Reynolds