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3 Reasons America is Great What do John Hickenlooper and Lori Saine Have in Common

Field of Honor ® Veterans’ Day November 11th, 2020, Fort Lupton Colorado gave a very nice address celebrating the day to the attendees, many of whom were veterans who appre4ciated his kind words. Mike West, the Lone Piper, of the Colorado Emerald Society Pipes & Drums, gave quite a rendition of melodies which were in the spirit of the day. Closing remarks were made by Duanne Russel, retired volunteer firefighter & U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, who is President of the Legion Riders out of the Firestone American Legion Post 1985. Duanes comments were very fitting for the day and explained in detail many of the events and efforts that the American Legion sponsors in the community. An excellent presentation that was appreciated by all.

The effort by the City of Fort Lupton and the Citizen’s Advisory committee was impressive. The broad support, across all levels of the community was apparent. Hats off to an effort that shows we can work together to make our community a better place to live, remembering those who have served and those that continue to serve. A job well done by the Committee and all the people of Fort Lupton.

By Bob Grand It would have seemed difficult to redo the opening day of the Field of Honor ® but the Citizen’s Advisory Committee were successful. Mayor Zo Stieber of Fort Lupton welcomed everyone again. The innovation was given by Pastor Keith Besel, of Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church. The colors were presented by the Firestone Fire Department, with the Gilcrest Fire Department presenting the flag folding ceremony. The National Anthem was song by Ms. Amber Ramirez, who, again, did a very nice rendition. Col. Michael Cobb, Commander of the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot,

An Army Veteran and his dog attending the event.

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Mike West, Lone Piper, Colorado Emerald Society Pipes & Drums.

Ronnie and Judy Cerretto

Col. & Mrs. Michael W. Cobb and Nancy Sue Lash, WAC Veteran.

Mike West, the Lone Piper from Colorado Emerald Society Pipes & Drums with attendees.

Weld County Commissioner At Large Elect Perry Buck and Zo Stieber, Mayor of Fort Lupton.

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3 Reasons America Is Great

COMMENTARY BY Jarrett Stepman@JarrettStepman Jarrett Stepman is a contributor to The Daily Signal and co-host of The Right Side of History podcast. Send an email to Jarrett. He is also the author of the new book, “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past.”

Independence Day in 2020 will have great meaning to many Americans.

As we’ve seen many symbols of America’s past get literally smashed by mobs, it’s important for those who still love their country to reflect on why it is exceptional and worth fighting for.

America has always been great and can be greater still.

This is certainly not an exhaustive list of why America is great, of which there are almost countless examples big and small.

Two regimes are fighting an ideological war in America today. But what side are you on? And how can you sharpen up on how to defend your position? Learn more now >> But these examples are more unique to America, unique to why America rose from nothing to become the world’s preeminent superpower in such a short amount of time.

1. A Culture of Self-Government Americans, even before the birth of the United States in 1776, have always been a self-governing people. One of the first orders of business for the Pilgrim settlers when they arrived on the shores of Massachusetts was to create the Mayflower Compact, a basic statement of self-government and loyalty to the British crown.

The Jamestown colony in Virginia set up the House of Burgesses in 1619, the first legislative assembly in the New World.

Following their heritage, the British colonies in America almost immediately established institutions of selfgovernment where community participation in the creation and upholding of laws was extensive.

But in the almost two centuries between the arrival of British colonists in America and the American Revolution, the colonists’ attachment to self-government deepened in comparison to their cousins back in England, where representation was often more symbolic rather than actual.

Amid Parliament’s ultimately foolish attempts to ham-handedly rein in the colonies at the end of the French and Indian War, it was the Crown that triggered the separation, the drive for total independence.

The thought of losing their grip on self-government made the colonists believe that they would soon end up in the vice of absolute tyranny. After years of discontent and pleading with British authorities to loosen their grip of control, the colonies rebelled.

The Declaration of Independence, a remarkable and timeless document, did not just lay out the essential Godgiven rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in its most famous lines.

It also lays out the blow by blow steps of the British government and the colonies to establish that it was not just the rights of the colonists that had been violated, but that the very tools of self-government that could have rectified the situation had been arbitrarily stripped from them.

Americans were a people fitted for liberty and would tolerate no less.

2. The Constitution and the Rule of Law When the Founding Fathers set about creating our own system of government, they codified the principles of self-government to serve countless generations unborn.

After the false start, so to speak, of the Articles of Confederation, the Framers wrote, and the American people ratified, the Constitution of the United States.

This remarkable document created a framework of America’s federal system that lasts still today despite the countless societal changes that have occurred in the last two centuries.

And while, in many ways, that constitutional and federal system has been eroded over time, Americans have remained committed to the idea of the Constitution as the glue that defines our government and binds Americans under a single system with many parts.

This is the cornerstone of liberty and order that defines our republic, ensures that we have an energetic but ultimately limited government.

Certainly, other nations have codified their laws and created founding documents of many stripes, but none matches the enduring legacy of the Constitution of the United States.

The American civilization may be young, but our system of government is quite old, and has excelled through the test of time.

3. The American Dream Self-government and the Constitution have made America strong and adaptable to changing circumstances.

Just as importantly, they’ve created a system whereby the average person can thrive and prosper.

The country’s strength lies in the millions of free-born, self-governing, and self-sufficient people who have taken the protections our unique government provides and created the most wealthy and prosperous nation in human history.

Americans are, and have always been, an enterprising people. But more than just create wealth, we have used our wealth and prosperity.

America’s attachment to the rule of law and defense of private property has allowed the growth of an expansive middle-class.

Yes, America has produced many titans of industry, but the real source of our strength is the fact that the averCont. on Page 4, See 3 Reasons

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TRIVIA How many stores are there in the Leaning Tower of Pisa - eight, 18, or 28?

EIGHT What group recorded the LP WHat is Beat??

THE BEAT What apparel do Timberland and Reebok manufacture?

SHOES What kind of German-made car do the Back to the Future terrorists drive away in?

A VOLKSWAGON What sweet substance is aspartame used as a substitute for?

SUGAR What house at Walt Disney World features a Disneyodendron eximius tree?

SWISS FAMILY TREEHOUSE What country mines the most coal?

THE U.S. What Duran Duran LP features Union of the Snake?

SEVEN AND THE RAGGED TIGER What car-making company sold the most 1985 station wagons?

GENERAL MOTORS What character is said to have been born after flying into Disney Studios and asking: “Do you wanna fight?”?

DONALD DUCK Can guests really spend only a penny in Disneyland’s Penny Arcade?

YES How many cents are there in the Ugandan shilling?

100 What sng has a verse opening: “Oh She’ll wear her red pajamas when she comes”?

SHE’LL BE COMIN’ ROUND THE MOUNTAIN What TV funnyman’s nickname is Cos? BILL COSBY What comedian played the Devil in Disney’s The Devil and Max Devlin?

BILL COSBY What kind of ears does the deer mouse have pointed or round?

ROUND What brand of athletic shoe is plugged by baseball pitcher Dwight Gooden?

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Also on This Day 1990S 1991 Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon free Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite after more than four years of captivity. Waite, looking thinner and his hair grayer, was freed along with American educator Thomas M. Sutherland after intense negotiations by the United Nations.

SPORTS 1966 Sandy Koufax, the ace pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, retires from baseball. He was just 30 years old, and he was retiring after a great season–he’d led the Dodgers to a National League pennant and won his third Cy Young award.

19TH CENTURY 1883 At exactly noon on this day, American and Canadian railroads begin using four continental time zones to end the confusion of dealing with thousands of local times. The bold move was emblematic of the power shared by the railroad companies.

1990S 1999 12 die in bonfire at Texas A&M University For nearly a century, students at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, created a massive bonfire—self-proclaimed to be “the world’s largest”—prior to their school’s annual football game against their archrival, the University of Texas.

CRIME 1996 Tony Silva, a world-renowned expert and outspoken protector of exotic birds, is sentenced to seven years in prison without parole for leading an illegal parrot smuggling operation. Silva was only one of many to be arrested during “Operation Renegade,” US GOVERNMENT 1987 Congress issues final report on Iran-Contra scandal CIVIL WAR 1863 President Abraham Lincoln boards a train for Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to deliver a short speech the following day at the dedication of a cemetery of soldiers killed during the battle there on July 1 to July 3, 1863.

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This Day in History - November 18, 1978 Mass Suicide at Jonestown

On November 18, 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass murdersuicide at their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of Guyana. Many of Jones’ followers willingly ingested a poison-laced punch while others were forced to do so at gunpoint. The final death toll at Jonestown that day was 909; a third of those who perished were children.

Jim Jones was a charismatic churchman who established the Peoples Temple, a Christian sect, in Indianapolis in the 1950s. He preached against racism, and his integrated congregation attracted many African Americans.

In 1965, he moved the group to Northern California, settling in Ukiah and after 1971 in San Francisco. In the 1970s, his church was accused by the media of financial fraud, physical abuse of its members and mistreatment of children. In response to the mounting criticism, the increasingly paranoid Jones invited his congregation to move with him to Guyana, where he promised they would build a socialist utopia. Three years earlier, a small group of his followers had traveled to the tiny nation to set up what would become Jonestown on a tract of jungle.

Jonestown did not turn out to be the paradise their leader had promised. Temple members worked long days in the fields and were subjected to harsh punishments if they questioned Jones’ authority. Their passports were confiscated, their letters home censored and members were encouraged to inform on one another and forced to attend lengthy, late-night meetings. Jones, by then in declining mental health and addicted to drugs, was convinced the U.S. government and others were out to destroy him. He required Temple members to participate in mock suicide drills in the middle of the night.

In 1978, a group of former Temple members and concerned relatives of current members convinced U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan, a Democrat of California, to travel to Jonestown and investigate the settlement. On November 17, 1978, Ryan arrived in Jonestown with a group of journalists and other observers. At first the visit went well, but the next day, as Ryan’s delegation was about to leave, several Jonestown residents approached the group and asked them for passage out of Guyana. Jones became distressed at the defection of his followers, and one of Jones’ lieutenants attacked Ryan with a knife. The congressman escaped from the incident unharmed, but Jones then ordered Ryan and his companions ambushed and killed at the airstrip as they attempted to leave. The congressman and four others were murdered as they boarded their charter planes.

Back in Jonestown, Jones commanded everyone to gather in the main pavilion and commit what he termed a “revolutionary act.” The youngest members of the Peoples Temple were the first to die, as parents and nurses used syringes to drop a potent mix of cyanide, sedatives and powdered fruit juice into children’s throats. Adults then lined up to drink the poison-laced concoction while armed guards surrounded the pavilion.

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3 Reasons America Is Great

Cont. from Page 2 age American has had opportunities to generate wealth and prosperity and create a vibrant civil society.

Many homesteaders went West to get rich, but many more went West to build families and ensure that their children would have a better life than they had.

That’s the spirit of America.

We have used our tremendous resources not only to improve our own lives but the lives of others.

And because of our enormous prosperity Americans remain, by far, the most generous people on Earth.

This Fourth of July, as with every Independence Day, we should be thankful and grateful to be Americans, we should be proud of what our country—though imperfect as all of mankind is imperfect—has accomplished.

It is important and essential that at this time we remember, defend, and pass on what has made this country great.

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What do John Hickenlooper & Lori Saine Have in Common?

By Bob Grand Way too much! Both were elected in this past election. Hickenlooper as the U.S. Senator from Colorado and Saine as the Weld County Commissioner for District 3. Both were supported strongly by forces from outside the District they were elected to represent. Both received way more donor money from people outside the District they represent. Both displayed a distain to meet with their constituents or explain what they planned to do to be advocates for their constituents. Strangely they are from different parties. Another similarity is they were promoted by their respective party establishment drivers. Ask Andrew Romanoff or Tommy Holton. The sad part is that the party establishments, believe that is ok. What it says is that they do not care about the electorate, it is all about control. In Hickenlooper’s case New York United States Senator Chuck Schumer strongly supported him with both California and New York money. The aim was to oust Cory Gardner. The travesty is that Cory Gardner was recognized as one of the best bi-partisan U.S. Senators in Washington. His record of real accomplishment and achievement for all the people of Colorado was impressive. Combined, Senator Bennet and Senator Hiockenlooper will be hard pressed to achieve a fraction of what Cory Gardner did. Gardner’s sin was that he worked with the Trump administration. Well how do you think things get done? But no, getting things done was not the measurement he faced. It was the ingrained hatred of Trump that Gardner had to deal with along with a Colorado Republican party that has a hard time conversing with anyone who is not true red. Be careful when God gives you what you ask for. This past weekend Ken Buck thanked all the folks supporting the Republican effort. Proudly announcing all the contacts that were made. Well the measurement is the results. Ask Cory Gardner if it was as effective as the picture Ken Bucks paints. he picture.

Joe Biden will probably be our next President. But he will not have a Democratically controlled Senate and the House of Representative majority is thin at best with the Republicans picking up more seats than the Democrats ever dreamed of. All signs are the Republicans will pick up the House in the next election cycle.

Biden will have won by a hair. Nowhere near the mandate that the polls said he would have. We have many issues to be resolved that really require a serious bi-partisan effort. I am not optimistic, As far as Hickenlooper goes, his election night statement that “ Washington is broken he plans to work on fixing it” sounds good but what will he do? Wave a magic wand or just dance to Chuck Schumer’s tune. As for Lori Saine the same can be said, except in her case it is not Chuck Schumer but the establishment Weld County Republicans. In either case, we have nobody to blame but ourselves. The good news is we had a record voter turnout The message is we can get the vote out. Our next challenge is to get the voters to be informed. A challenge.

I have to say that Hickenlooper and Saine had other thing in common to mention. Both were endorsed by the Greeley newspaper. The Greeley newspaper was founded on November 16th, 1870. So on Tuesday, November 16th, 2020 it is 150 years old. Quite a record. Unfortunately, the Greeley paper of the last few years has not yet earned the journalism track record that the history of the paper has shown.

We, as citizens, have an obligation to be informed. Thomas Jefferson said: “ If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed”. It just would help if our media folks, both print and radio, and all social media remembered that they are supposed to report the news, not try to make or influence it.