Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride in 1775 is remembered as the battle cry on horseback that alerted the Minutemen of Massachusetts Bay that “The British are coming!”

THE United States is six months away from celebrating its 250th birthday—making it the oldest democracy in the world. Its first few birthdays were kicked off by kicking out a British monarch who took far too many liberties with his American Colonies without granting his subjects anything approaching actual liberty. There were stubborn edicts, stifling censorship, imperious tea and stamp taxes, Red Coats rifling through personal effects, incarcerations without being charged, juries never convened and trial dates that never materialized.

Talk about not carrying a grudge—for nearly 50 years! Is there anything Iran can do that we would not forgive?

Who would ever have guessed that frigid Minneapolis, situated in America’s great north, would become the battleground for the kind of rising national temperature that in 1861 precipitated a civil war? Minneapolis may become the new Antietam.

“We are a nation of immigrants.” We hear that a lot nowadays. It’s become the go-to phrase for those who believe that border controls are cruel and deporting violent illegal immigrants is downright un-American.