America 250, Newt Gingrich edition

This weekend's Life, Liberty & Levin programs focused heavily on Declaration of Independence. Further, it focused on the difference between the American Revolution, which led to the most stable government for the past 250 years, and the French Revolution, which led to a destabilization of the French government. Finally, it featured experts like Newt Gingrich and Victor Davis Hanson teaching us about the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War. Meanwhile, Jonathan Turley and John Yoo spoke about the writing and debating of the Constitution.

Each of these men talked about the men involved instarting and finishing the Revolutionary War, then finished by talking about the men who wrote, then debated, the Constitution. During his interview, Newt Gingrich explained that our Founding Fathers focused on virtue and building a resilient structure, not on partisan policies. In the interview, Gingrich said that each of us had a right from God to pursue happiness, "which is an active term." Gongrich said that we didn't have the right to be happy, that there wouldn't be a "Department of Happiness." Gingrich continued, saying that we had the right "to go out and work your heart out doing the things you believe in, chase the things you want to chase and, in that process, become happy."

Gingrich then said that "happy in the late 18th Century was a term from the Scottish Elightenment which meant wisdom and virtue." Here's the video of the interview:

Hubert Humphrey delivered an Independence Day speech at Wilson Park in St. Cloud when he was Vice President where he stated that the U.S. is the only nation to establish happiness as a national goal. The first sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration says this:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

This, my friends, is what seperates us from the rest of the globe. The U.S. admits that we are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

That's an affirming statement that we have the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Unlike Mamdani, AOC and Sanders, I stand with Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Hamilton and George Washington. Washington, BTW, was known as the indespensible President. Jefferson, Madison, Washington, Hamilton and Franklin stood for eternal rights bestowed on us by our Creator, aka Nature's God. Since God doesn't change, rights shouldn't change, either. By contrast, the 'rights' that AOC, Mamdani and Sanders talk about aren't truly rights. They might or might not be worthwhile policies but they aren't rights.