Yes, America's Birthday Deserves to Be Celebrated

The Declaration of Independence expressly founded America on the ideal of liberty. Above all, this is a day to celebrate that fact.

Yet, raucous voices from the streets, the halls of Congress, and the ivory towers of academia are telling us otherwise. America, they say, is not something to celebrate, but to be ashamed of, and the American tradition is fundamentally rooted, not in liberty, but in slavery.

That is quite simply wrong.