In his Townhall.com column today, Michael Medved sounds like my Independence Day post last year:
The prophetic nature of [John Adams’] vision still makes the heart race and takes the breath away, some 231 years later. Predicting ?illuminations? (the 18th Century term for fireworks!) to celebrate Independence Day from ?one end of the continent to the other? remains almost freakishly prescient. When Adams wrote those words, the colonies occupied only a narrow, intermittent strip of settlements along the eastern seaboard; the very notion of a true continental nation looked wildly implausible, all but unimaginable.
Happy Independence Day.
