The things we cherish often tell us a great deal about who we are.

There are many historical statements of the nature, “Tell me...and I’ll tell you.” Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are. Lavrentiy Beria supposedly said tell me the man, and I’ll tell you his crime. Churchill said that a man is as big as the things that make him angry. And so forth. One might add to the list that one can learn a great deal about a person by what he celebrates.

The U.S. is quickly approaching its 250th birthday. Most normal Americans find this cause for celebration. The U.S. is the freest and richest country in the world, and the two go hand in hand. Without the freedoms and recognition of God-given rights, America would just be another bland Western country like those in Europe. Without the emphasis on property rights and the idea that the money is yours and the government taxes it versus Obama’s “you didn’t build that” comment, which means that the government owns everything and gives you a bit of the goodies, the U.S. would not have trillion-dollar corporations. Rags to riches, legal immigrant to millionaire, are common stories in the U.S. Does everybody make it? Nope. For every Apple, there are a hundred companies that tried but did not make it. Facebook made it; MyCrowd not so much.

It was telling last week when the Obamas formally opened their penitentiary on Chicago’s South Side. Valerie Jarrett reappeared to address the convocation. She knee-jerkedly started with a “land acknowledgment” for about half of the tribes that once lived in Illinois. This is the great weakness of the Left. If you really believe that you swiped the land from the true Indian owners, then give it back. Imagine the headlines if Obama had handed a deed of ownership to a local tribe chief. But the Left says a lot of words but never means any of it. It........

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