DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS: Mom shoots man trying to steal her car with her kids inside.

ACTUALLY, SOCIALISM DOES WORK: "[T]he leaders of the socialist movement are perfectly well aware that the inevitable result of socialism is tyranny and mass poverty. But for them, this isn’t a bug, it is a feature."

SEEN ON A CHURCH MESSAGE BOARD:

I didn't call it the Ten Recommendations.

-- God.

But that was before political correctness....

LET THE SUPREME COURT NOMINEE BE AMY CONEY BARRETT: New Harvard research says U.S. Christianity is not shrinking, but growing stronger. Put the Democrats to a real test.

Update: Trump's pick for SCOTUS is Brett Kavanaugh. Maybe he's saving Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg - that would cause progressive heads to explode....

AND THEY'RE NOT JUST ON WOMEN: Americans apparently have the biggest boobs in the world.

JUST NOT HIS SEAT: On eve of Trump's Supreme Court pick, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) suggests Democrats sacrifice Senate seats to stop nomination.

JUST DESSERTS (LITERALLY): Rhino poachers killed, eaten by pride of lions after breaking into South African game reserve. The authorities believe there were three poachers based on the recovery of pairs of shoes....

KLAVAN ON THE CULTURE: The toxic race-mongering of the Left.

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION continues the Great Undoing.

INDEPENDENCE DAY POSTSCRIPT: Conceived in Liberty.

GOD BLESS AMERICA: An enduring love letter.

POWERLINE: THE ETERNAL MEANING OF INDEPENDENCE DAY, Part I and Part II.

HE DIDN'T NEED THE JOB. But he took it anyway.

And America is better off for it.

A REAL AMERICAN on the meaning of Independence Day.

ANN COULTER ON INDEPENDENCE DAY: "We made it for ...[242]... years. And then, for some reason, the Democrats decided to give our country away to the rest of the world."

GIVEN THE STRANGLEHOLD the revolutionary revolting Left has on education, I'm surprised it isn't larger: The patriotism gap.

IF YOU VALUE DIVERSITY THAT MUCH, why don't you resign and open your position to someone 'diverse'?

To which the white liberal establishment responds "Well, someone must take care of the slaves 'diversity' employees on the plantation campus."

THE FOURTH OF JULY is not about barbecues, fireworks or even patriotism. It's about that idea: that people have the right to rule themselves.

STEVE HILTON: I didn’t get the true genius of America’s founders till I moved here.

"The melting pot; decentralized government; a republic of equals; a Constitution enshrining the precious ideal of people power. It is all under threat this Fourth of July – and we need to fight for it.

Hilton is a British citizen now living in the U.S. I hope he chooses to stay.

CLIMATE CHANGE ALARMISM — a two-act play, starring Bette Midler. You would think that - eventually - the eco-freaks would learn that Nature, not man, controls the Earth's A/C unit....