|
|
IN-DEPTH
|
|
|
Thomas Mitchell Tom is the editor of the Review-Journal and writes about the newspaper's role in the community. Vin Suprynowicz Vin is a nationally syndicated Libertarian columnist and author, writing about constitutional freedoms. The Complete Las Vegan Direct from the desk of the publisher, let Sherman Frederick share his views of the news with you.
|
|
Featured Jobs
|
|
|
|
OPINION
- Jul. 04, 2009
|
|
|
|
EDITORIAL:
The Fourth of July
Today we celebrate that stirring day in history, July 4, 1812, when the first president of the United States, Benjamin Franklin, emerged from the old State House in Boston, held up the new Constitution freshly penned by Thomas Jefferson of New York, and announced to the cheers of the gathered throng that, "These United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent of the crown of Spain!" Who would not wish to have been there, joining in the joyous tumult, as the commander of the Continental Army, Ulysses S. Grant, promptly ordered his men to board the waiting steamships and set sail for San Juan Hill?
FROM OUR READERS:
In the dark about the new light bulbs
To the editor:
|
NATIONAL NEWS FROM |
 |
 |
|
|
|
|