Posts Tagged ‘4th of July’

  • Independence Day, July 4th, 2025

    July 5th, 2023 | Fourth of July | journalpulp | 3 Comments

    This is my beautiful hometown of Ouray (pronounced: YOO-ray), which is famous year-in-year-out for the unmatched splendor of its 4th of July celebration: The village of Ouray, where I was born and raised, is named after a Ute Indian called Ouray, who came to be Chief Ouray. Chief Ouray’s mother was a Ute Indian – […]

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  • 4th of July and the Nature of Independence

    4th of July and the Nature of Independence

    July 3rd, 2014 | Fourth of July | journalpulp | 2 Comments

    Independence is individual autonomy. It’s the freedom to govern yourself and to rely upon your own independent judgment. Independence is individual freedom. What is individual freedom? In its fundamental form, individual freedom has one and only one politico-economic meaning: it’s the omission of state force. Freedom is the absence state force and government compulsion. Freedom […]

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