The unknown Revolutionary War HERO who sacrificed everything



The American Revolution was led by many men with names we know by heart — Adams, Revere, Hancock, and Washington — to name a few.

But there’s a lesser known name who’s received little to no time in the limelight in the history books: Dr. Joseph Warren of Massachusetts.

“It’s very interesting,” Mark Levin says. “In New England, early on when the war broke out, before 1776, Dr. Joseph Warren was known better than George Washington.”

During the Battle of Bunker Hill, there was a problem that Warren, a leader of the Revolutionary movement in Boston, helped solve.

The colonists were short on gunpowder, so Warren and a few others put together and signed a letter addressed to the Congress of New York asking for help.

“You read that, and you look at that, and you really think about the men who wrote it and signed it, who put everything on the line, everything they had, including their lives,” Levin says, admiring their sacrifice.

When the Patriots ended up running out of gunpowder during this battle, some of them stood firm at the front line while others were ordered to retreat for another day.

“Dr. Warren insisted on staying on the front line. He was a wanted man, they knew who he was,” Levin explains. “The Americans are overwhelmed, they fight hand to hand combat, and one of the higher ranking British officers, as they were charging up the last time, saw Joseph Warren, aimed his pistol at him in nearly point blank range, shot him between the eyes.”

“And so as not to make a martyr out of Dr. Joseph Warren, they would cut him up into pieces, they would burn what was left of him,” he adds, noting that the British forces also urinated on his remains.

The American forces were able to determine that Warren was one of the dead as in his teeth he had some easily identifiable iron, which was made by Paul Revere, who was a metalsmith.

“I tell you that as a personal example, not personal to me, but a specific example, of what took place,” Levin says.


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El Salvador's Nayib Bukele lauds America's founding ideals, throws shade at modern America in July 4th message



As people around the U.S. marked July 4th, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele noted that Salvadorans take inspiration from the founding ideals of the U.S., but not from the ideals of modern America.

"Congratulations to the people of the United States of America on your Independence Day. We are inspired by you, not by the ideals you hold now, but by the ideals you had in 1776 when you gained your freedom and built the foundations of your great country. We will follow that example. Happy 4th of July!" Bukele declared in a post.

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"This is one of many reasons why I love @NayibBukele," GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah tweeted in response to Bukele's post.

Bukele includes the words "Philosopher King" in his profile on X.

'He is the most inspirational head of state in the Western Hemisphere by far.'

A number of Americans attended Bukele's latest inauguration last month, among them, Lee, who tweeted, "In El Salvador for the inauguration of President Nayib Bukele. He defeated his principal opponent, Manuel Flores, in February’s presidential election. To the best of my knowledge, Bukele made no attempt to imprison Flores."

Lee wrote in another tweet, "Thank you, President Bukele, for a delightful afternoon and an engaging conversation. Sharon and I enjoyed every minute of our time with you, and of our visit to your beautiful country."

"That man loves his country," Lee said of Bukele.

"It was an honor to attend the inauguration of President @nayibbukele in El Salvador with @DonaldJTrumpJr @TuckerCarlson and countless conservatives who support President Bukele's bold vision. He is the most inspirational head of state in the Western Hemisphere by far," Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida tweeted last month.

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Just in time for July 4, opinion piece suggests giving up fireworks, speaks of 'the conflation of selfishness with patriotism'



Scads of people around the nation are likley to enjoy dazzling fireworks displays later this week as they celebrate Independence Day, but in an opinion piece posted by the New York Times, contributing opinion writer Margaret Renkl suggested that people should give up the American tradition.

"The conflation of selfishness with patriotism is the thing I have the hardest time accepting about our political era. Maybe we have the right to eat a hamburger or drive the biggest truck on the market or fire off bottle rockets deep into the night on the Fourth of July, but it doesn’t make us good Americans to do such things. How can it possibly be 'American' to look at the damage that fireworks can cause — to the atmosphere, to forests, to wildlife, to our own beloved pets, to ourselves — and shrug?" Renkl wrote.

'We can eat more vegetables and less animal protein.'

She pointed out that the lound noises from fireworks frighten animals, like pet dogs, and can cause fires.

"We have no real way of knowing how many wild animals suffer because the patterns of their lives are disrupted with no warning every year on a night in early July," Renkl wrote. "And all that's on top of the dangers posed by fireworks debris, which can be toxic if ingested, or the risk of setting off a wildfire in parched summertime vegetation."

"It would be so easy to find a new way to celebrate the founding of a nation. So easy, at the very least, to limit fireworks to public celebrations meant to bring communities together. When those communities use low-noise fireworks, as well, they limit the stress on people and animals, and they mitigate some of the dangers to local wildlife," she asserted.

Renkl's piece also seemed to advocate for people to eat less meat and to set their thermostats to higher temperatures in the summer and lower temperatures in the winter.

"Addressing climate change and biodiversity loss on a planet with eight billion human residents won’t be simple," she wrote. "But there are easy things we can do at no real cost to ourselves. We can eat more vegetables and less animal protein. We can cultivate native plants. We can seek out products that aren’t packaged in plastic, spend less time in cars and airplanes, raise the thermostat in the summer and lower it in the winter."

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Shocking (but also hilarious) leftist reactions to 4th of July



It should come as no surprise that many progressives sought to villainize this year’s Fourth of July celebrations.

Some called the holiday racist. Others called it sexist. Many pointed out the plight of the indigenous people.

The list goes on and on.

Lauren Chen, however, isn’t having it.

She slices their arguments to pieces, exposing them for what they are – utterly absurd.

Certainly Chen is aware of America’s shortcomings, but in no way do these overshadow the beauty that is the United States.

“Is America perfect?” she asks. “No, but is it the greatest nation on the planet?”

“If you ask me, the answer is hell yes.”

Chen’s rebuttal begins with one of America’s most beloved ice cream companies – Ben & Jerry’s – which, unfortunately, happens to be super woke.

On the Fourth, the company tweeted out:

“If they care this much about indigenous land rights, they could give their own land back that they own in Vermont … or they could donate all of their money to Native Americans,” Chen says.

But of course, they won’t do that.

What they likely will do, however, is figure out how to dig themselves out of the boycott grave that ensued as a result of their ridiculous tweet.

Chen then moves on to Cori Bush, the U.S. representative for Missouri's 1st Congressional District, who tweeted:


“If you are someone who believes the Declaration of Independence is a pro-slavery document or that the Constitution is a pro-slavery document, I’m just sorry. You do not understand the principles of America’s founding. You do not understand the beliefs that the founding fathers had,” Chen responds.

“People like Cori Bush,” she continues, “have so much hatred, so much resentment for America that they can’t even take one single day to celebrate everything that is good and right with America.”

Finally, Chen addresses the slew of hateful, divisive videos on TikTok – a “cesspool” of “radical, left-wing extremism,” she calls the platform.

One TikTok creator took it upon himself to rename the holiday, replacing "Independence" with the word “Colonizer.”

“Are you NOT celebrating Colonizer Day today?” he ignorantly spouts.

“Leftists are just so inconsistent with their rhetoric,” Chen says in response. “Simultaneously they want to call Americans colonizers because they’re not Native Americans but also immigrants because they want to make it seem like everyone’s an immigrant.”

Another TikToker says she’s always known that “if there was an American flag at [someone’s] house,” then inevitably “some racist-a** white mother-f*****s” lived there.

“There’s just so much stupidity in, like, twenty seconds,” says Chen in response to the videos.

This only scratches the surface of the uninformed and entirely nonsensical comments made about America’s Independence Day though.

To watch Chen destroy all these leftist arguments, watch the full clip below.


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Democratic Rep. Cori Bush declares on July 4th that it 'is a great day to demand Reparations Now'



Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri declared on Independence Day that it was a great time to call for reparations.

"The Declaration of Independence was written by enslavers and didn't recognize Black people as human. Today is a great day to demand Reparations Now," Bush tweeted on Tuesday.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton responded to the left-wing lawmaker's tweet by calling her an "anti-American extremist."

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"Ma'am, if you hate America so much - why don't you just leave? You are FREE to do so. And Delta is ready when you are," conservative radio host Todd Starnes tweeted.

Bush and other reparations advocates have pushed the "Reparations Now Resolution," which, among other elements, declares that the House "recognizes the responsibility of the Federal Government to provide reparations, in all necessary forms, including financial compensation, to rectify ongoing harms resulting from violations, by the Federal Government, of Black people’s human right to self-determination and freedom from discrimination, including with respect to housing, health, education, life, security of person, water and sanitation, and a healthy environment."

Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman tweeted on Tuesday, "This July 4th, we must remember that we stand on stolen land toiled by enslaved Africans and recommit ourselves to the fight for freedom, equality, & justice so that these ideals are accessible to everyone, not just a privileged few. We are not free until everyone is truly free."

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida claimed that those who view the country as an evil entity constructed on stolen land, and who take issue with the American flag, patriotic songs, and USA chants, are "nuts."

"Today we have many influential people who see America as an evil nation built on stolen land & who are offended by our [flag], patriotic songs & chants of USA," Rubio tweeted. "Please make sure your kids understand that those people may be rich,famous or have fancy degrees but they also happen to be nuts."

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