On Monday, July 4, Americans will gather nationwide to celebrate the birthday of John Quincy Adams (aka "Quincizzy"), the Godfather of Founding.
Quincizzy was born a poor black child, but thanks to a strict regimen of religion-based education and discipline, he was able to rise above those circumstances, quickly becoming one of the richest intellectual property owners in the colonies.
With his newfound wealth, Quincizzy then purchased a corporate jet which he named "The Spirit of Waterloo."
It was aboard this plane that he and Paul Revere would take their famous ride to warn the Redcoats that there won't be any mud wrestling.
Upon returning from that fateful trip to New Hampshire, Quincizzy made his most revolutionary discovery—the recipe for independence; and that is why we now raise our glasses to him.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Preempted by Wimbledon coverage.
Face the Nation: Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D); Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R); Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R); Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D).
This Week: Former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee; Former Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL); Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Jose Antonio Vargas; Roundtable: George Will (Washington Post), Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson, Harvard University Professor Jill Lepore and Richard Stengel (TIME).
Fox News Sunday: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX); Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT); Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Roundtable: Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard), Nina Easton (Fortune Magazine), Chris Stirewalt (Fox News) and Kristen Powers (New York Post).
State of the Union: Sem. John McCain (R-AZ); AOL Co-Founder Steve Case; Secretary of Housing & Urban Development Shaun Donovan; Harlem Children's Zone CEO Geoffrey Canada; Personal Finance Expert Suze Orman; Hip Hop Mogul Russel Simmons; Reliable Sources: TBD.
The Chris Matthews Show: Dan Rather (HDNet); Katty Kay (BBC); Gloria Borger (CNN); John Harris (Politico).
Fareed Zakaria GPS: National Security Adviser Tom Donilon; Author Bruce Feiler.
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: a report on the 47-year-old unsolved civil rights murder of Louis Allen (preview); a report on the work of the Global Medical Relief Fund, which has helped over 100 children maimed by war get surgery (preview); and, a look inside the Vatican Library, from which only the Pope is allowed to borrow books (preview).
On Comedy Central:
Jon Stewart examined Mark Halperin's dickish behavior.
And Stephen Colbert agreed that Michele Bachmann killed it when she officially kicked off her presidential campaign.
Note: The Daily Show and The Colbert Report will be airing reruns this week. New episodes will return on Monday, July 11.
Elsewhere:
World Net Daily editor Joseph Farah and author Jerome Corsi followed through on their promise to relitigate the issues decided by the Supreme Court in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, suing Esquire magazine for $120 million.
Filed by Larry Klayman, the original founder of the group Judicial Watch and head of Freedom Watch USA who has said President Obama is on a "political jihad promoting Islam," the suit calls Corsi a "world renowned author" and says WND "competes nationally and internationally" with Esquire.
The lawsuit claims that unnamed stores started to take copies of the WND-published book Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President off the shelves after Esquire published a satirical story that said Farah was recalling the book because President Barack Obama released a copy of his long-form birth certificate.
Both plaintiffs are also upset over a comment Warren gave to the Daily Caller, calling Farah and Corsi "execrable piece of shit." Farah did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Meanwhile, in other literary news:
Best-selling author Sarah Palin offered fans seeking her autograph one for the price of two.
According to the book-signing event's rules, Palin fans had to buy Bristol's book in order to get Sarah to sign one of her two books, "America by Heart" or "Going Rogue." [...]
Hundreds of people wound through the mall's rotunda, waiting to get up close and personal with the Palins. Rod Flohr of Plymouth had been waiting for his chance before the sun rose Wednesday, arriving at the mall at 4:30 a.m. to ensure he wouldn't be squeezed out by crowds.
But there were no overwhelming crowds; all those who came got through the line during the two-hour event. The Palins signed about 700 books, but mall officials estimated that 1,500 people attended the event -- some merely strolling by and stopping to gaze over the rotunda railing.
And, finally:
After being attacked by wine-wielding liberals in New York City's Bryant Park, Glenn Beck packed up his blackboard and prepared to head for the safety of Texas.
Beck has been planning on leaving New York for a while now, though he only just sold his Connecticut home a few months ago. So the Bryant Park movie disaster wasn't the express reason he's leaving, but I'm sure it's a small part of the bigger why. Everybody's mean to Glenn Beck, so Glenn Beck's leaving.
For $20,000 a month, this Texas pad had better be a well-fortified compound, the better to protect Beck and his kin when the marauding hordes of Jew-hippies come for his gold. (And they will come for his gold.) It's hard to say exactly what the house will look like when Beck inhabits it. These images are obviously a real estate agent's staging work, we see none of Beck's elephant leather furniture here, and anyway the whole place will be structurally different once Beck builds his traditional protection wall and hollows out a holy water-filled "Rapture Tank" in the root cellar for when the terrible magic snake-fires, sent by his sworn enemy the great and powerful sorcerer Soros, inevitably come for him. But you can get a vague impression.
Cheers.
- Trix