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This week is Fourth of July week, when many Americans, including the Huckabee Post staffers, are taking a break. Don’t worry, we’ve prepared plenty of material in advance for you. And as always, if anything major happens in the news, we’ll drop our corn dogs and rush back to our keyboards to report it (fortunately, World War III breaking out suddenly seems a lot less likely.)
As a reminder the Morning Edition delivers Monday - Saturday.
There is no Prayer Tree today.
Texas Flooding
Please unite in prayer for the victims of the horrible flooding in Central Texas. Please wrap the missing in a hedge of protection and bring comfort and peace to their families.
A “Huckabee” Fix
On this very special holiday weekend, let’s take a look back to 2022, and Amb. Huckabee’s monologue on what the 4th of July is really about…
And what other song could we possibly revisit than this? From the 2021 Fourth of July episode, here’s “God Bless the USA” by Lee Greenwood...
Something to read while you’re still in a patriotic mood following the Fourth of July fireworks:
Don Surber looks at how President Trump has brought back the economy, ended illegal immigration, started forcing illegal aliens out of the USA, made major tax cuts while increasing government revenue to pay down the debt, ended Iran’s nuclear threat, defunded Planned Parenthood (which has killed more people than Iran) and gutted the corrupt system that funded Democrats with our tax dollars – all in his first six months, and much of it in the past week.
Sample quote:
“(Biden) hired 87,000 IRS agents to go after Americans. Trump’s hiring 10,000 ICE officers to go after illegal aliens.”
He also cites one X user who put it eloquently: Trump has “completely destroyed Obama and his entire legacy, and on the eve of the 250th Fourth of July no less. God bless America!” Trump could even brag that he brought this reclamation project in a year ahead of schedule.
And now, here are some more fireworks, courtesy of Kurt Schlichter and Derek Hunter. Also contains plenty of good red meat for your barbecues…
Must-Read
This column by Alex McFarland at Townhall.com is a good primer for all the Americans who claim not to feel patriotic, especially the young ones who’ve been criminally miseducated by their America-hating teachers.
Nice work
Congratulations to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for proving that not only is his party a useless impediment to American renewal, he’s also an annoying, hypocritical, time-wasting blowhard. And that’s just what his own Democratic colleagues are privately saying about him.
A Disconnected Media is Trying to Sell Us a Bill of Goods
A Classic Essay by Gov. Mike Huckabee
How can we all be so connected, and our government be so disconnected?
One of the benefits of living in the 21st century is that thanks to jet travel and the Internet, I constantly talk to Americans from every state and every walk of life. And believe me, they are not shy about sharing their opinions. It gives me a perspective that I wish more of our politicians and media people inside the Beltway Bubble could experience.
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In 2022, a Pew Research survey found that 65% of journalists thought the news media was doing a good job of covering the important stories of the day and getting them accurate, while only 35% of the public agreed. With all we’ve recently discovered about the promotion of anti-Trump fake news and the burying of negative Biden/Harris news, those trust numbers are probably so far apart today that they can’t even see each other.
If we had to explain that yawning gap between the media’s public approval and its self-approval in one word, it would be “disconnection” (although we would accept “narcissism.”) There’s never been a time when the media was so out of touch with the people they’re supposed to be serving. You’d think the shock they experienced on Election night 2016 when Trump walloped the unbeatable Hillary Clinton would’ve caused them to reflect a bit on their smug assumptions and make some changes. Instead, they only doubled down on the demonizing of people they never talk to.
They really believed in 2016 that when voters demanded “change,” they wanted bigger deficits and a bloated, more powerful regulatory state. Trust us, they did not. And they didn’t think they were getting that when they voted for Biden, either. He was sold as the “nice, moderate centrist” who was going to “restore normality” and unite us all. Instead, we got the most radical agenda in history shoved down our throats by Biden’s autopen jockeys, and anyone who objected was censored, demonized and even indicted and railroaded into prison. Voters restored Trump to power not only because Biden’s policies made their lives much harder but because many believed they were the victims of a massive bait-and-switch con. And they were.
If you ask most Americans what they want from government, it’s not to have every aspect of their lives regulated and “transformed,” including those that worked a lot better before the government “improved” them. They don’t want 2,000-page bills nobody’s read, or bureaucrats telling them which doctor they can see or how much money they’re allowed to make.
The list of what most Americans say they want from government is actually pretty short: national defense, secure borders, safe streets; smooth highways; health care for veterans, seniors, poor children and the disabled (all those who genuinely can’t help themselves); good schools, firefighters and (yes) police – now more than ever. And it would be nice if the trash were picked up on time. That’s about it. All things you no longer find in any Democrat-run city or state.
Despite our lack of asking for it, the government finds so many ways to meddle in our lives that federal, state and local government spending combined now represents 37.5% of America’s entire gross domestic product (after nearly reaching 45% during the pandemic.) And in some big cities, they don’t pick up the garbage at all. They just let people live in it.
In poll after poll, despite claims that socialism is rising in popularity, most Americans say they want less government and less spending. Even those who say they want government handouts like “Medicare For All” quickly change their tunes when told what it will do to their tax bills and quality of services. They don’t give a hoot what the talking heads or the endlessly-surprised economists or the “too-big-to-fail” Wall Street failures say: most people just want government out of their lives, out of their wallets and out of their way.
Sadly, whenever political candidates support that philosophy, their opponents and the media paint them as cold-hearted and uncaring. Compassion has been redefined as the willingness to spend limitless amounts of other people’s money, including maxing out future generations’ credit cards without their permission. The media also devote almost no time to examining political philosophies and a lot of time to gotcha games, gaffes, fake news and who’s ahead in the horse race.
But the horse is now out of the barn. For eight years under Obama, Americans experienced firsthand the results of so-called “progressive” policies. Government out of control, a health care boondoggle two-thirds of us didn’t want, and the economy still struggling long after it should’ve roared back.
The Election of 2016 was not a surprise to us. We predicted it months in advance because, unlike so many people who claim to represent or report on the American people, we actually talk to – and more importantly, listen to and live among – working Americans. Things were turning around quite well before the pandemic artificially shut down the economy and people let the media bamboozle them into blaming Trump and thinking they’d be bringing back moderation and “normality” if they elected Biden.
Instead, they found themselves stuck with a combination of Obama and Jimmy Carter times 10. This wasn’t what they voted for, but they got it good and hard. We saw the result in the 2024 election. Yet the same Democrats who just finished presiding over four years of open borders, rampant crime, high inflation, out-of-control government and foreign policy disasters immediately began criticizing everything Trump did to fix it, as if they had a single clue.
We predict that, despite the media’s best efforts to bamboozle us, politicians who try to sell Americans on socialistic, big government policies will eventually fail, for the same reason that a used car salesman has a hard time selling a lemon to the same customer twice. Those politicians secretly know it, too; hence their desperation to take over elections so they can control the results, and to rig the government through schemes like flooding the nation with illegal immigrants and counting them in the Census, eliminating the Electoral College and the Senate filibuster (but only when they hold the Senate) and stacking the Supreme Court. They claim to be protecting “our democracy” while trying to silence and neuter all political opposition. They have to kill democracy to save it.
We also predict that politicians who are elected on a promise not to “fundamentally transform” America will remain in office only as long as they remember that Americans did not elect them to transform the United States into Venezuela.
Keep Your Dirty Laundry Out of Sight and Off the Internet
A Classic Essay by Gov. Mike Huckabee
There’s an old expression: “Don’t air your dirty laundry in public.” It doesn't make sense to many young Americans, partly because thanks to social media, they have no concept of personal privacy anymore, or of self-censoring before blurting out the first angry, ill-considered comment that comes to mind. But it also doesn’t make sense to them because most of them never hung their laundry on a clothesline in their backyard.
In the pre-electric dryer days, a clothesline in the yard was as much a given as a roof on the house or gravy on the potatoes. But frankly, the part about airing “dirty” laundry never made sense because no one would place dirty laundry on the line — the whole point was to place the freshly-washed and clean laundry on the clothesline so it would dry and be sanitized by the sun.
There were few secrets in a neighborhood where people put their underwear on a clothesline for the world to see, and whose houses had open windows with screens that kept out flies and mosquitoes, but also let the conversations inside be heard outside. Since we could get only three channels on the old black-and-white TV on a good day off the rooftop antenna, when TV was boring, one could just sit near a window and catch up on what the neighbors were saying.
And if they were on the phone, we could still keep up because in the days before the government monitored all our social media posts and taped our every call, most of us had “party lines” for phone service. That meant that several families in the neighborhood shared a line. Each family had a distinct ring so we knew whether to pick up officially or just pick up and listen in without saying anything. Party lines were much cheaper than private lines, so naturally, we had one.
In the summer, when it was too hot to sit indoors on an August night in Arkansas until well after sundown, most folks would take to the front porch. The porch usually had some chairs, a ceiling fan of some kind, and ideally a porch swing hung from the rafters or ceiling of the porch. If you were lucky, the porch was screened, but if not, there would be several flyswatters and everyone took turns swatting at flies and mosquitoes or wasps or yellow jackets. If insect repellent products like OFF! had been invented, we certainly couldn’t afford to buy them, and a flyswatter would last for several summers and usually was given for free at the hardware store when you bought some stuff. I don't think we ever had a flyswatter at my house that didn't remind us that we could buy lumber or tools at Duffy Hardware. And alI of our yardsticks (three-foot type) and twelve-inch rulers let us know that Lagrone Williams Hardware had paint and pots and pans.
As we sat on the front porch, it was a time to talk and hear stories about the “good ol’ days” from my relatives that didn’t seem all that good to me given the way they described the hardships of the Depression and World War II. We'd break out guitars and play music and hear the same old family stories that we'd all heard a thousand times before. In the sweltering hot nights of the summer, everyone who wasn't playing a musical instrument had to shell purple hull and black-eyed peas that had been bought that day from the back of a farmer's truck that would pass through the neighborhood selling peas by the bushel. Shelling peas made one's fingers turn purple so I hated shelling peas, and thus one of my many reasons for learning to play the guitar.
Sometimes the neighbors or relatives came to sit on the porch and sometimes when things were quiet on our porch, we just listened to what the neighbors were saying on theirs. Many nights, it was for sure better than TV.
The culture I grew up in created a sense of community, but also a sense of accountability. The openness of our lives with our laundry visible to God and all His creation, and conversations being heard without the whiz-bang electronic surveillance devices we would come to despise, meant that we lived with our families but within a neighborhood and community. And out of a combination of courtesy, old-fashioned manners and the need to survive by having neighbors we could count on, we didn't talk “ugly” about neighbors too much. There was a good chance they could hear us. That meant they’d never help us shell our peas again.
Also something to consider before hitting “send” on an angry, threatening tweet.
The Fourth of July: Freedom from Government
In a New York Post opinion piece by John Stossel, he argues that the essence of the Fourth of July is not merely independence from a foreign power but the protection from governmental overreach.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/03/opinion/the-fourth-of-july-mean-freedom-particularly-from-government/
Bee Time
It’s Saturday, so time to see how the Babylon Bee dealt with one of the most consequential news weeks in history…
https://babylonbee.com/news/millions-reported-dead-as-big-beautiful-bill-passes
https://babylonbee.com/news/wail-of-agony-heard-from-satans-office-as-planned-parenthood-defunded
https://babylonbee.com/news/sad-great-white-shark-stripped-of-upenn-womens-swimming-title
https://babylonbee.com/news/district-court-issues-nationwide-injunction-on-supreme-court-ruling
https://babylonbee.com/news/gavin-newsom-sues-gavin-newsom-for-ruining-his-political-career
https://babylonbee.com/news/jeff-bezoss-wedding-100-funded-by-your-wifes-amazon-purchases
https://babylonbee.com/news/nation-celebrates-first-anniversary-of-biden-announcing-we-beat-medicare
https://babylonbee.com/news/diddy-celebrates-acquittal-with-massive-freak-off
Finally, one Scotty Kilmer would love: https://babylonbee.com/news/ford-debuts-worlds-first-autonomous-car-to-leave-factory-and-drive-straight-to-shop-for-repairs
Yes, in many ways those were the good old days when the clothes hung on the line. I do like my dryer however. Practically everyone I knew went to places of worship. Many might have been hypocrites but they at least knew they were doing wrong. Not so good was segregation. That was an awful wrong. Hopefully we have taken steps to right that one although the left seems to want it back.
It’s nice to have a Pres. in office who knows what he is sighing. I am just grateful that we did not have a truly major crisis when we virtually had a committee running the country.
Having given it some thought, I think we know what kind of people the Biden’s are simply by the way they treated their granddaughter. That says a great deal about character.
As for Planned Parenthood, girls, women you do not need to prove your love. Take control of your lives and you won’t have need of this organization. It’s not that guys are bad, they are just more driven and they do not bear, no pun intended, the consequences.
TY AMB Huckabee ... Sitting on the front porch is life at its best. Listening to the wind chimes, sitting in a swing or rocking chair, a faint breeze blowing and solving all the problems in the world. My how the old days give me great reflection. Very fond memories. Appreciate the remembrance. MAGA