Daily Business Report: July 3, 2026
By Katharine Lee Bates
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
The Agrarian Statesman: Victor Davis Hanson on Thomas Jefferson
By Victor Davis Hanson | Freedom Frequency
Thomas Jefferson reportedly knew five foreign languages and studied Latin and Greek authors every day. He was widely read in the Enlightenment philosophers of Europe, and a student of ancient and modern constitutional history—knowledge that served as a foundation for his authorship of the Declaration of Independence and his call for the addition of a Bill of Rights to the Constitution.
Even today, conservatives praise his distrust of overweening government, his love of liberty, and his sense of the need to respect states’ rights, while liberals, at least until recently, have seen him as the original defender of free speech and expression, and as the seminal civil libertarian.
Yet if the polymath and renaissance man Jefferson was perhaps the most brilliant of the founding fathers, he was also surely the most complex, conflicted, and controversial.
The Architect of American Order: Condoleezza Rice on Alexander Hamilton
by Condoleezza Rice | Freedom Frequency
Americans are known for our impatience. As a nation, we have always lived in the future, not the past. However, sometimes that impatience can overreach and mistake motion for wisdom. Yet even then it reflects something deeply rooted in our national character: a belief that we are the masters of our own destiny. The future is not simply inherited from circumstance; it is something we are responsible for shaping.
When I think about that instinct in our founding, I find myself returning again and again to Alexander Hamilton.
Hamilton is not an uncomplicated figure. While he was admired for his brilliance, his peers also found him to be arrogant, stubborn, and excessively combative. Even now, he provokes arguments about power, finance, democracy, ambition, and the role of government itself. He wrote with urgency because he believed our young republic stood much closer to failure than many of his contemporaries cared to admit.
