It was a most unusual Fourth of July holiday.While we, the American people, were celebrating the passage of the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July, 1776, our only nationally-elected leaders, the President and Vice-President, seem to have forgotten its meaning."We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."On this year's Fourth of July, the clerics in Iran's holy city of Qum, defied that country's authoritarian regime and "called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate."   Meanwhile, as Iranians--even many of its mullahs--struggled to nurture democracy, the President of the United States stayed mute."That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"On...(Read Full Post)