Tuesday, July 13 Limbaugh Headlines

>>>George Steinbrenner: Capitalist
He made a whole lot of money for everyone around him.

>>>WaPo Bemoans: Disasters Fail to Popularize the Obama Agenda
It is a very unhappy day over at the Washington Post.
WP: Historic Spill Fails to Produce Gains
WP: Fading Embers of Obama's Coalition
WP: Confidence in Obama Reaches New Low

>>Do We Want to Go Back? Hell, Yes!
Axelrod says Americans don't want to go backwards.

>>>Now the Regime Wants to Bill BP for Psychological Counseling
Don't be surprised if the regime tries to take over BP.

>>Let's End Racial Division and Unite Around American Exceptionalism
We've had enough of the left's criminal efforts to divide.

>>>NAALCP Accuses Tea Party of Wanting to Lynch Obama, Holder
If this really happened, we'd see it all over the media.

>>>Why So Miserable, Mrs. Obama?
Your husband promised to right all the wrongs.

>>>More From the New Black Panthers
Malik Zulu Shabazz and King Samir Shabazz are back.

Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page
» They're Not Surprised! Job Openings Drop in May
» Consumer Gloom at Highest Level Since February
» Regime Throws NASA Administrator Under the Bus
» Small Biz Optimism Index Fell 3.2 Points in June
» Heritage: Obama Regime Blocks Media from Oil Spill
» Study: Belly Buttons, Race Key to Success in Sport
» Were All Those Toyota Crashes Trumped Up?

>>>Extremely Excited Wolf Blitzer Heralds Arrival of Castro on CNN
You gotta hear this. Wolf has never been so excited.

Selected Rush Quotes From Tuesday (from his website)

The United States did not invent slavery. The United States invented freedom. Someone name me another country on earth that fought a civil war to make men equal. "

"For the first time in over 200 years a black man runs the country, his wife, a black woman, is first lady. Nobody ever thought that day would happen, certainly not 20 or 30 years ago, and here it has happened, and yet the rancor, the anger, the outrage, the divisions in the country are greater than ever."

"When the left shout 'Racist!' that's just another way they say, 'Shut up!'"

"I don't want a divided country. I want the greatest damn country on the face of the earth. I want everybody in this country to be proud and love the fact that they're Americans."

Tuesday, July 13 News headlines

And I see that after a couple of years of keeping the same format, which I liked, today Yahoo News has decided to change everything around. There news page is filled with titles and articles rather than titles only.

So that will make it all the more time consuming to compile this page every day. Damn it!

News
--Majority of Americans lack faith in Obama: poll Reuters – Tue Jul 13, 12:58 am ET
--Opinion poll: Public sides with Arizona over US on new immigration law The Christian Science Monitor – Mon Jul 12, 4:01 pm ET
--NRA takes flak for ties with left Politico – Mon Jul 12, 5:36 am ET
--Palin's clout narrows as primaries wind down CQ Politics.com – Mon Jul 12, 11:07 pm ET
--Bush's boat runs aground on beach in Maine AP – 2 hrs 29 mins ago
--Amazon storm killed half a billion trees, study reveals LiveScience.com – 39 mins ago
--Skydiver plans record-breaking supersonic space jump SPACE.com – 49 mins ago

Most Popular (being emailed or viewed)
--Majority of Americans lack faith in Obama: poll
--Limbaugh sells NYC digs for $11.5 million
--Vitamin D levels linked to Parkinson's disease risk
--17 dead, 44 missing as landslides hit China towns
--Belly-buttons key to success in sport: study

World News
--US trade deficit widens to $42.3 billion in May 44 mins ago
--French parliament set to approve ban on face veils 1 hr 22 mins ago
--Missing Iranian scientist surfaces in Washington 50 mins ago
--17 dead, 44 missing as landslides hit China towns Tue Jul 13, 6:16 am ET

Local news, Sunnyvale, California
--Peninsula police: Phony radio traffic putting safety at risk Tue Jul 13, 5:13 am ET
--Meg Whitman's investment in top strategist's movie firm raises eyebrows Tue Jul 13, 5:13 am ET
--San Jose: Boy killed in Highway 101 truck crash; driver held on suspicion of DUI Mon Jul 12, 10:28 pm ET
--Judge orders Santa Cruz hoteliers to pay city more than $800K in back taxes Mon Jul 12, 9:28 pm ET
--Department of Energy awards $92 million in clean-tech grants Mon Jul 12, 9:13 pm ET

Local News, Norfolk, VA
--N.C. city eases permitting to recharge electric cars 10 mins ago
--Va. energy projects get federal funding Tue Jul 13, 6:00 am ET
--McDonnell reverses state bottled-water ban Tue Jul 13, 5:16 am ET
--Mathews increasing protection for lighthouse Tue Jul 13, 5:15 am ET
--Plan envisions 200 homes at old Cradock High site Tue Jul 13, 4:00 am ET

Local news, NY, NY
--Anais Fernandez, 16, dies after alleged drinking binge; neighborhood distraught Tue Jul 13, 3:12 am ET
--Locals wait in line for an hour to get a bite of 'the best burger in the city' new at Shake Shack Mon Jul 12, 11:50 pm ET
--Mansion home of Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks raises ethical and legal questions Mon Jul 12, 11:50 pm ET
--Lone bedbug sends Kings County Hospital ER into fumigation lockdown Mon Jul 12, 5:07 pm ETGov.
--Paterson sets up special pardon review panel for noncitizens with criminal convictions Mon Jul 12, 4:45 pm ET

My Monday Comments: Rush Limbaugh A Racist?

I was listening to Rush's program last week when he quoted a black woman political columnist, Cynthia Tucker , who pointed out that Michael Steele (chairman of the RNC) would not only have been fired if he hadn't been black, but that he never would have been hired if he hadn't been black.

Rush then went on to point out that the same could be said of Obama. (And it's true. Take Obama's race away from him, and what other qualifications did he have to be president?)

But when the "mainstream media" as Rush calls them, talked about Rush's quote, they ignored the first part of the quote - what Cynthia Tucker had said, and to what Rush was responding to, and only gave the last bit of it, which is where Rush says that if Obama hadn't been black, he'd be running a popcorn stand now.

Here's the quote from his program -- today, in which he points out what the media had done.

RUSH: This was on CNN's Reliable Sources yesterday morning.

KURTZ: Now, Rush Limbaugh also loves to stir controversy, by design. And this week, he talked about the president and made a bit of news. Let's take a listen.

RUSH ARCHIVE: ....That's exactly the same thing you could say about Obama. He wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black. Somebody asked me over the weekend why does somebody earn a lot of money, have a lot of money? I said because he's black. If Obama weren't black, he'd be a tour guide in Honolulu or he'd be teaching Saul Alinsky constitutional law or lecturing on it in Chicago.

RUSH: Now, those of you who were listening last week who heard that know full well that that's the second half of something I said. You hear how this started. "That's exactly the same thing you could say about Obama." Who am I talking about there? As you'll hear in a moment I was talking about Cynthia Tucker as she was making racist comments about Michael Steele. Let's keep going with the audio. Howard Kurtz then talks to political columnist Roger Simon about me and my remark about Obama.

KURTZ: And of course here we are talking about Rush, but did you find those comments to be more than just the usual Limbaugh rhetoric?

SIMON: Meaning did I find them to be racist and repugnant? Yeah, I found them to be racist and repugnant.

RUSH: And then Howard Kurtz finally says, "Roger, let's keep going. Why do you think they were racist?"

KURTZ: Why racist? Can a case be made just on part of this that if Obama was a white freshman senator he wouldn't have beaten Hillary for the nomination?

SIMON: I think anyone who beat Hillary for the nomination had something going for him besides race. Let's be fair, his race was not going for him. We only said that after he won. He had to win in states where there was almost no black population. If he had lost in Iowa, the first Democratic contest, he would have been through. There are no black people in Iowa. He convinced white people that he really was an agent of change.

RUSH: This is not altogether true, Mr. Simon. We're now learning from Gina Gaston who is a Democrat activist -- this was on Fox News Sunday yesterday morning -- she started out putting a documentary together to prove there wasn't any voter fraud in the Democrat primaries of 2008 and she found out there was all kinds of Democrat voter fraud on the part of the Obama campaign, and specifically, Mr. Simon, in Iowa. Ms. Gaston documents that the Obama people locked the Hillary people out of the cauci locations. They simply locked the doors. Everybody was, "How the hell did Obama pull off this Iowa caucus thing?" Because that's the launch and Mr. Simon here mentions it, and Ms. Gaston, who says she can't get coverage of her documentary anywhere but on, of all places, Fox News. She recounts all kinds of voter fraud on the part of the Obama campaign aimed at Mrs. Clinton. And Iowa was one of those places.


So Kurtz says, "Why racist? Can't a case be made just on part of this that if Obama was a white freshman senator, he wouldn't have beaten Hillary for the nomination?" Now, what spawned all of this? This is where I'm actually kind of surprised at Howard Kurtz because whenever the media has joined these out of context, erroneous, made-up narratives on how I'm a racist, Kurtz has never done that. Now all of a sudden he airs a piece, but what did he leave out? Let's go back, cut 11 here that I played, it starts with me saying, "That's exactly the same thing you could say about Obama." So obviously I'm responding to something, but Kurtz either knew it and ignored it or didn't know it and got befuddled by one of the CNN producers. Here is the entire sound bite from last Tuesday, and you will hear that a full 65% of this sound bite was not aired by Howard Kurtz.

RUSH: Cynthia Tucker, ABC's This Week Sunday roundtable, they discussed Michael Steele. And, by the way, this woman is the editorial director of the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation, and she has been for a long, long time. Cynthia, you once called Michael Steele an affirmative action hire gone bad. What is your take -- by the way, she can say this because she's African-American. Here's what she said.

TUCKER: Michael Steele is a self-aggrandizing, gaffe-prone incompetent who would have been fired a long time ago were he not black. Of course the irony is that he never would have been voted in as chairman of the Republican Party were he not black.

RUSH ARCHIVE: Same with Obama.

TUCKER: It is very ironic --

RUSH ARCHIVE: Stop the tape just a second. That's exactly the same thing you could say about Obama. He wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black. Somebody asked me over the weekend why does somebody earn a lot money, have a lot money, I said because she's black. It was Oprah. No, it can't be. Yes, it is. There's a lot of guilt out there, let's show we're not racists, we'll make this person wealthy and big and famous and so forth.

RUSH: So a full 65% of that sound bite didn't air on CNN. And you know they had it because they had to edit it. Same with Obama. Same with Obama. You heard Cynthia Tucker, Michael Steele wouldn't be where he is if he weren't black. So I simply said, "Yeah, you could say the same thing about Obama." But they at CNN present this as though I originated the thought.

Cynthia Tucker
From Wikipedia:
Cynthia Tucker (born 1955 in Monroeville, Alabama) is a progressive American syndicated columnist. She was recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2007 "for her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community". She was a Pulitzer-nominated finalist in 2004 and 2006.

Biography
Tucker was born in 1955 in Monroeville, Alabama in the age of segregation; she did not attend an integrated school until she was a junior in high school. She then attended Auburn University where she majored in English and journalism and wrote for the student newspaper, The Plainsman. After graduation in 1976, she applied for a job at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) where she was hired as a reporter. In 1980, she left Atlanta and the AJC for a job at the The Philadelphia Inquirer. Shortly thereafter, Tucker decided that she wanted to be a foreign correspondent in Africa, but the Inquirer considered her too inexperienced for the assignment. Tucker set out on her own, traveling around Africa and freelancing for six months. She then returned to Atlanta, where she was rehired as a columnist by the AJC.

Tucker was selected as Nieman Fellow by Harvard University in 1988. She was promoted to her current position as editorial page editor of the AJC in 1990. In 1993, the National Women’s Political Caucus awarded Tucker their Exceptional Merit Media Award. In 2005, Tucker received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College.

Tucker currently blogs regularly and writes two columns each week. They appear on Wednesdays and Sundays. Her columns are further syndicated to over 40 U.S. newspapers and appear on the AJC's website. Those columns earned her nominations for the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004 and 2006 before her eventual win in 2007.

In July 2009, Tucker moved to Washington, D.C. as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's political columnist.

Monday, July 12 headlines from RushLimbaugh.com

>>Obama Regime Sets Up to Dump Disaster on GOP Congress in 2011
Republicans had better be prepared for this scenario.


>>Politico: Libs Analyze Their Obama "Despair"
Gibbs: GOP Could Win House in November

>>Media Plays Mel Gibson Audio, But Not New Black Panther Tapes
Who's more important? Obama's allies or an actor?

>>Dem Govs: AZ Lawsuit is "Toxic"
Amnesty is another issue the GOP better pounce on.

>>Gibbs on Moratorium, Business
WH briefer stays on regime message: anti-prosperity.

>>Another Dem Loses it at Town Hall
Dems are freaking out at town halls across the nation.
YouTube: Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX) at Town Hall

>>>It's There for the Picking, GOP!
Just be conservative and do not go the RINO route.

>>Setting Record Straight on Obama and Race for Howard Kurtz of CNN
Gerry Ferraro said the very same thing about Obama.
LeBron Made the Patriotic Decision
James will be contributing to the economy of Florida.
Heritage Foundation: LeBron's Tax Decision

>>Where is Bill Clinton? Wife of Oil Executive Injured in Mail Bombing
It's a case of actual leftist-inspired domestic terrorism.
ABC: Neighbors on Edge After Box Explodes

Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page
» Dems Bash GOP for Meeting with Business Leaders
» NAALCP Condemns BP and Tea Party for Racism
» Felon Voting May Have Put Stuart Smalley Over Top
» Democrat Film Documents Obama Voter Fraud

>>>Bush's Debt vs. Democrat Debt

>>>The Pelosi/Obama deficit dwarfs Bush's spending.

July 12 Headlines from Michael Savage

Michael Savage's website (http://michaelsavage.com) typically does a "news roll" - they put new news articles on the top and old news goes to the bottom until it disappears.

Here are the headlines for July 12 (and sometimes the headlines don't accurately reflect what's in the article being linked to):

--Holder questions death penalty for Sept. 11 mastermind
--Obama slips La Raza director intotop White House immigration job
--New Yorkers back Arizona in immigration fight vs. Obama
--Obama illegal worker plan leaves immigrants jobless, but still in U.S.
--Obama's socialist Medicare czar: 'Health care is redistribution'
--Obama's anti-Israel policies put Jewish voters on edge
--Two-faced Obama: Killing jobs during 'recovery summer'
--Labor: $7 billion in overpayments to unemployed
--Clintons shopping for $11-million mansion
--Jewish pol marries Muslim gal; with Bill Clinton officiating
--Obama foreign policy: Muslim science fiction
--Taxpayers fork out $6.5 billion to fund New York City employee pensions
--Presbyterians call for end to Israel aid
--Attention-deficit payout: Mom wins $30G from state for private school
--Justice Ginsburg: Roe will hold
--KAGAN THE PAGAN
--U.K. health care slashing bureaucrats in biggest revolution for 60 years
--Flying to the moon on feel-good pills
--China renews Google license amid conflict over censorship
--1st grade: Perfect time to teach homosexuality?
--Mobster Mickey Spillane's son falls to death from his apartment
--Baghdad police kill 58,000 dogs in 3 months
--An expert's view of gold

Monday, July 12 News headlines

Each day, I'll present news headlines from various media. Just the headlines. No links. Purpose: a snapshot look at important things going on in the world...depending on the particular news media's version of important.

Yahoo News

News
--BP: New cap will be on busted well later today The oil spill
--Roman Polanski free, Swiss reject U.S. extradition request
--Blagojevich on trial: Profane outbursts and shakedowns
--Analysis: How 2 million Americans lost jobless benefits
--Obama's national debt commission paints a gloomy picture
--Red hot chili peppers stored in cool Arctic 'doomsday vault'

World
--Fidel Castro to appear on Cuban television program
--Polanski free, Swiss reject US extradition request
--Ugandan toll in World Cup bombings rises to 74
--Russian curators sentenced but not imprisoned
--Afghan civilian deaths rise, but NATO kills fewer
--Zimbabwe diamond-crime whistleblower freed on bail
--Chinese officials must report personal assets
--NKorea, US-led UN Command to meet over sinking
--Nigeria: Gunmen kidnap 3 local journalists
--Iraq parliament session delayed over govt impasse

New York Local News
--Burger lovers rejoice! Minichain Shake… - New York D…
--Daily News' Steiner Sports Sweepstakes… - New York D…
--Cheers from the Spanish, tears from the… - New York D…
--Mourning in Hell’s Kitchen for Bobby… - N.Y. Times
--A Hole in the Bar Where the Cigarette… - N.Y. Times
--New Jersey Governor Defies Political… - N.Y. Times
--Bronx Teen Allegedly Kills Man Over Cable… - CBS 2
--Con Ed Forced To Cut Power To Brooklyn Again - CBS 2
--Security Guards Posted At Buffalo City Pools - CBS 2

Los Angeles Local News
--Schuller is not retiring as pastor, his… - L.A. Times
--Big money from special interests attempts… - L.A. Times
--Marine hero's brother makes good on his… - L.A. Times
--Uncle of BART shooting victim rejects… - Los Angele…
--In-home workers under scrutiny - Los Angele…
--LAPD gives marines street smarts for… - Los Angele…
--Ontario Airport Janitor Arrested For… - CBS 2/KCAL…
--Rev. Schuller's Daughter To Take Lead… - CBS 2/KCAL…
--Boy Accidently Shoots, Kills 2-Year-Old… - CBS 2/KCAL…

Minneapolis, MN Local News
--1 dead in highway crash near Le Sueur - Star Tribune
--ID released of man slain outside NE.… - Star Tribu…
--Nurses, Duluth hospitals negotiate contract - Star Tribu…
--Trial date set for champion auctioneer… - Pioneer Pr…
--Changes coming for 715 area code - Pioneer Press
--Mankato teen pleads guilty to setting up… - Pioneer Pr…
--Nurses To Picket In Duluth - WCCOT
--rial Date Set In Wishek Killing - WCCO
--Gildea To Be Sworn In As 22nd Minn. Chief… - WCCO

Finance News
--Hugh Hefner offers to take Playboy private
--Avon buys Silpada for $650 million
--Stocks set to slide to kick off week
--Aon agrees to buy Hewitt for $4.9 billion
--More Americans' credit scores sink to new lows
--BP: New cap will be on busted well later today
--Johnson & Johnson paying $480 million for Micrus
--FDA to review first of 3 new weight loss drugs
--Weyerhaeuser to pay $5.6 billion to shareholders
--BP says oil spill costs climb to $3.5 billion

History Monday: The Declaration of Independence

Have you read it? Can you quote the whole thing? (Most people who learn any type of hisotorical document can quote the first paragraph or so, but never the whole thing....)

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton