By JACKIE TAYLOR | July 1, 2026

Happy birthday, America!

Well, 250 years is close for our nation – though many say the birth of our nation was actually last year – but, this year marks the semi sesquicentennial year of the United States of America. And with that, comes Old Glory flying over our land – some of our land.

I echo these comments from Foxnews.com, “What is wrong with these people? We are just about to celebrate the 250th birthday of our country,” California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton told the California Post (after a homeowners’ association asked that the American flag be taken down from homes).

“One of the most beautiful and magnificent things about America is the way we show our love of our country together all the time. ... And now these tin-pot bureaucrats at some ridiculous HOA want to trample on our flag and stifle national pride at this of all moments? What a bunch of anti-American losers.”

He is responding to a Homeowners Association in San Marcos, Calif. that sent threatening letters to a homeowner who chose to fly the American flag on their home. According to FoxNews.com, “By May 2026, however, the HOA issued Amy and Christopher Cooke a violation notice alleging the American flag mounted outside their home violated the association’s flag policy and directing them to remove the flag mount within 15 days or face enforcement action.

“Neighbor Terri Collins also received a violation notice over the American flag displayed outside her home and said she’s prepared to fight the HOA alongside the Cookes.

Apparently, “Amy Cooke told Fox News Digital the controversy began after another resident attempted to fly a San Diego Padres flag, prompting the HOA to revisit its flag rules.

“Both American flags had been flying around here for decades without issue,” Cooke said. “The fact is it’s about the American flag, distinctly.”

What? I swear liberals all had frontal lobotomies at the same time and the repercussions of that surgery are popping out nationwide.

Our American flag is the symbol of history that can’t be torn down by some yo-ho because he doesn’t like what happened 100-plus years ago. Our history is what has shaped this country; and it will continue to shape us.

Our nation, built on free-enterprise, is in peril, though. The same idiots that want homeowners to take their American flag down, are the same people that are voting in communists to run our nation.

According to NYPost.com, “After a four-decade-long break, the Communist Party USA has picked up the hammer and sickle to resume the glorious struggle of electoral politics — and they’re already seeing success.

“Three candidates the CPUSA ran in the Nov. 4 elections this year won; in Maine, Massachusetts, and Upstate New York. That doubles the number of open Communist Party members ever elected to US public office in the Party’s 106-year history.”

The story continues, “According to one former CPUSA candidate who spoke to The Post, the Party — founded in 1919 after the Russian Revolution, which brought the first communists to power — is an actual Soviet-sympathizing, China-loving political party which believes a Marxist-Leninist one-party political structure needs to be implemented to achieve the “workers’ paradise.”

“The Communist Party believes that capitalism needs to be replaced fundamentally,” CPUSA co-chair Joe Sims said in an October interview with left wing program “The Daily Show,” calling the economic system which built the modern world and lifted billions from poverty “distasteful.”

Honestly, I think we have a bunch of spoiled brats that don’t know how to work, and the commies make it look good – don’t work, take what your neighbor has worked for. Further, don’t own that business – let the government own it and dole out equal paychecks for everyone.

I for one feel that we need another “Come to Jesus” moment with a Joseph McCarthy type event; McCarthy listed in Wikipedia with the following description, “After three largely undistinguished years in the Senate, McCarthy suddenly rose to national fame in February 1950 when he asserted in a speech that he had a list of “members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring” who were employed in the State Department. In the succeeding years, McCarthy made additional accusations of Communist infiltration into the State Department, the administration of President Harry S. Truman, the Voice of America, and the U.S. Army.”

Our nation needs to wake up to the enemy from within; I love our flag and our country. I don’t want to see it dismantled by a bunch of commie buggars bent on destruction of our land.

The only way around this is for everyday Americans to make sure and get out and vote! Sitting at home is a sure way to usher in more commies.

Happy birthday, America! I’m praying for another 250 years.