NEWT GINGRICH: The Declaration still terrifies socialists and tyrants, here and abroad

This Fourth of July matters more than most for three reasons.

First, it is the historic 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The Declaration is the most radical political document ever written. It challenged millennia of thought about monarchs having rights and commoners being mere subjects, peasants, or even slaves. Suddenly, people on the edge of a continent decided that they would challenge the entire system that dominated their world. Kings, czars...