America turns 250 today. Here's how you defend it.

$250 for the 250th, or full membership for $36 before midnight Sunday.

Two hundred and fifty years ago today, a group of colonists did something genuinely reckless.

They put their names on a document telling the most powerful empire on earth to go to hell. They pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor—and they meant it literally, because if the revolution failed, King George was going to hang every last o…