Here we see a nice tile roof with the felt paper underlayment beginning to fail.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/cACuzy5ZJzfKUQ7Z6

Tile roofs function well for - years, if not many decades, if the felt paper stays dry.

A National Treasure Indeed: Michael Auslin on the Declaration of Independence’s Endurance

On the eve of the 250^th anniversary of America’s founding, how has the nation’s Declaration of Independence – drafted, debated, and signed in a world shaped more by royalty than republicanism – managed to stand the test of time?

They quibbled over the language and the provisions, but in the end, America’s Founding Fathers produced a 1,320-word document establishing a newborn republic’s belief in natural rights and self-governance. Were the founders who debated and ultimately signed the Declaration of Independence true visionaries or merely smart and realpolitik enough to find a new way to express the colonists’ longstanding desires for self-governance and liberty? Michael Auslin, a historian and the Hoover Institution’s Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow, discusses his acclaimed new book National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America. Among the topics discussed: the interplay between Thomas Jefferson and the committee tasked with producing what the author calls “a big bang of declaration”; the document’s various compromises required to attain unanimous consent; how the Declaration survived future wars; plus why other nations (revolutionary France in particular) drafting their own declarations fell short of the American standard.

Recorded on June 1, 2026.

President Donald J. Trump’s 2026 State of the Union Address

February 24, 2026

Checkmate in 25 moves

Checkmate in 25 moves. 1-31-26

I’m on the white team.

 

What do you think?

1. We have all sinned and deserve God’s judgment.
2. God, the Father, sent His only Son to satisfy that judgment for those who believe in Him.
3. Jesus, the creator and eternal Son of God, who lived a sinless life, loves us so much that He died for our sins, taking the punishment that we deserve, was buried, and rose from the dead according to the Bible.
4. If you turn from your old ways and truly believe and trust this in your heart, receiving Jesus alone as your Savior, declaring, "Jesus is Lord," you will be saved from judgment and spend eternity with God in heaven.

AJ-Moon