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The events that made all our other holidays possible.
Veteran's Day had its origin at the end of World War I in 1918, a conflict so horrendous that it was dubbed "the Great War" or "the war to end all wars," with the United States playing the decisive role in the Allied powers final victory.
America's representative form of constitutional democracy is on the verge of breaking down because of political corruption at the highest levels and the concurrent decline in civility and growing mob behavior.
Was Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's testimony against Judge Brett Kavanaugh a total con job? It had all the earmarks of an 11th-hour ambush, facilitated by the irrelevance of the lack of corroborating evidence, a predictable presumption of guilt ginned up by a media that feeds sensationalism and mob rule, and the calculated protection of the impenetrable shield of the #MeToo movement. It almost worked.
In the 1985 classic American science fiction film "Back to the Future," Marty McFly travels back in time in a DeLorean time machine, and with the help of its inventor, the eccentric scientist "Doc," history gets repaired so that when McFly returns to the present he finds healthy relations restored, providing optimism for the future and a happy ending. As a film genre, science fiction is unique in presenting an alternate reality that sometimes reveals startling insight into solutions for the human dilemma.
July 4th is a generally more festive American holiday — with cookouts, parades, parties and fireworks — than other patriotic holidays, such as Memorial Day or Veterans Day.
Memorial Day had its origin as Decoration Day following the Civil War, but it only became an official federal holiday to honor those who lost their lives while serving in the U.S. armed forces in 1971.
Preoccupation with form over substance combined with denial and avoidance behavior are the chief causal factors for human failure — from the individual and family right up to the national level.
Of all holidays, Easter is the one that celebrates a single event that transformed the world forever. There are many religions with different founders, prophets and teachers going back thousands of years, but only one of them has a founder who professed to be the messiah — the son of God who could save mankind.
The Valentine's Day massacre at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was the latest in a series of mass school shootings dating back to the Columbine, Colorado, shooting in 1999. Evoking shock, these crimes inevitably prompt a call to pray for the victims and their families.
Sarbanes-Oxley promotes inequality by discouraging companies from going or remaining public.
Subverting the electoral process: Who will dare prosecute the Ruling Class responsible?
It's baffling that political bias can obviate empirical evidence and common sense.
Few would deny that the ascendance of the United States from colonial poverty to the world's top economic and military superpower in just 200 years is largely attributable to principles and rule of law in our founding documents enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
For Christians, Christmas is a unique time of joy associated with the birth of the savior Jesus, whose life, death and resurrection makes possible a personal and intimate relationship with God. Jesus was born a Jew, and his teachings were built on the foundation of the Torah and the Old Testament. And so it is that Christians and Jews have much in common and share a natural mutual affinity.
When Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the church door in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1517, 500 years ago this week, he probably had no idea what forces he was unleashing. Although his intention was to spur reform within the Catholic Church rather than breaking off and starting a new church, he ended up accomplishing both.
Columbus Day was originally established as a national holiday by FDR in 1937 to commemorate Christopher Columbus who discovered the New World on Oct. 12, 1492 when he made landfall on what is now known as San Salvador in the Bahama Islands.
