Merry Christmas – part 1
Perhaps you’ll see it often this year, but you’ve seen it now: “Jesus is the reason for the season.” I don’t know who came up with that, or when, but it is true. Christmas is named for and held in celebration of Jesus Christ. Even Wikipedia says so. Speaking of saying things, one of my […]
What Politico Missed
A few weeks ago Politico, an online magazine about things political, published an article called “What Trump Showed Us About America.” Only the opening five paragraphs were written by staff. For the rest of it they asked a question of 35 people. They didn’t ask me, and I think they missed something big, so I’m […]
Giving Thanks on Black Friday
Washington, Lincoln and Us The first official Thanksgiving Day in America was Thursday, November 26, 1789. George Washington proclaimed it so on October 3, 1789. On October 3, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation making the last Thursday of November a “day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” […]
