Less government union Labor per Day, please The original meanings of many American national holidays, including tomorrow’s The holiday celebrating labor was originally celebrated on a Tuesday, but with its and other holiday’s removal to Mondays, the celebration of leisure, and especially the three-day weekend variety for federal employees, now rules the day. Most Americans will be thankful that President Barack Obama and his fellow | Read More »
Originally published January 16, 2007 in The Charlotte Observer. Achieve King’s dream with equal treatment Misguided liberal policies assume blacks are inferior victims MIKE DEVINE Special to the Observer “Daddy, why would somebody want to shoot a preacher?” That was a precocious little boy’s first reaction upon seeing the headline of The Spartanburg Herald announcing the assassination of the 39-year-old leader of the civil rights movement, | Read More »
“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” – Matthew 11:28-30 Two Thousand years ago today, The Son was separated from | Read More »
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! All Americans should celebrate the life of this great American. Below is my first column as the Conservative Voice of the Charlotte Observer, published January 16, 2007. So important have race relations been in my life that I made it the subject of my “dead-tree main stream media” debut. But first, let me add some context, four years on. | Read More »
On the 69th anniversary of the day President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said would live in infamy, let us look and see if any September 11, 2001 infamy lives in the heart of President Barack Hussein Obama. Based on Obama’s Afghan War address last year, with West Point cadets as props, the only infamy I could detect was for the men and women who kept us safe after 911, especially | Read More »
Columbus discovered us, and thank God for it Happy Columbus Day! And yes, there are good reasons to be happy. For the chain of events that resulted in the creation and evolution of the greatest nation the world has even known includes the discoveries of Christopher Columbus in 1492 as essential and as Exhibit A for proof of the reasons we became the Shining City | Read More »
{Originally published March 17, 2009} I used to find it a bit odd that a nation founded primarily by Anglo-Saxon Brits, reserves its greatest ethnic celebration for the Irish (apologies to Columbus and his progeny). That was before I channeled my inner-Irish roots, thanks primarily to the book, “Born Fighting” by Senator Jim Webb (D-VA)I had long known, thanks to my Decatur, Alabama uncle’s post-”Roots” | Read More »
Columbus discovered us, and thank God for it Happy Columbus Day! And yes, there are good reasons to be happy. For the chain of events that resulted in the creation and evolution of the greatest nation the world has even known includes the discoveries of Christopher Columbus in 1492 as essential and as Exhibit A for proof of the reasons we became the Shining City | Read More »
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