Today is only ONE President’s Day: The Father of our Country

By: gsandlapper1 (Diary)  |  February 18th at 11:56 AM  | 

It is fitting that if we are to celebrate just one President as a national holiday that it be the Father of our Country, without whose leadership and character there would be no Shining City on a Hill. And yes, today’s federal holiday is still, and always has been, declared in federal law, as Washington’s Birthday, not any so-called amorphous “President’s Day” requiring celebrations of | Read More »

What MLK would say on Obama, poverty, guns, abortion, etc.

By: gsandlapper1 (Diary)  |  January 20th at 07:56 PM  | 

Tomorrow, America’s first Black President will deliver his Second Inaugural Address on the national holiday named for the Black preacher that dreamed of a day when Americans would judge their fellow man by the content of their character, and not by the color of their skin. Roosted atop Stone Mountain of Georgia, let’s make it so. During a 1980s lobbying trip to Capitol Hill on | Read More »