The official name of this holiday is the completely unreasonable and very United Nationish “International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims,” so we’ll just go with INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY! As usual, there’s a lot of tyranny and oppression going on in this …
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 3/24/23 – INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY! Read More »
She was a women’s rights activist at a time when it was considered improper for a woman to even speak in public, a feminist a century before the word was coined, and one of the reasons why women got the vote. She didn’t live to see that day, so we settle for celebrating NATIONAL SUSAN …
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 2/15/23 – SUSAN B. ANTHONY DAY! Read More »
It wasn’t enough to win the Civil War. It had to be written into the Constitution so that it could never happen again, no matter what. On this date in 1865, Abraham Lincoln signed the Thirteenth Amendment to The Constitution, making today NATIONAL FREEDOM DAY! The Civil War was not yet over, but the Confederacy …
It really is all about the Benjamins today, or at least one of them on NATIONAL BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DAY! We know him, we love him, we learned all about him in school, and we covet his portrait on the hundred dollar bill. The oldest Founding Founder was the one with the youngest mind. In his long life, Ben …
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 1/17/23 – BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DAY! Read More »
It wasn’t enough to win the Civil War. It had to be written into the Constitution so that it could never happen again, no matter what. On this date in 1865, Abraham Lincoln submitted to Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to The Constitution, making today NATIONAL FREEDOM DAY! The Civil War was not yet over, but …
You hear this a lot, never discuss religion or politics. And yet, that’s all we seem to do since these are two very juicy subjects. Besides, it’s Easter and Passover, and politics is always in season. People find it hard to avoid discussing the things that make them tick. Only trouble is, these little chats …
