Thanksgiving and Chanukah coincide this year. As Chanukah is a story of mankind’s struggle for freedom, it’s only right and proper that freedom be high on the list of things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. And Read more »
Constitution Day, 2011
I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore! Howard Beale Network The options considered by the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention were broad. What kind of government were we to have? Read more »
Constitution Day, 2010
How are we, a free people, to govern ourselves? This was the question Washington, Madison, Franklin and their colleagues asked themselves that miraculous summer 223 years ago. Eleven years after bringing forth a new nation, conceived in Read more »
Constitution Day, 2009
You lie. Joe Wilson Congressman, South Carolina The debate over health-care reform in America is being dominated by two extreme political factions. Ideologues on the far left threaten to torpedo any bill that fails to have a Read more »
Holiday Season, 2008
Peace on Earth. Good will towards all. Nice words— Peace on Earth. Good will towards all. It makes us feel good when we say them, as if they were magical incantations through which we could transform the Read more »
Constitution Day, 2008
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Read more »
Holiday Season, 2007
Peace on Earth. Good Will Toward All. In less than two weeks, we, the people, will begin for real the task of selecting our next President. Beginning January 3rd in Iowa and ending ten months later on Read more »
Constitution Day, 2007
We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves Read more »
Holiday Season, 2006
Peace on Earth. Good will to all. Christmas Blessing In 1956, nine years into the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower launched a cultural exchange program with the Soviet Union. His goal was to forge a bond of Read more »
Holiday Season, 2005
On May 21, 1944, with the outcome of the Second World War very much in doubt a vast “I Am an American Day” ceremony was held in Central Park, New York City. Thousands of people were present, Read more »