national holidays

^{Scott S. Powell
September 1, 2022
Citizen Leadership}

Labor Day Honors Exceptionalism That Won’t Be Cancelled

_{Scott S. Powell
September 1, 2022
Citizen Leadership}

For most, Labor Day can be a rather vague holiday without the clarity and meaning typically associated with other holidays. Yet in its most complete context, Labor Day should be recognized as the holiday that celebrates not only labor, but also the ideas, job creators, and institutions central to the flourishing of the United States and its people. Read More ›

Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site

^{Scott S. Powell
January 10, 2022
Citizen Leadership}

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: A Celebration of the Redemption of America’s Principles

_{Scott S. Powell
January 10, 2022
Citizen Leadership}

Nearly 200 years after the vision expressed in the Declaration of Independence, and nearly 100 years after the bloody Civil War and Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, Martin Luther King Jr. answered the call and ultimately sacrificed his life to finish the work he described as making people, “free at last, free at last.” Read More ›

USA, VA, Arlington. Gravestones at Arlington National Cemetary. — Photo by Brent Bergherm/Danita Delimont on Adobe Stock

^{Scott S. Powell
May 25, 2020
Citizen Leadership}

Memorial Day: Connecting the Past with the Present

_{Scott S. Powell
May 25, 2020
Citizen Leadership}

The Civil War was America’s most costly war with some 360,222 Union and 258,000 Confederate lives lost. Many historians put the death toll higher, but regardless, the number of Civil War casualties exceeds the nation’s loss in all its other wars combined -- the two World Wars, the Korean and Vietnamese Wars and subsequent wars right up through conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
November 12, 2019
Uncategorized}

Veterans Day: Celebration of a Greater Love

_{Scott S. Powell
November 12, 2019
Uncategorized}

Veteran’s Day had its origin at the end of World War I in 1918, a conflict so horrendous that it was dubbed, “the Great War,” or “the war to end all wars,” with the United States playing the decisive role in the Allied powers’ final victory. It was first known as Armistice Day, celebrated on November 11 because that was Read More ›

^{John G. West
January 18, 2019
Intelligent Design}

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

_{John G. West
January 18, 2019
Intelligent Design}

Dr. King was sharply critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke forcefully against the idea that humans are the products of a blind material process. Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
September 15, 2018
Economics}

Constitution Day is Our Most Important Forgotten Holiday

_{Scott S. Powell
September 15, 2018
Economics}

Constitution Day, which falls on September 17, is the national observance holiday that most Americans have never heard of. Yet this year, 2018, it may well be our most important holiday. For the Constitution is threatened more now than at any time since seven Southern states seceded from the Union and Civil War broke out on April 12, 1861. To …

^{John R. Miller
February 19, 2011
Citizen Leadership}

The Original American Idol

_{John R. Miller
February 19, 2011
Citizen Leadership}

Today we merge Washington’s birthday with the birthdays of other presidents and submerge them all in clothing and appliance sales. But it was not always so. Americans in past centuries celebrated Washington’s birthday as a winter version of the Fourth of July. Americans in Cambridge, Williamsburg, Richmond and Milton, Conn., were already celebrating Washington’s birthday even before the end of Read More ›