Yesterday, June 19th, we celebrated America’s newest federal holiday. When Joe Biden signed it into law on Thursday, June 17th, it squeaked into the record books barely 48 hours before festivities were due to kick off. Finally, Americans have red circle on their calendars honoring the day in 1865 when …
For a variety of reasons, I missed posting on the last Sunday in May, over Memorial Day weekend. I wanted to write about what the day signifies, why we have such a day in our country’s holiday calendar. We are called to “honor and mourn the military personnel who have …
Speak Out: Pass the For the People Act One of my great passions is stopping the systematic disenfranchisement of American voters across the country. Outright disenfranchisement — taking away a citizen’s right to vote — is pretty damned blatant. The laws doing so must be very creative. For example, a …
