Thanksgiving is a purely American holiday, started in the year 1621 by the Pilgrims, a group of people entirely white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant. It has nothing to do with immigration.
But increasingl...
There’s a typical piece liberal hate-America snark in the New York Times today from Paul Krugman, celebrating Thanksgiving by calling the Pilgrim Fathers “illegal immigrants.”
“Think, for a minute, ab...
David Nolan was born Thanksgiving Week, 1943, and died Thanksgiving Week, 2010. He is survived by, and will be remembered for, the two babies he sired in 1971: the Libertarian Party, and the Nolan Cha...
Back in 1910, C. T. Howard wrote in St. Nicholas Magazine: "The world has changed more in the last 100 years than in any 1000 years that have gone before."[Thanksgiving In 1810, November 1910] (Than...
Americans generally speaking still feel fairly thankful for the U.S., but I can see the day when they will share the bitter disillusionment almost universal among British World War II veterans, as repo...
Barack Hussein Obama has issued his first Thanksgiving Proclamation:
"What began as a harvest celebration between European settlers and indigenous communities nearly four centuries ago has become ou...
You can tell that the War Against Christmas is coming soon, because it's War Against Thanksgiving time!
"For decades, Claremont kindergartners have celebrated Thanksgiving by dressing up as pilgrims a...
Recently I wrote about a bunch of ungrateful people in Seattle who aren't happy about Thanksgiving. [Thanksgiving–History From The Enemy's Point Of View].
The idea is that we're supposed to feel guilty...
The Seattle Public Schools have issued an anti-Thanksgiving fatwa, with no thought for the fact that most of their students might actually give thanks to God for America and its many blessings. They're...
One of my interests is family history. My early childhood was spent with a 103 year old great-grandmother who had four uncles, William Drew Washburn, Elihu B. Washburne, Cadwallder Washburn and Israel ...
