“Sarah Josepha Hale, a 74-year-old magazine editor, wrote a letter to Lincoln on September 28, 1863, urging him to have the "day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival." She explained, "You may have observed that, for some years past, there has been an increasing interest felt in our land to have the Thanksgiving held on the same day, in all the States; it now needs National recognition and authoritive fixation, only, to become permanently, an American custom and institution."

Prior to this, each state scheduled its own Thanksgiving holiday at different times, mainly in New England and other Northern states. President Lincoln responded to Mrs. Hale's request immediately, unlike several of his predecessors, who ignored her petitions altogether. In her letter to Lincoln she mentioned that she had been advocating a national thanksgiving date for 15 years as the editor of Godey's Lady's Book. George Washington was the first president to proclaim a day of thanksgiving, issuing his request on October 3, 1789, exactly 74 years before Lincoln's.”

Tags: guest content ? Abraham Lincoln ? 1863 ? William H. Seward ? President ? Thanksgiving ? United States

Maryland files federal court challenge asking judge to block Whitaker, install Rosenstein

Tags: Attorney General ? Maryland ? Federal court ? Matthew Whitaker ? Rod Rosenstein ? President ? Senate ? courts ? separation of powers

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

Tags: polls ? Democrats ? President ? Operation Choke Point ? Obama Administration ? financial system ? USPS ? Secret Service ? ID theft ? DEA ? ICE ? surveillance ? Florida ? election ? recount ? victimhood ? Dianne Feinstein ? Barack Obama ? immigration

““More DOJ norms being eroded. Trump-a SUBJECT of the investigation-wants access to material related to the inquiry. His Congressional supporters want evidence connected to an ongoing investigation. Time for DOJ/FBI to simply say no-protect the institutions and time tested norms."””
     — Eric Holder tweet reported at Holder urges DOJ/FBI to unconstitutionally defy President: 'Protect the institutions'

Federal agencies and Federal agents serve at the pleasure of the President and Congress. That is directly from the Constitution. No institution may trump the Constitution. Democrats wouldn't stand for it if it were happening to a Democrat president or a Democrat Congress. There's more than a little hypocrisy here.

Tags: Eric Holder ? FedGovs ? institutions ? President ? Congress ? Democrats

??There were so many patting themselves on the back and proud that a black man had been elected President that no one bothered to ask if a good man had been elected President.??
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ? Barack Obama ? President ? election

This isn't business as usual. It never is with Trump. The old diplomatic games won't work. He doesn't care about the shape of the table. Trump cares about getting things done.

Tags: Donald Trump ? Kim Jong Un ? experts ? President ? Democrat ? North Korea ? business as usual ? diplomatic games ? China ? mountain collapse ? underestimating

??Personally I don't think anyone should be displayed in state in the Capital unless 1) They were the President, and 2) They died in office. ANYTHING else is political opportunism.

But that's just me.??
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ? Billy Graham ? Captial Building ? lying in state ? President ? died in office ? political opportunism

““Our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.””
     — President Clinton, State of the Union address, 1995
Source : Take The 'Racist Xenophobe' Quiz: Who Said This About Illegal Immigration?

Tags: Bill Clinton ? 1995 ? President ? illegal immigrants ? border guards ? wellfare ? Investors Business Daily

““All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers.””
     — President Bill Clinton, State of the Union address, 1995
Source : Take The 'Racist Xenophobe' Quiz: Who Said This About Illegal Immigration?

Tags: Bill Clinton ? 1995 ? President ? illegal immigrants ? jobs ? legal immigrants ? citizen ? public services ? taxpayers ? Investors Business Daily

““We will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace””
     — President Bill Clinton, State of the Union address, 1995
Source : Take The 'Racist Xenophobe' Quiz: Who Said This About Illegal Immigration?

Tags: Bill Clinton ? President ? 1995 ? illegal immigrants ? deported ? Investors Business Daily

““We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.””
     — President Bill Clinton, State of the Union address, 1995
Source : Take The 'Racist Xenophobe' Quiz: Who Said This About Illegal Immigration?

Tags: Bill Clinton ? President ? 1995 ? immigrants ? abuse of laws ? illegal immigrants

““If only everyone (in the Middle East) could be like Scandinavians, (achieving peace) would all be easy.””
     — President Barack Obama, 2016
Source : Take The 'Racist Xenophobe' Quiz: Who Said This About Illegal Immigration?

Tags: Barack Obama ? President ? 2016 ? Scandinavians ? illegal immigrants ? Investors Business Daily

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

Tags: Uranium One ? Tom Fitton ? Barack Obama ? Judicial Watch ? Medicaid ? Obamacare ? Ben Cardin ? online gambling ? Institute For Justice ? New Jersey ? home bakers ? President ? regulations ? bioenhancement ? union ? Main Street ? Wall Street ? Hillary Clinton ? Bill Clinton ? Congress ? Canadian PM ? Sharia ? poverty ? wealth ? bubble

Funny how that only works if there is a liberal President

Tags: Original Vigil ? Roger Ebert ? President ? criticism ? Barack Obama ? Glen Beck ? liberals ? elected officials

““I am an American and a Patriot. I am my country's keeper. The President and Congress report to me. And so - I will stay informed and involved. Ignorance, apathy, and complacency are my enemy. I will make my voice heard and not just at election time. Silence is the same as consent in the face of oppression. I can make a difference. I matter.I am an American and a Patriot.””

Tags: picture ? American ? patriot ? President ? Congress ? informed ? involved ? ignorance ? apathy ? complacency ? enemy ? voice ? election ? silence ? consent ? oppression ? memes

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

Tags: CFPB ? resistance ? Masterpiece Cakeshop ? marijuana ? pot ? taboo ? conservative ? Roy Moore ? Al Franken ? Trent Franks ? surrogacy ? First Amendment ? Phillip DeFranco ? Congress ? President ? Pam Anderson ? victimhood feminism ? Harvey Weinstein ? everybody knew ? black market ? Spain ? cheese ? Republicans ? tax cutting ? broadband ? internet ? Harvard ? drug prices ? big pharma ? monopoly ? August Ames ? gay porn ? exceptions ? adult film star ? QE

Older headlines that don't merit their own entry

Tags: Republicans ? Democrats ? Donald Trump ? Barack Obama ? Hillary Clinton ? looted ? Antifa ? Samantha Power ? unmasking ? Princeton ? campus newspaper ? editorial board ? dissent ? climate change ? Florida ? solar power ? crony capitalism ? Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ? slush fund ? Congress ? President ? taxpayers ? Jeff Sessions ? fearmongering ? stingray ? warrant ? rental ? vacancy ? Elizabeth Warren

Roundup of my link stack

Tags: Original Vigil ? Max Yasgur ? American Values ? dissent ? Barack Obama ? unemployment rate ? President ? internet ? stimulus ? Chicago ? global warming

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

Tags: 2016 election ? Robert Mueller ? Donald Trump ? Loretta Lynch ? Bill Clinton ? Republican ? Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ? President ? Congress ? simple vs complex ? Army ? Confederate general ? Brooklyn ? Paul Ryan ? crony capitalism

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

Tags: Syria ? covert program ? CIA ? Obama Administration ? jihadist ? Obamacare ? Donald Trump ? 2016 election ? CFPB ? Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ? unmasking ? Clinton campaign ? President ? Robert Mueller ? regulations ? Clarence Thomas ? Jeff Sessions ? civil forfeiture

“Liberals Can't Deal With A President Who Takes America's Side”

Tags: clipping ? Kurt Schlichter ? liberal ? President ? America ? Western Civilization ? immigrants ? refugee ? multicultural ? elites

”Deep State Leaks Highly Classified Info to Washington Post to Smear President Trump”

“Trump: I had ‘absolute right’ to share ‘facts’ with Russia”

Tags: fake news ? clipping ? picture ? Kristina Wong ? H.R. McMaster ? White House ? President ? Donald Trump ? Sergey Lavrov ? Sergei Kislyak ? Yaron Steinbuch ? Russia ? ISIS ? terrorism ? Harry S Truman

We need solutions that don't exile people politically.

Tags: progressive ? conservative ? environmental crusade ? President ? power of the state

?Ignore the Mob—Long Live the Electoral College”

Tags: skimmed ? David Harsanyi ? electoral college ? President ? Vice President ? politicos ? scaremonger ? Senate ? Congress ? Barack Obama ? Donald Trump ? clipping

“Memo To The Next President: We Can Grow A Lot Faster”

Tags: skimmed ? decline ? productivity ? innovation ? productivity ? rule of law ? regulation ? property rights ? taxation ? President ? Congress ? clipping

2016 is when more Americans will vote against someone rather than for someone.

Tags: election ? 2016 ? American ? vote against ? CGP Grey ? first past the post ? two major parties ? electoral college ? President ? electors ? majority ? may or may not ? none of the above

There are some ideas I have been playing with the last few years or so

Tags: American republic ? repeal ? amendment ? technocrats ? Constitution ? President ? amendment proposal ? referendum ? 16th Amendment ? income tax ? IRS ? 17th Amendment ? Senate ? none of the above ? alternative voting ? Congress ? more government ? Federal regulation ? default state ? sunset clause ? exempt ? automatic repeal ? commerce clause ? Republic ? classic ? favorites

The party system controls who runs for office & stops the public from interfering

Tags: Trump ? Hillary Clinton ? elites ? either/or ? CGP Grey ? Congress ? President ? video ? none of the above ? guest content

In American politics, one of two things usually happen to politicos who act against the party leadership like Cruz has.

Tags: Ted Cruz ? President