Celebrating Labor Day In America Is A Rich And Time Honored Tradition
Browsing: Opinions
However, Floridians have even more to celebrate: Florida’s commitment to safeguarding worker freedom as one of 26 states with a Right to Work law, a commonsense, popular protection for the workers we celebrate on Labor Day.
It’s Possible to Salvage Canadian-American Friendship―and Much More
While Iran was being threatened by Donald Trump with economic D-Day, Canada was being threatened with a political D-Day. While a dispute over tariffs had appeared to be the cause of a breakdown in negotiations, Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested that something else was responsible.
Are you a terrorist if you disarm the weapons of a terrorist? If you knew a terrorist in your town had weapons ready to use and you went and destroyed those weapons, are you a terrorist? The US government answers yes.
Bear with me. I’m talking about being funny. This is not what I expected to be writing about today, and nothing feels the least bit funny to me about the world I’m living in – or about the stumbling leg pain and imbalance the aging process has bequeathed me, not to mention . . . huh? What did you say? Oh yeah, I can barely hear.
But hope is not strategy and it risks blinding Democrats to a harsh reality. Despite widespread dissatisfaction with the current administration, the Democratic Party remains less favorable in voters’ eyes than the Republican Party. Criticizing Trump is not enough. To regain voter confidence, they must also reevaluate and change their own policies and positions.
Florida’s primary election poses interesting questions for Black voters and representation. Election Night brought about the opportunity to help elect the state’s first Black governor, first Black US Senator and the choice of a white Jewish woman to represent a congressional district historically held by a Black member of Congress.
Students of history should remember one fundamental lesson: no nation, regardless of its wealth, military strength, or perceived invincibility, is too powerful to collapse. The Russian and Ottoman empires disappeared. The Soviet Union dissolved. Britain’s vast empire receded.
Working-class men of every color have been in crisis for generations. The way out is to come together, for the sake of all our kids.