To appreciate Labor Day, one needs to know the history preceding it.
At the time the United States was founded, most people were self-employed, working as either farmers or in trades, such as:
baker,
butcher,
carpenter,
cabinetmaker,
upholsterer,
tailor,
milliner...
There is an age old struggle between two competing motivations: GREED versus the GOSPEL.
Throughout history, there have been those motivated by GREED, who:
-took land...
In 1655, British Admiral William Penn, the father of Pennsylvania's founder, captured Jamaica from the Spanish.
As Jamaica was too far from England be defended, inhabitants turned to privateers, freebooters, buccaneers and pirates...
USA Today ran the headlines, April 11, 2024: "Voters, fearful of World War III as Iran strikes Israel."
President Nixon, in his last official address, August 8,...
In the decades prior to the Revolutionary War, tensions arose between the two largest global powers: BRITAIN, led by King George II, and FRANCE, led by...
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., was born October 27, 1858.
As a child, he had debilitating asthma, often waking up at night as if being smothered to death.
At 6-years-old, he...
During the Civil War, on March 30, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer.
Lincoln stated:
"Whereas, the Senate of the United States devoutly...
U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and other agencies report that children from fatherless homes are:
Five times more likely to live...
