By Mark | September 8, 2009
This afternoon, shortly after the President addressed the students of America with his controversial message of personal responsibility and educational achievement, thousands of angry local men and women gathered in Brighton, Michigan for a tea party… Here’s some video of the event: As you might recall, I mentioned Brighton in a post yesterday, as their […]
By Mark | September 7, 2009
As some of you probably know, Labor Day was first celebrated here in the United States in 1882. It wasn’t, however, made a national holiday until 1894, in the wake of a bloody strike by employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company, an Illinois-based manufacturer of luxury rail cars. It all began when the company, […]
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