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April 26th, 2024

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A new kind of Labor Day

Today's holiday is the 122nd anniversary of the first national Labor Day, a date that in 1894 union workers thought would long be a rallying time for blue-collar labor against management - much in the fashion of the May Day associated with Marxism. Ironically, however, Labor Day, like May 1 abroad, has not only lost the…

Previously:


08/03/16: Fed up with the Fed's elder abuse
07/04/16: The Fourth of July in oratory
09/14/15: How expatriates are forging an Obama legacy
09/07/15: Will 2016 reprise 1836? Republicans hit the campaign trail in overwhelming numbers once before
07/10/15: Obama's desperation for an Iran nuclear deal mirrors a predecessor's futile arm-twisting
06/19/15: The tortuous history of Father's Day neckties
03/13/15: A presidential library for Obama's fairy tales

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