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Have we mentioned in this space previously that Monday holidays are a royal pain for the newspaper?” It throws our work schedule out of kilter and forces us to work extra hard on Tuesday, catching up on things that we normally do on Monday. Just so you know, we don’t disapprove of the events and people that are honored on those holidays. We also accept the fact that we are likely in the minority in being opposed to Monday holidays. It’s just that we are old and are comfortable in the rut we occupy. By the way, the newspaper staff does not take off on Monday holidays; we just do different tasks on that day than usual. Otherwise, we would not be able to get the Wednesday edition “out” on time. Last Monday’s holiday delayed the U.S. Senate’s taking up the already long-delayed House impeachment of President Donald Trump. It took Speaker Nancy Pelosi and fellow House nincompoops a month to getting around to sending their articles of Impeachment to the Senate where their allegations will be judged. It’s almost as if Pelosi and Co. were ashamed of what they did, as they should be.

Impeachment Game Sets Terrible Precedent

This has been a Nothing Burger from Day One – simply snide and petty politics in an effort to undo an election by American citizens. It sets a terrible precedence for the future. The left-wingers in the House despise the policies of President Trump who has turned out to be a surprisingly effective executive despite constant media nit-picking. The Democrat majority in the House was determined to turn the U.S. into another socialist country, on the order of many in Europe. The big money elites are determined to undo the great American experiment in which the government is the servant of the people. The goal, of course, is to squeeze the nation’s wealth into the elitist one-worlders’ pockets and turn American citizens into humble worker bees rather than citizens. Once again, the Left underestimated the determination of Americans to remain a free people. Shame on Speaker Nancy “Giggles” Pelosi and her fellow leftists and thank God for the Founders of the United States of America. The direction the Senate takes in handling the thinly-veiled coup attempt could get very interesting. If the Senate decides to call witnesses, including Joe Biden and son, Hunter, and certain members of the Justice Department and intelligence services under former President Obama, it might well reveal more of the corruption that has run rampant in Washington than the Trump haters want to see opened to the light of day. Sen. Ted Cruz has expressed some interesting thoughts on this matter, pointing out that if the Senate decides to open it up to witnesses, rather than give the articles the quick death they deserve, the hearings could stretch out for weeks, maybe months. That would suit the House majority, who after giving up on finding anything impeachable the president has done, are determined to use the impeachment process as a means of attempting to embarrass the president and hurt his re-election chances. Another possible goal of the left might well be to turn America’s formerly stable and peaceful society into a roiling, defiant mass of civil disobedience, something intended to destroy our system of government.

Martin Luther King Remembered

We thought about Martin Luther King whose birthday anniversary was observed last Monday. Doctor King was worthy of remembrance. Historian Jarrett Stepman who contributes columns to the National Heritage Foundation’s online publication, The Daily Signal, had some worthwhile observations about MLK. Stepman pointed out that while many dissenters today attempt to denigrate the nation’s founding principles, King was not one of them. He wrote: “While the study of slavery is essential to understanding America’s past, it is also vital to recognize just how much of a connection King had to the Founding Fathers and the ideas that animated them. Those ideas were born in the context of a world in which tyranny was the norm. Political rule of, by, and for the people was no more than an experiment. “Much like Frederick Douglass, King didn’t shy away from criticizing America for failing to uphold the “self-evident” truths cited in its founding documents. “In particular, as I explain in my book “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past,” King followed a thread of ideas stemming from Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, through Abraham Lincoln, and finally to his own time when the equal rights of black Americans were being denied by much of the country.

“King was not so small-minded as to reject the ideas of the declaration because its writer, a slave owner, failed to live up to them. Instead, he embraced those ideas as fundamentally correct and recognized how they were the key to bringing about a ‘new birth of freedom’ in his own time.”

He also added:

“King deserves enduring recognition from all Americans for his role in bringing civil rights to fruition and, in some ways more importantly, convincing the majority of Americans that racism stood in opposition to our founding and Biblical principles.”