Government Employees and Columbus Day
October 12, 2020
How many government employees who rail against Columbus Day and want to change the holiday are sitting home today enjoying their paid holiday? I suspect all of them. How many of them insisted on working this day out of principle and refused to take a paid holiday? I suspect that number is zero.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

