The Rejection of Communism On Thanksgiving Day
Turning the great pumpkin pie of prosperity that would become America from a zero-sum game to an ever-expanding delicious dish.
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. November 25, 2021 Published by American Thinker
This week our nation is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving of the Pilgrims who had arrived a year earlier on November 11, 1620 on the Mayflower with 102 passengers -- men, women and children. They came as families to set up a society of self government with freedom to practice their own religion without fear of persecution from the English government or its church. This brave community laid the foundations for the United States of America.
I really enjoy watching on TV the holiday events at our nation’s capitol. Under President Trump, we enjoyed spectacular patriotic programs done with class. 
The parallels of people and events of 244 years ago are eerily similar to those of today. By December 1776, the once giddy prospects of American colonists winning their independence from England had grown dim. In December 2020, the prospect of America remaining a free nation hangs in the balance.
Four hundred years ago this month, a group of devout but daring Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic to the New World to escape religious persecution and the repression of the English government.
As he departed Washington on January 20 for his Florida home, President Trump told his supporters, “We’ll be back in some form.” On January 25 he opened an “
The legendary “freedom fighter,” brilliant economist, and long time columnist, Walter E. Williams died on December 2 at the age of 84. Brilliant, witty, and incisive, he was one of the most influential conservative thinkers of our time.
It was 400 years ago today, November 11, 1620, that 41 Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact on board the Mayflower as it lay anchored in the harbor of what is now Provincetown. With the change in the calendar in 1752, the date now corresponds to November 21.