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Nov 26, 2020
Good morning from Washington. Interested to learn more about how Thanksgiving became an American tradition? Virginia Allen speaks to author Melanie Kirkpatrick about the history of the holiday, including George Washington and Abraham Lincoln’s roles in promoting a day for giving thanks. If you’re feeling a little blue this year, perhaps separated from loved ones because of COVID-19, Cal Thomas has a thoughtful meditation. Plus: Leslie Ford on the children who need families, and Rachel del Guidice on how media bias affected the election. We hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Morning Bell will return Monday.
This Thanksgiving, remember the words of this hymn: “Now thank we all our God with heart and hands and voices, who wondrous things has done, in whom his world rejoices; who … has blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love.”
Noncitizens likely voted at a high enough rate to alter the 2020 Electoral College tally, potentially flipping the states of Arizona and Georgia, according to an analysis by Just Facts.
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From Flynn to Nixon: The rich, controversial history of presidential pardons
There have been many strange and controversial pardons over the history of this country.
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court barred New York from enforcing specific limits on churches and synagogues in hard-hit COVID areas. Chief Justice John Roberts voted along with the three liberal justices. Each of the dissenting justices wrote an opinion on their decisions. The Diocese of Brooklyn argued that houses of worship were singled-out by Governor Cuomo’s executive order.
Why Trump Provided a Happy Thanksgiving for Michael Flynn
Mara Gay, an MSNBC contributor, compared the pardoning of Michael Flynn to actions taken under Hitler. She said, referencing Martin Luther King, that “everything that was done in Nazi Germany was legal.”
ABC’s Chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl removed his mask indoors when the cameras stopped rolling (or so he thought). Karl has previously criticized people for not wearing masks even when outdoors. Could his pearl-clutching merely be a political affectation?
The two lawsuits released by Sidney Powell have been all but ignored by the legacy media. Considering there are likely tens of millions of people on both sides of the divide who want to know what she is alleging, this seemingly concerted blanket ban raises a lot of questions.
President Trump has officially pardoned Michael Flynn. The move was met with widespread condemnation by the left-leaning media despite the fact that even the DOJ did not wish to prosecute.
Sidney Powell has released her lawsuits in both Michigan and Georgia, alleging “massive fraud” through the use of Dominion voting machines and Smartmatic software.
A judge has ruled that no further certification can occur in Pennsylvania until a hearing can be held on November 27. The ruling comes on the same day that Rudy Giuliani and the president spoke at a live-streamed Republican event to hear evidence on voting irregularities.
Something political to ponder as you enjoy your morning coffee.
Has Sidney Powell “released the Kraken” in the ongoing fight for the presidential election? Depending on the news sources you read, that may not be easy to determine. Unsurprisingly, it seems that news outlets’ political leanings influence its assessment of the two lawsuits. Does Powell have the silver bullet she claims or is it a distraction from other cases taking place around the country?
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The biggest companies are lapping smaller players in pandemic America, deepening inequities in business as in other areas of life, Erica Pandey writes.
Winners:
Online groceries: Orders are up 560% in the past week (compared with October) as most people do their Thanksgiving dinner shopping online, according to Adobe Analytics.
Small turkeys: There’s a shortage of 8- to 16-pound birds in America as people prepare to celebrate the holiday with just their immediate families this year.
Thai restaurants: Thai food seems to be Americans’ top pandemic-era takeout choice, says marketing analytics company Zenreach. Thai restaurants are operating at 45% of normal capacity, compared with the industry average of 35%.
Losers:
Small businesses: Hundreds of thousands of small, independent businesses remain closed around the country, and close to 60% of them have now shuttered for good, according to Yelp data.
Malls: 74% of people plan to shop online this weekend to avoid crowds, per a Deloitte survey.
“Turkey first-timers”: With so many people staying put, those who typically are dinner guests (and just show up with a bottle of wine) will attempt to cook a feast themselves, reports The Wall Street Journal.
2. Biden sees hard winter but promises: “This will not last forever”
President-elect Biden speaks yesterday in Wilmington. Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP
In a Thanksgiving address in Wilmington yesterday, President-elect Biden spoke bluntly but hopefully:
[W]e find ourselves again, facing a long, hard winter. … I know the country has grown weary of the fight. We need to remember we’re at war with the virus, not with one another … This is the moment where we need to instill our spines, redouble our efforts and recommit ourselves to the fight.
Biden pointed out that the U.S. is now averaging 160,000+ new cases a day:
No one would be surprised if we hit 200,000 cases in a single day. Many local health systems are at risk of being overwhelmed. That’s the plain and simple truth. … And I believe you always deserve to hear the truth … from your president. …
America’s not going to lose this war. We’ll get our lives back. Life is going to return to normal, I promise you. … This will not last forever.
A handful of states did better this week. But for the most part, they’re states that had astronomical increases this fall, Sam Baker and Andrew Witherspoon write.
⚡The Supreme Court early today ruled that pandemic restrictions on places of worship by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) violated the First Amendment.
Why it matters: The 5-4 decision is the first significant action by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who cast the deciding vote in favor of the Catholic Church and Orthodox Jewish synagogues.
Axios data-viz editor Danielle Alberti reminds us food banks need donations all year: Setting a small recurring donation is a great way to help.
🎁 An easy, “within five minutes” gift for someone you know: Amazon has email delivery for Albertsons, Whole Foods, UberEats and more.
Play Thanksgiving Santa: Use a mutual friend to anonymously pass a grocery gift card to a family that could use the boost.
6. Georgia is front line of GOP fight for Latinos
Photo illustration by Justin Metz for The New York Times
“Nearly one million Latinos now live in Georgia,” where Senate control will be decided with a pair of runoffs on Jan. 5, “and more than 8 percent of Georgians speak Spanish at home,” Marcela Valdes writes in the cover story of this weekend’s New York Times Magazine:
“[T]his year, for the first time in a presidential election, the number of eligible Latino voters was greater than the number of eligible African-American voters,” The Times reports.
“In Arizona, Florida, Nevada and Texas, they may have accounted for 20 percent of the vote, and their percentages also at least doubled in Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia and Wisconsin.”
Axios AM reader Ralph Tieleman shares this pic of smoked salmon from Tofino, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada:
“I usually roll up a halibut fillet, put stuffing in it and bake it for Thanksgiving. Served with wild cranberries that grow here.”
Beverly Swartz writes from Fountain, Fla.: “My sister & brother live in the same house & like me are both retired. Since I can’t drive they are coming to my forest, (yes, I said forest) and enjoy our typical get-together dinner — a shrimp boil with onions, potatoes & corn. Plus lemon butter.”
“The shrimp are actually soaked, not boiled, in the precooked veggies with the shrimp boil spices. That’s a true New Orleans Shrimp Boil, done in the forest of North Bay County, Fla.”
Steve White of Silver City, N.M., writes: “My wife and I live in a rural community in New Mexico’s ‘boot heel.’ We have been longtime volunteers at The Commons, our local food pantry.”
“In mulling over how to navigate Thanksgiving during these COVID times, we decided to prepare a traditional meal for 8-10 guests. However, instead of inviting them to our home, we will be delivering Thanksgiving to theirs. At day’s end, my wife and I will really enjoy our dinner!”
💬 Have some fun at dinner: On Twitter and Instagram, Axios posted ideas for non-political debates, including:
Will we have March Madness in 2021?
Should 2020 sports championships carry asterisks?
Is Black Friday dead?
PS5, Xbox Series X or Switch?
9. Remembering El Diego: The “Hand of God” goal
Photo: El Grafico via AP
On June 22, 1986, Argentina’s Diego Maradona — who died yesterday at 60 — knocks a high ball past England’s goalkeeper Peter Shilton, scoring his first of two goals at the World Cup quarterfinal in Mexico City.
Maradona was quoted as saying the goal came “a little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God.”
Read the original AP story: ‘Although there was a dispute about his first goal, which England claimed went in off of Maradona’s hand, not his head, there was no arguing about his other score. It was a thing of beauty.”
The globe mourned after Maradona died of a heart attack in his native Buenos Aires, two weeks after being released from a hospital following brain surgery.
Argentina’s president decreed three days of national mourning,
Pelé, 80, who feuded with Maradona, said: “I have lost a dear friend, and the world has lost a legend. One day, I hope, we will play football together in the sky.”
📹See video of the “Hand of God” goal. (hat tip: Fabricio Drummond)
Religious organizations said they were illegally targeted by pandemic-related restrictions imposed to combat spiking coronavirus cases. The 5-to-4 order was the first show of solidified conservative strength on the court since the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Federal law enforcement announced the arrest of a thrice-deported illegal immigrant who now stands accused of murdering two people after a California county jail allowed him to leave against the wishes of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Public health experts are bracing for even more drastic spikes in new cases and deaths due to COVID-19 in the weeks immediately following the Thanksgiving holiday.
The Trump legal team has a “mountain” of evidence showing voting fraud that the public has yet to see and could tilt the election away from President-elect Joe Biden, according to Rudy Giuliani.
Conservatives say Janet Yellen, President-elect Joe Biden’s intended nominee for treasury secretary, is a comforting choice who is unlikely to push forward an ultra-liberal agenda that other top choices might possess.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday announced the state will take a step back to a revised version of “Phase 2” of the White House-approved anti-coronavirus restrictions, in hopes of controlling the state’s third wave of COVID-19.
Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ hand-picked economic development committee is calling for more federal aid as the state wrestles with the economic impact of the coronavirus.
Two years after the Kentucky Department of Education nearly took over the state’s largest public school system, the agency released its management audit findings for Jefferson County Public Schools on Tuesday and noted Louisville schools no longer need state oversight.
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President Trump’s final 50 days in the White House are shaping up to be as precedent-breaking as the rest of his tenure, which has deeply divided the nation and ended with him becoming the first president in nearly 30 years to be defeated after one term.
President Trump on Wednesday pardoned Michael Flynn, his first national security adviser who pleaded guilty to a charge in connection with former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Electoral College meetings will convene next month in state capitals to formalize President elect-Joe Biden’s win. But the fast-approaching Dec. 14 date has done little to deter the Trump campaign from continuing a protracted election-related legal effort that an increasing number of Republicans have grown weary of.
President Trump phoned into a meeting arranged by Pennsylvania Republicans in Gettysburg on Wednesday to renew his unsubstantiated claims that the election was stolen from him, telling participants that they needed to “turn the election over.”
The most senior Black lawmaker on Capitol Hill is taking Joe Biden to task over administration appointments, saying the president-elect is falling short when it comes to naming Black figures to top positions.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin signaled that he will move $455 billion in COVID-19 relief from the Federal Reserve back into the Treasury’s General Fund, a move that would make it harder for his successor to access the emergency funding.
John Barsa, the acting administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), tested positive for COVID-19, a spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.
The Trump administration is quickly putting out new rules and regulations with a little more than 50 days to go before it leaves office, as it seeks to leave a deeper stamp on the government.
The news on COVID-19, both good and bad, is coming at us fast. But we must learn to connect the good and bad in our minds if we are to save our society as we know it.
The incoming and outgoing U.S. presidents offered starkly different messages on the eve of Thanksgiving — with Joe Biden focusing a holiday speech on the need to quell the coronavirus while Donald Trump pardoned a longtime ally and called for overturning the election.
Gripped by the accelerating viral outbreak, the U.S. economy is under pressure from persistent layoffs, diminished income and nervous consumers, whose spending is needed to drive a recovery from the pandemic.
Americans awoke on Thursday to celebrate a Thanksgiving Day transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, with the Macy’s parade limited to a television-only event and many families resigned to meeting on video for turkey dinner.
Denver’s mayor is explaining himself and offering an apology after he traveled to Mississippi for Thanksgiving, though he had urged others to stay home if possible because of the coronavirus pandemic.
A temporary order blocking further certification of election results was stayed on appeal from officials who had already formalized President-elect Joe Biden’s win the day before.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! We’re thankful — as always — to be your morning and afternoon read. Stay safe, and enjoy your day.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP will hold a 3 p.m. video teleconference with members of the military. VP MIKE PENCE has nothing on his public schedule. President-elect JOE BIDEN andVP-elect KAMALA HARRIS have nothing on their schedules.
BIG SHIFT ON THE COURT … BARRETT LEAVES HER MARK — “Major shift at Supreme Court on Covid-19 orders,”by Josh Gerstein: “The Supreme Court signaled a major shift in its approach to coronavirus-related restrictions late Wednesday, voting 5-4 to bar New York state from reimposing limits on religious gatherings.
“The emergency rulings, issued just before midnight, were the first significant indication of a rightward shift in the court since President Donald Trump’s newest appointee — Justice Amy Coney Barrett — last month filled the seat occupied by liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died in September.
“In May and July, the Supreme Court narrowly rejected challenges to virus-related restrictions on churches in California and Nevada, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the court’s Democratic appointees to stress that state and local governments required flexibility to deal with a dangerous and evolving pandemic.
“But support on the high court for those rulings shrank with Ginsburg’s death. Wednesday night’s orders granting emergency relief to Roman Catholic churches and to Jewish congregations in New York demonstrated, as many suspected, that Barrett would side with the court’s most conservative justices in insisting on greater accommodation for religion even as the pandemic is again surging.
BUZZ: Could JEFF ZIENTS be in the mix for OMB director, and SHOLANDAYOUNG as his deputy, and eventual successor? YOUNG, of course, would be the natural at this — she is the staff director of House Appropriations. When we floated her name a few weeks ago, we got countless emails from Hill Republicans and Democrats singing her praises as an honest broker who is adept at cutting deals. ZIENTS has twice been acting OMB director, and was the deputy director, as well. But YOUNG would be a favorite of the people in the budget and appropriations trenches, and Hill appropriators. And there’s a lot of upside there for BIDEN.
DEM DRAMA …
— CLYBURN FLEXES HIS MUSCLE … NYT’S JONATHAN MARTIN on the Cabinet: “A Fight Over Agriculture Secretary Could Decide the Direction of Hunger Policy”: “An unlikely fight is breaking out over President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s choice for agriculture secretary, pitting a powerful Black lawmaker who wants to refocus the Agriculture Department on hunger against traditionalists who believe the department should be a voice for rural America.
“Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, the highest-ranking Black member of Congress and perhaps Mr. Biden’s most important supporter in the Democratic primary, is making an all-out case for Representative Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio, an African-American Democrat from Ohio.
“Mr. Clyburn, whose endorsement of Mr. Biden before the South Carolina primary helped turn the tide for the former vice president’s nomination, has spoken to him on the phone about Ms. Fudge as recently as this week. The lawmaker has also lobbied for her with two of the president-elect’s closest advisers and discussed the matter with Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“‘I feel very strongly,’ Mr. Clyburn said in an interview on Wednesday about Ms. Fudge, who leads the nutrition and oversight subcommittee on the House Agriculture Committee. ‘It’s time for Democrats to treat the Department of Agriculture as the kind of department it purports to be,’ he added, noting that much of the budget ‘deals with consumer issues and nutrition and things that affect people’s day-to-day lives.’
“But there are complications. Two of Mr. Biden’s farm-state allies are also being discussed for the job: Heidi Heitkamp, a former senator from North Dakota, and Tom Vilsack, the former Iowa governor who served as agriculture secretary for President Barack Obama.”
HOW DOES BIDEN say no to CLYBURN here when he’s making such a public and loud push?
— WAPO’S ANNIE LINSKEY and SEAN SULLIVAN, with a Wilmington dateline: “Biden tries to spread calm, as some Democrats worry about his willingness to fight”: “[Tony Blinken’s nomination], along with several other Cabinet picks rolled out this week, underscore Biden’s intention to govern as a conciliator and not a partisan warrior, some on the left worry that his early moves signal weakness even before he steps into the Oval Office. They say Biden, 78, naively believes the Senate still functions as it did during his 36 years there, with potential for compromise and conciliation.
“‘To meet Republicans where they are is to meet them in Fantasyland,”’ said Rebecca Katz, who worked as a top aide to Nevada Democrat Harry M. Reid when he served as Senate majority leader. ‘We don’t have any time to spare. Sometimes you’ve got to fight. We can’t fold before we’ve had one fight.’
“On Capitol Hill, other Democrats are sounding similar warnings. ‘There is still plenty of room for bipartisanship, but real bipartisanship, from a position of strength, not begging Republicans to confer bipartisanship upon us if we do things their way,’ said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who is worried that Biden’s outreach to the GOP is being met with resistance.”
— CNN’S ALEX ROGERS and MANU RAJU: “Democratic fight emerges ahead of appointment to fill Kamala Harris’ Senate seat”: “Prominent African Americans officials would like California Gov. Gavin Newsom to pick Reps. Karen Bass or Barbara Lee to replace Harris, the only Black woman serving in the Senate. But many Latinos, who comprise a plurality of Californians, want Newsom to choose the first Latino or Latina senator in the state’s history, such as California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia or state Attorney General Xavier Becerra.”
BREAKING OVERNIGHT … NYT’S JULIAN BARNES, ERIC SCHMITT and ADAM GOLDMAN: “C.I.A. Officer Is Killed in Somalia”: “A veteran C.I.A. officer was killed in combat in Somalia in recent days, according to current and former U.S. officials, a death that is likely to reignite debate over American counterterrorism operations in Africa. The officer was a member of the C.I.A.’s paramilitary division, the Special Activities Center, and a former member of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6.
“The identity of the officer remained classified, and the circumstances of the killing were ambiguous. It was unclear whether the officer was killed in a counterterrorism raid or was the victim of an enemy attack, former American officials said. The C.I.A. declined to comment.”
THE FLYNN PARDON — KYLE CHENEY and JOSH GERSTEIN: “Trump pardons former national security adviser Flynn”: “Outgoing President Donald Trump pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Wednesday for lying to FBI agents investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“‘It is my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has been granted a Full Pardon,’ the president tweeted. ‘Congratulations to @GenFlynn and his wonderful family, I know you will now have a truly fantastic Thanksgiving!’
“Trump’s move is an extraordinary intervention on behalf of an ally who pleaded guilty in 2017 and has spent the last two years fighting to overturn his original plea. It was not immediately clear whether Trump’s pardon also included Flynn’s failure to register as an agent of Turkey in 2016, a crime to which he admitted as part of his plea agreement.”
— WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “President Trump’s decision Wednesday to pardon former national security adviser Michael Flynn is an overdue act of justice that ends four years of political harassment, unjustified prosecution and judicial abuse. If it sounds like we feel strongly about this one, you’re right.”
WHO IS NEXT? — NYT’S KEN VOGEL and ERIC LIPTON: “Among the others looking for pardons are two former Trump campaign advisers, Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos, who like Mr. Flynn were convicted in cases stemming from the special counsel’s Russia investigation.
“But lawyers and others who have been in touch with the White House say they anticipate that Mr. Trump will use his authority in cases that extend beyond those involving the special counsel’s inquiry and the lengthy cast of aides and associates who have gotten in legal trouble since he first ran for the presidency. …
“Several groups that have pushed for a criminal justice overhaul are working with an ad hoc White House team under the direction of Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, with a goal of announcing as many as hundreds of commutations for offenders now in jail for crimes ranging from nonviolent drug convictions to mail fraud and money laundering.” NYT
BIDEN’S THANKSGIVING MESSAGE — “Joe Biden calls for shared sacrifice to fight the pandemic as Trump rails about baseless election accusations,”by WaPo’s Jenna Johnson, Amy Wang and Josh Dawsey: “President-elect Joe Biden urged Americans on the eve of Thanksgiving to recommit to fighting the coronavirus, not one another — even as President Trump continued to ignore the pandemic while he spent another day venting over baseless claims of election fraud.
“Wednesday afternoon provided a stark look at two vastly different presidencies, one suffused with anger and recrimination in its final days and the other sober and deliberate as it prepares to start.
“Biden, in a somber and sometimes pleading speech from a nearly empty music venue in Delaware, reflected on other times in history that have brought the nation suffering, on the pain felt by the families of the more than 260,000 people killed by the coronavirus, on the sacrifices many Americans are making by scaling back or canceling their holiday plans and on the additional deaths that will undoubtedly come in the ‘long, hard winter’ ahead.”
AND THE CORONAVIRUS CONTINUES TO RAGE … 12.7 MILLION AMERICANS have tested positive for the coronavirus … 262,283 Americans have died.
— AP: “Americans risk traveling over Thanksgiving despite warnings,”by Lisa Marie Pane and Sophia Tulp: “Millions of Americans took to the skies and the highways ahead of Thanksgiving at the risk of pouring gasoline on the coronavirus fire, disregarding increasingly dire warnings that they stay home and limit their holiday gatherings to members of their own household.
“Those who are flying witnessed a distinctly 2020 landscape at the nation’s airports: plexiglass barriers in front of the ID stations, rapid virus testing sites inside terminals, masks in check-in areas and on board planes, and paperwork asking passengers to quarantine on arrival at their destination.”
— “Food industry braces for new coronavirus wave,”by Ryan McCrimmon: “Turkey farmers raised smaller birds for reduced Thanksgiving gatherings. Restaurants are begging Congress for a lifeline as state and local officials clamp down on indoor dining. And major grocers including Kroger, H-E-B and Publix are bringing back per-customer limits on high-demand items like toilet paper and household cleaners.
“Across the food and grocery industry, the holidays are starting to resemble the panic of the pandemic spring, when the supply chain was stressed and businesses were teetering. This time around, grocers say the limits are proactive measures, rather than a sign of looming shortages. Still, photos of empty store shelves have again started cropping up online — a sign that the country’s food industry is still on edge as worried customers snap up more toilet paper and milk than they may need.”
— BLOOMBERG: “AstraZeneca Faces More Vaccine Questions After Manufacturing Error,”by James Paton and Suzi Ring: “AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford, among the front-runners in the quest to deliver a Covid-19 vaccine, face mounting questions about their trial results after acknowledging a manufacturing error.
“While an announcement Monday by Astra and Oxford showed their shot was 70% effective on average in a late-stage study, the scant details released by the U.K. partners have sparked worries about whether regulators would clear it. In a later statement, Oxford said a difference in manufacturing processes led to some participants being given a half dose instead of a full one.”
— WAPO’S LAURIE MCGINLEY and JOSH DAWSEY: “Trump, Carson tout covid-19 treatments as lifesavers. But regular people find them harder to get.”: “Frustrated doctors say they have had to ration the Regeneron medication given to Trump, and a similar one by Eli Lilly — if they can get them at all — because of extremely short supply. The government has distributed just 205,000 doses of the drugs so far, at a time when around 170,000 people are being infected by the coronavirus every day.
“Nonetheless, patients are clamoring for the medications, in part because of Trump’s comments, as well as testimonials from Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who also got the drugs before they were approved.”
THE FUTURE? … FT: “Delta and Alitalia to launch ‘quarantine free’ flights from US to Italy,”by Philip Georgiadis in London and Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli: “Delta Air Lines and Alitalia are to launch ‘quarantine free’ flights between the US and Italy, opening up the first travel corridor linking the US and Europe since countries introduced isolation rules during the pandemic. The US airline said that from next month passengers travelling on select flights from Atlanta to Rome would not have to self-isolate if they test negative for Covid-19 three times on their journey. Travellers will be asked to take a gold-standard PCR test 72 hours before departure, and then rapid tests at the airport in Atlanta before boarding and again on arrival in Italy.”
PLAYBOOK READS
BEN WHITE and MEGAN CASSELLA: “Brian Deese likely pick for top White House economic post”: “President-elect Joe Biden is leaning towards naming former senior Obama administration official and current investment executive Brian Deese his top economic adviser in the White House, although pushback from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party could still derail the pick.
“Three people close to the situation said Wednesday that Deese, an executive at investment giant BlackRock, is poised to be announced as Biden’s pick for director of the National Economic Council in the White House in the coming days. The decision is not final, however, and Biden could still change his mind, the people cautioned.” POLITICO
ALL EYES ON GEORGIA — “GOP Sees Georgia Senate Races as ‘Firewall’ After Trump’s Loss,” by WSJ’s Siobhan Hughes and Lindsay Wise: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and Sen. Todd Young (R., Ind.), the outgoing chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, have told colleagues that each of them needs to help Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler keep their seats in the Jan. 5 races, GOP aides said. Senators are traveling to the state to rally voters and tapping their own donor lists to raise money for the Republican incumbents in the races, where spending is already set to hit $300 million.
“‘Failure is not an option’ has emerged as the party mantra, according to a person familiar with GOP conference calls on messaging and fundraising. The line is borrowed from the film ‘Apollo 13,’ which dramatized NASA’s efforts in 1970 to safely return astronauts to Earth.” WSJ
BRYAN BENDER: “Flournoy gets progressive boost in Biden’s search for Pentagon chief”: “Michèle Flournoy, a top contender to be President-elect Joe Biden’s secretary of defense, got a round of public endorsements on Wednesday from progressive-minded lawmakers and disarmament advocates as the veteran national security official faces headwinds from others on the left who are critical of her past views and ties to defense contractors.
“‘We are keenly aware of the critical need for a leader with Flournoy’s expertise on complex national security issues,’ Reps. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) and Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), two subcommitteee chairs on the House Armed Services Committee, said in a joint statement. ‘Ms. Flournoy’s sound policy experience will be vital to ensuring strong civilian oversight of the military, professionalism and ethics in our special operations forces, workforce diversity, and activities to strengthen our technological edge through science and innovation.’
“Another progressive member of the panel, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), an Iraq War veteran, also tweeted that ‘Michèle Flournoy has a deep understanding of the existing DOD bureaucracy and the future of our defense. That’s a rare combination. I would love to see her nominated for Secretary of Defense,’ he added.”
IN MEMORIAM — “James Wolfensohn, former World Bank president and Jewish philanthropist, dies at 86,” by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency: “James Wolfensohn, the World Bank president and philanthropist who helped shepherd Israel’s exit from the Gaza Strip, has died at 86. Wolfensohn died Wednesday at his Manhattan home, media said, of pneumonia. His wife of 59 years, Elaine, died in August.
“Wolfensohn, who was born and raised in Australia, was an investment banker whose philanthropic endeavors had included turning around the fortunes of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center when in the 1990s he began lobbying to be president of the World Bank. President Bill Clinton named him to the post in 1995 … and his ten-year term was marked by his focus on partnership, rather than patronage, with the developing world. Instead of a disciplinarian, he made the institution a counselor and aide to developing economies. He ended the bank’s practice of tolerating corruption.”
ENGAGED — Audrey Henson, CEO and founder of College to Congress, and Andrew Hansen, comms director for Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.), got engaged at the Vinoy hotel overlooking downtown St. Petersburg, Fla. He rented a private venue, had nine dozen rose petals spread across the lawn and walked her up to the surprise. They then celebrated with close family and friends with a champagne reception and private dinner at Sea Salt. The couple met on election night 2018 at the Capitol Hill Club’s GOP gathering. Pic… Another pic
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This developed into many colonies, like New Hampshire and Massachusetts, having annual days of fasting, often on Good Friday.
This is evidence that colonists were not deists, who believed God set the laws of nature in place and then let the world run on its own.
America’s founders believed in a living relationship with God, where:
if people sinned, He would call them to repent;
if they did not repent, He would let judgement come; and
then when they repented, He would send deliverance.
During a threaten war, Ben Franklin published a proclamation of a General Fast in the Pennsylvania Gazette, December 12, 1747:
“The calamities of a bloody war … seem every year more nearly to approach us … and there is just reason to fear that unless we humble ourselves before the Lord and amend our ways, we may be chastized with yet heavier judgments.
We have … thought fit … to appoint … a Day of Fasting … to join with one accord in the most humble & fervent supplications that Almighty God would mercifully interpose and still the rage of war among the nations & put a stop to the effusion of Christian blood.”
Thomas Jefferson drafted a Day of Fasting for Virginia in 1774 to be observed on the day British ships blockaded Boston’s harbor.
“With apprehension … from the hostile invasion of the city of Boston … whose commerce and harbor are … to be stopped by an armed force, deem it highly necessary that the said first day of June be set apart, by the members of this House, as a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, devoutly to implore the Divine interposition.”
After the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed July 4, 1776, the first “National” Day of Thanksgiving was declared by the Continental Congress on November 1, 1777, to celebrate victory over British General Burgoyne at the Battle of Saratoga:
“The grateful feeling of their hearts … join the penitent confession of their manifold sins …
that it may please God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to forgive and blot them out of remembrance …
and … under the providence of Almighty God … secure for these United States the greatest of all human blessings, independence and peace.”
After John Paul Jones, commanding the Bonhomme Richard, captured the British ship HMS Serapis on September 23, 1779, the Continental Congress declared a Day of Thanksgiving, recommending that the states do likewise.
In accordance with this, Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson proclaimed for Virginia, November 11, 1779:
“Congress … hath thought proper … to recommend to the several States … a day of public and solemn Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for his mercies, and of Prayer, for the continuance of his favour … That He would go forth with our hosts and crown our arms with victory;
… That He would grant to His church, the plentiful effusions of Divine Grace, and pour out His Holy Spirit on all Ministers of the Gospel;
That He would bless and prosper the means of education, and spread the light of Christian knowledge through the remotest corners of the earth …
I do therefore … issue this proclamation … appointing … a day of public and solemn Thanksgiving and Prayer to Almighty God …
Given under by hand … this 11th day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1779 … Thomas Jefferson.”
After traitor Benedict Arnold’s plot to betray West Point was thwarted, the Continental Congress proclaimed a Day of Thanksgiving, October 18, 1780:
“In the late remarkable interposition of His watchful providence,
in the rescuing the person of our Commander-in-Chief and the army from imminent dangers, at the moment when treason was ripened for execution …
… it is therefore recommended … a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer … to confess our unworthiness … and to offer fervent supplications to the God of all grace … to cause the knowledge of Christianity to spread over all the earth.”
After British General Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Congress proclaimed a Day of Thanksgiving, October 11, 1782:
“It being the indispensable duty of all nations … to offer up their supplications to Almighty God …
the United States in Congress assembled … do hereby recommend it to the inhabitants of these states in general, to observe … the last Thursday … of November next, as a Day of Solemn Thanksgiving to God for all his mercies.”
After the Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War, Congress recommended that the States declare a Day of Thanksgiving.
Massachusetts Governor John Hancock, who was a former President of the Continental Congress, proclaimed a Day of Thanksgiving, November 8, 1783:
“The Citizens of these United States have every Reason for Praise and Gratitude to the God of their salvation …
I do … appoint … the 11th day of December next (the day recommended by the Congress to all the States) to be religiously observed as a Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer,
that all the people may then assemble to celebrate … that he hath been pleased to continue to us the Light of the Blessed Gospel …
That we also offer up fervent supplications … to cause pure Religion and Virtue to flourish … and to fill the world with His glory.”
After passing the Bill of Rights, which included the First Amendment, Congress requested President George Washington issue a National Day of Thanksgiving, which he did, October 3, 1789:
“Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor–
and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me
‘to recommend to the People of the United States a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness;’
… Now, therefore, I do recommend … Thursday, the 26TH DAY of NOVEMBER …
to be devoted by the People of these United States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be …
That we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble Thanks … for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government …
particularly the national one now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed … to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue.”
A Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania almost caused the new American Republic to fall into chaos.
When is was peacefully resolved, President George Washington proclaimed a National Day of Thanksgiving, September 25, 1794:
“Resolved, in perfect reliance on that gracious Providence which so signally displays its goodness towards this country to reduce the refractory to a due subordination to the law …
To call to mind that, as the people of the United States have been permitted, under Divine favor, in perfect freedom, after solemn deliberation, and in an enlightened age, to elect their own government,
so will their gratitude for this inestimable blessing be best distinguished by firm exertions to maintain the Constitution and the laws.”
On January 1, 1795, President George Washington proclaimed a National Day of Thanksgiving:
“When we review the calamities, which afflict so many other nations … the great degree of internal tranquility we have enjoyed –
the recent confirmation of that tranquility by the suppression of an insurrection which so wantonly threatened it – the happy course of public affairs in general –
the unexampled prosperity of all classes of our citizens; are circumstances which peculiarly mark our situation with indications of the Divine beneficence towards us.
In such a state of things it is, in an especial manner, our duty as people, with devout reverence and affectionate gratitude, to acknowledge our many and great obligations to Almighty God and to implore Him to continue and confirm the blessings we experience …
… I, George Washington, President of the United States, do recommend to all religious societies and denominations, and to all persons whomsoever, within the United States,
to set apart … a Day of public Thanksgiving and Prayer: and on that day to meet together and render their sincere and hearty thanks to the great Ruler of Nations.”
After the War of 1812 was ended with the Treaty of Ghent, President James Madison proclaimed a National Day of Thanksgiving, March 4, 1815:
“The Senate and House of Representatives … signified their desire that a day may … be observed by the people of the United States with religious solemnity as a Day of Thanksgiving and of devout acknowledgments to Almighty God for His great goodness manifested in restoring to them the blessing of peace.
No people ought to feel greater obligations to celebrate the goodness of the Great Disposer of Events and of the Destiny of Nations than the people of the United States.
… His kind Providence originally conducted them to one of the best portions of the dwelling place allotted for the great family of the human race.
He protected … them under all the difficulties and trials to which they were exposed in their early days …
In the arduous struggle … they were distinguished by multiplied tokens of His benign interposition …
He … enabled them to assert their national rights and to enhance their national character in another arduous conflict, which is now so happily terminated by a peace and reconciliation with those who have been our enemies.
And to the same Divine Author of Every Good and Perfect Gift we are indebted for all those privileges and advantages, religious as well as civil, which are so richly enjoyed in this favored land …
… I now recommend … a Day on which the people of every religious denomination may in their solemn assemblies unite their hearts and their voices in a freewill offering to their Heavenly Benefactor of their homage of Thanksgiving and of their songs of praise.
Given … in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen … James Madison.”
Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the first “Annual” National Day of Thanksgiving, Washington, D.C., October 3, 1863:
“In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity …
I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
… And I recommend … they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged,
and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Secretary of State.”
America was spared a global cholera pandemic, as referenced in President Grover Cleveland’s National Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer Proclamation, November 1, 1888:
“On that day let all our people suspend their ordinary work and occupations, and in their accustomed places of worship, with prayer and songs of praise, render thanks to God for all His mercies …
And mindful of the afflictive dispensations with which a portion of our land has been visited, let us, while we humble ourselves before the power of God, acknowledge His mercy in setting bounds to the deadly march of pestilence, and let our hearts be chastened by sympathy with our fellow-countrymen who have suffered and who mourn.
And as we return thanks for all the blessings which we have received from the hand of our Heavenly Father, let us not forget that He has enjoined upon us charity;
and on this day of thanksgiving let us generously remember the poor and needy, so that our tribute of praise and gratitude may be acceptable in the sight of the Lord.”
On the 100th anniversary of Washington’s Inauguration, President Benjamin Harrison issued a National Day of Prayers and Thanksgiving, April 4, 1889:
“George Washington took the oath of office as Chief Magistrate of the new-born Republic.
This impressive act was preceded at 9 o’clock in the morning in all the churches of the city by prayer for God’s blessing on the Government and its first President …
In order that the joy of the occasion may be associated with a deep thankfulness in the minds of the people for all our blessings in the past and a devout supplication to God for their gracious continuance in the future,
the representatives of the religious creeds, both Christian and Hebrew, have memorialized the Government to designate an hour for prayer and thanksgiving on that day.”
In his National Day of Thanksgiving Proclamation, October 29, 1900, President William McKinley acknowledged the charitable help given to the city of Galveston after a hurricane:
“The works of religion and charity have everywhere been manifest …
We have been generally exempt from pestilence and other great calamities; and even the tragic visitation which overwhelmed the city of Galveston made evident the sentiments of sympathy and Christian charity by virtue of which we are one united people.
Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart Thursday, the 29th of November next, to be observed by all the people of the United States, at home or abroad, as a day of thanksgiving and praise to Him who holds the nations in the hollow of His hand …
and that they humbly pray for the continuance of His Divine favor, for concord and amity with other nations, and for righteousness and peace in all our ways.”
President Theodore Roosevelt acknowledged how rare America is in his National Day of Praise and Thanksgiving Proclamation, October 24, 1903:
“During the last year the Lord has dealt bountifully with us …
It behooves us not only to rejoice greatly because of what has been given us, but to accept it with a solemn sense of responsibility, realizing that under Heaven it rests with us ourselves to show that we are worthy to use aright what has thus been entrusted to our care.
… In no other place and at no other time has the experiment of government of the people, by the people, for the people, been tried on so vast a scale as here in our own country in the opening years of the 20th Century.
Failure would not only be a dreadful thing for us, but a dreadful thing for all mankind, because it would mean loss of hope for all who believe in the power and the righteousness of liberty.
Therefore, in thanking God for the mercies extended to us in the past, we beseech Him that He may not withhold them in the future.”
President Franklin Roosevelt had proclaimed the first National Bible Week in 1941. Since then, every session of Congress has designated Thanksgiving week as National Bible Week.
Rep. Mike Johnson stated in a Special session of the U.S. House (CSPAN):
“Recognizing the 77th annual National Bible Week in America … This is a declaration first made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt just weeks before the start of World War II.”
Continuing this tradition, President Donald J. Trump wrote in his Thanksgiving Proclamation, November 23, 2017:
“On Thanksgiving Day, as we have for nearly four centuries, Americans give thanks to Almighty God for our abundant blessings.
We gather with the people we love to show gratitude for our freedom, for our friends and families, and for the prosperous Nation we call home.
… In July 1620, more than 100 Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower, fleeing religious persecution and seeking freedom and opportunity in a new and unfamiliar place.
These dauntless souls arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the freezing cold of December 1620.
They were greeted by sickness and severe weather, and quickly lost 46 of their fellow travelers.
… Those who endured the incredible hardship of their first year in America, however, had many reasons for gratitude.
They had survived. They were free. And, with the help of the Wampanoag tribe, and a bountiful harvest, they were regaining their health and strength.
… In thanks to God for these blessings, the new governor of the Plymouth Colony, William Bradford, proclaimed a day of thanksgiving and gathered with the Wampanoag tribe for three days of celebration.
For the next two centuries, many individual colonies and states, primarily in the Northeast, carried on the tradition of fall Thanksgiving festivities …
We can see, in the courageous Pilgrims who stood on Plymouth Rock in new land, the intrepidness that lies at the core of our American spirit.
Just as the Pilgrims did, today Americans stand strong, willing to fight for their families and their futures, to uphold our values, and to confront any challenge …
… As one people, we seek God’s protection, guidance, and wisdom, as we stand humbled by the abundance of our great Nation and the blessings of freedom, family, and faith.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 23, 2017, as a National Day of Thanksgiving.
I encourage all Americans to gather, in homes and places of worship, to offer a prayer of thanks to God for our many blessings.”
“Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,” (Hebrews 12:28, ESV).
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Happy Thanksgiving, my dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends! Let the stuffing begin.
I don’t want to keep you away from whatever kind of COVID-modified celebration you’re having today. The Briefing doesn’t take holidays off but we do make things a bit shorter when they roll around. I’ll share a few thoughts and we can all be on our way.
This ungodly Chinese Bat Flu has brought out the worst in a lot of people, most of them Democratic elected officials. There have been some Republican transgressors as well, but the majority of the bad actors have been liberal leaders in traditionally liberal states and cities.
Basic rights have been getting trampled upon in the name of public health. Yesterday, Stacey wrote about the latest egregious overreach: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is placing law enforcement COVID checkpoints around the city, giving it a Cold War East Berlin feeling just in time for the holidays.
Here in Arizona, we haven’t been subjected to a third job-killing, pointless lockdown…yet. For that I am most grateful. I shared this on Twitter last night:
As a real American, I tend to make better decisions when the government isn’t all up in my business, telling me what I can’t do. I would love to be at the big Thanksgiving celebration that I was supposed to attend today, but my gut was telling me that it wasn’t a good idea. I got to listen to my gut, rather than the state, and I genuinely am grateful for that.
The plague has amplified leftist assaults on the First Amendment. We know that if a Democrat returns to the White House the Second Amendment will be under assault. Democrats hate due process. So many things in the Constitution that we have enjoyed and taken for granted for so long are being assailed by people who purport to be freedom-loving Americans, many of whom hold some of the highest positions in government.
We must be vigilant, my friends, and not let them prevail.
On this most unusual Thanksgiving Day in this most trying of years, let us be grateful that we are, for the moment, still protected by the Constitution of the United States.
On a personal note, I am most grateful for all of you who read this Briefing every weekday. I’ll be here plugging away trying to avoid gulag time.
As for today, I am going to give thanks for my health and freedom, then happily celebrate this strange Thanksgiving Day by grilling some delicious salmon steaks. There will be no cranberry sauce.
Be safe and enjoy and, once again, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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While many presidential Thanksgiving proclamations are worth revisiting in 2020, President Grover Cleveland’s 1888 proclamation is especially resonant.
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The ARRA News Service is not expected to publish additional articles on Wednesday thru Sunday. It is time for some R and R and catching up with family and friends!Below is a Thanksgiving Quiz developed by Kirby Anderson in 2001. Regardless of the passage of time, facts and truth remain timeless. Good items to share with your family. ~ Dr. Bill Smith, Editor
A Thanksgiving Quiz by Kerby Anderson, Contributing Author: This nation was founded by Christians, and Thanksgiving is a time when we can reflect upon this rich, Christian heritage. But many of us are often ignorant of our country’s origins, so we have put together a Thanksgiving quiz to test your knowledge about this nation’s biblical foundations. We hope that you will not only take this test and pass it on to others, but we also hope that you will be encouraged to study more about the Christian foundations of this country.
1. What group began the tradition of Thanksgiving?
A day of thanksgiving was set aside by the Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony. This colony was the first permanent settlement in New England. The Pilgrims were originally known as the Forefathers or Founders. The term Pilgrim was first used in the writings of colonist William Bradford and is now used to designate them.
2. Why did they celebrate Thanksgiving?
Life was hard in the New World. Out of 103 Pilgrims, 51 of these died in the first terrible winter. After the first harvest was completed, Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving and prayer. By 1623, a day of fasting and prayer during a period of drought was changed to one of thanksgiving because the rain came during their prayers. The custom prevailed in New England and eventually became a national holiday.
3. When did Thanksgiving become a national holiday?
The state of New York adopted Thanksgiving Day as an annual custom in 1817. By the time of the Civil War, many other states had done the same. In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln appointed a day of thanksgiving. Since then, each president has issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation for the fourth Thursday of November.
4. Why did the Pilgrims leave Europe?
Among the early Pilgrims was a group of Separatists who were members of a religious movement that broke from the Church of England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 1606 William Brewster led a group of Separatists to Leiden (in the Netherlands) to escape religious persecution in England. After living in Leiden for more than ten years, some members of the group voted to emigrate to America. The voyage was financed by a group of London investors who were promised produce from America in exchange for their assistance.
5. How did the Pilgrims emigrate to the New World?
On September 16, 1620, a group numbering 102 men, women, and children left Plymouth, England, for America on the Mayflower. Having been blown off course from their intended landing in Virginia by a terrible storm, the Pilgrims landed at Cape Cod on November 11. On December 21, they landed on the site of Plymouth Colony. While still on the ship, the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact.
6. What is the Mayflower Compact?
On November 11, 1620, Governor William Bradford and the leaders on the Mayflower signed the Mayflower Compact before setting foot on land. They wanted to acknowledge God’s sovereignty in their lives and their need to obey Him. The Mayflower Compact was America’s first great constitutional document and is often called “The American Covenant.”
7. What is the significance of the Mayflower Compact?
After suffering years of persecution in England and spending difficult years of exile in the Netherlands, the Pilgrims wanted to establish their colony on the biblical principles they suffered for in Europe. Before they set foot on land, they drew up this covenant with God. They feared launching their colony until there was a recognition of God’s sovereignty and their collective need to obey Him.
8. What does the Mayflower Compact say?
“In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland king, defender of the faith, etc., Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these present solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends foresaid, and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have here under subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our sovereign Lord, King James, of England, France, and Ireland.”
9. Why didn’t the pilgrims sail to the original destination in Virginia?
The Pilgrims were blown off course and landed at Cape Cod in what now appears to be God’s providence. Because their patent did not include this territory, they consulted with the Captain of the Mayflower and resolved to sail southward. But the weather and geography did not allow them to do so. They encountered “dangerous shoals and roaring breakers” and were quickly forced to return to Cape Cod. From there they began scouting expeditions and finally discovered what is now Plymouth. Had they arrived just a few years earlier, they would have been attacked and destroyed by one of the fiercest tribes in the region. However, three years earlier (in 1617), the Patuxet tribe had been wiped out by a plague. The Pilgrims thus landed in one of the few places where they could survive.
10. What role did the lone surviving Indian play in the lives of the Pilgrims?There was one survivor of the Patuxet tribe: Squanto. He was kidnapped in 1605 by Captain Weymouth and taken to England where he learned English and was eventually able to return to New England. When he found his tribe had been wiped out by the plague, he lived with a neighboring tribe. When Squanto learned that the Pilgrims were at Plymouth, he came to them and showed them how to plant corn and fertilize with fish. He later converted to Christianity. William Bradford said that Squanto “was a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation.”
11. What was William Bradford’s proclamation for Thanksgiving?
Three years after their arrival, and two years after the first Thanksgiving, Governor Bradford made an official proclamation of a day of Thanksgiving:
Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as he has protected us from the ravages of the savages, has spared us from pestilence and disease, has granted us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience; now I, your magistrate, do proclaim that all Pilgrims, with your wives and little ones, do gather at the meeting house, on the hill, between the hours of 9 and 12 in the day time, on Thursday, November the 29th, of the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty-three, and the third year since Pilgrims landed on ye Pilgrim Rock, there to listen to the pastor and render thanksgiving to Almighty God for all His blessings.
12. Were the colonists dedicated to Christian principles in their lives on days other than Thanksgiving?
The Pilgrims were, and so were the other colonists. Consider this sermon by John Winthrop given while aboard the Arabella in 1630. This is what he said about the Puritans who formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony: “For the persons, we are a Company professing ourselves fellow members of Christ. . . . For the work we have in hand, it is by a mutual consent through a special overruling providence, and a more than an ordinary approbation of the Churches of Christ to seek out a place of Cohabitation and Consortship under a due form of Government both civil and ecclesiastical.” They established a Christian Commonwealth in which every area of their lives both civil and ecclesiastical fell under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
13. How did the Puritans organize their economic activities
After the first year, the colony foundered because of the collective economic system forced upon them by the merchants in London. All the settlers worked only for the joint partnership and were fed out of the common stores. The land and the houses built on it were the joint property of the merchants and colonists for seven years and then divided equally.
When Deacon Carver died, William Bradford became governor. Seeing the failure of communal farming, he instituted what today would be called free enterprise innovations. Bradford assigned plots of land to each family to work, and the colony began to flourish. Each colonist was challenged to better themselves and their land by working to their fullest capacity. Many Christian historians and economists today point to this fundamental economic change as one of the key reasons for the success of the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
14. What has been the significance of the Pilgrims and their legacy of Thanksgiving?
On the bicentennial celebration of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, Daniel Webster on December 22, 1820, declared the following: “Let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary.”
The legacy of the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving is the legacy of godly men and women who sought to bring Christian principles to this nation. These spread throughout the nation for centuries.
15. How were Christian principles brought to the founding of this republic?
Most historians will acknowledge that America was born in the midst of a revival. This occurred from approximately 1740-1770 and was known as the First Great Awakening. Two prominent preachers during that time were Jonathan Edwards (best known for his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”) and George Whitfield. They preached up and down the East Coast and saw revival break out. Churches were planted, schools were built, and lives were changed.
16. How influential were Christian ideas in the Constitution?
While the Constitution does not specifically mention God or the Bible, the influence of Christianity can plainly be seen. Professor M.E. Bradford shows in his book A Worthy Company, that fifty of the fifty-five men who signed the Constitution were church members who endorsed the Christian faith.
17. Weren’t many of the founders non-Christians?
Yes, some were. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are good examples of men involved in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence who were influenced by ideas from the Enlightenment. Yet revisionists have attempted to make these men more secular than they really were. Jefferson, for example, wrote to Benjamin Rush that “I am a Christian . . . sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others.” Franklin called for prayer at the Constitutional Convention saying, “God governs the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his notice?” While they were hardly examples of biblical Christianity, they nevertheless believed in God and believed in absolute standards which should be a part of the civil order.
18. How important was Christianity in colonial education in America?
Young colonists’ education usually came from the Bible, the Hornbook, and the New England Primer. The Hornbook consisted of a single piece of parchment attached to a paddle of wood. Usually the alphabet, the Lord’s Prayer, and religious doctrines were written on it. The New England Primer taught a number of lessons and included such things as the names of the Old and New Testament books, the Lord’s Prayer, the Apostles’ Creed, the Ten Commandments, the Westminster Shorter Catechism, and John Cotton’s “Spiritual Milk for American Babies.” Even when teaching the alphabet, biblical themes were used: “A is for Adam’s fall, we sinned all. B is for Heaven to find, the Bible mind. C is for Christ crucified, for sinners died.”
19. How important was Christianity in colonial higher education?
Most of the major universities were established by Christian denominations. Harvard was a Puritan school. William and Mary was an Anglican school. Yale was Congregational, Princeton was Presbyterian, and Brown was Baptist. The first motto for Harvard was Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae (Truth for Christ and the Church). Students gathered for prayer and readings from the Scriptures every day. Yale was established by Increase Mather and Cotton Mather because Harvard was moving away from its original Calvinist philosophy and eventually drifted to Unitarianism. The founders of Yale said that “every student shall consider the main end of his study to wit to know God in Jesus Christ and answerable to lead a Godly, sober life.”
20. If Christianity was so important in colonial America, why does the Constitution establish a wall of separation between church and state?
Contrary to what many Americans may think, the phrase “separation of church and state” does not appear anywhere in the Constitution. In fact, there is no mention of the words church, state, or separation in the First Amendment or anywhere within the Constitution. The First Amendment does guarantee freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion.
The phrase is found in a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to Baptist pastors in Danbry, Connecticut in 1802 in which he gave his opinion of the establishment clause of the First Amendment and then felt that this was “building a wall of separation between church and state.” At best this was a commentary on the First Amendment, from an individual who was in France when the Constitution and Bill of Rights were drafted.
—————- Kerby Anderson is a radio talk show host heard on numerous stations via the Point of View Network endorsed by Dr. Bill Smith, Editor, ARRA News Service
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Every Thanksgiving, we make a conscious effort to give thanks. This year, even in the midst of a pandemic, I’d encourage you to be genuinely grateful for everything you may take for granted. There is still so very much. Let’s be thankful that we continue to do so much better on a global scale. Dwelling on apocalyptic headlines might lead some to think otherwise, but a new book by Reason‘s science correspondent Ronald Bailey and the Cato Institute’s senior fellow Marian Tupy shows that this pessimism is unwarranted. In Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know, they outline 78 improving global and U.S. trends that should put a smile on everyone’s face.
My travel etiquette during the coronavirus pandemic has been unadmirable. Since March, I have been to 17 states without taking a single COVID test. I sneezed on airplanes. I shared cigarettes with strangers. I snoozed, maskless, on an eight-hour bus ride through Wisconsin. So of course I’m visiting my in-laws for Thanksgiving. It would be hypocritical not to, after all those other trips. Besides, we’re all healthy people. My wife’s sister is immune. So is her cat, incidentally. Her parents are Gen X, which, I am told, makes them the most likely of us to survive disaster.
This has been the strangest year that I can remember. We are isolated, discouraged, and exhausted. We are divided and politically polarized. We cannot gather together to celebrate Thanksgiving as usual due to COVID-19. As a nation, we are frustrated, yet there is still much to be thankful for during this time of trial. For example, we can go back 400 years to thank the Pilgrims, who fled religious persecution in England in 1620. After enduring delays in setting sail, the loss of a ship, and the deaths of many during their journey across the ocean, they first sighted land on Nov. 9. William Brewster led the Pilgrims in the reading of Psalm 100.
Happy Thanksgiving. We know it’s different this year, but hope that you can find a way to celebrate this day of gratitude in a safe and healthy way. And we thank you, as always, for spending your mornings with us.
Here is what we’re watching on this last Thursday in November.
‘Hang on’: President-elect Biden calls for hope and unity on Thanksgiving amid Covid-19 spike
President-elect Joe Biden said Wednesday that the country is facing a “long hard winter” because of the coronavirus pandemic but called for Americans to unify in their fight against the virus.
Until then, Biden asked Americans not to give into their understandable virus fatigue, and instead redouble their efforts to combat the virus with social distancing, good hygiene and masks.
“I know we can beat this virus. America is not going to lose this war,” he said while offering sympathy to the families of the more than 260,00 people in the U.S. who have died from Covid-19 this year.
While Biden was speaking, President Donald Trump phoned into a gathering of Republican state legislators in Pennsylvania and claimed voter fraud — once again providing no evidence to prove his various allegations.
Supreme Court blocks NY from enforcing Covid-19 limits on religious services
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an injunction late Wednesday blocking New York’s governor from enforcing coronavirus occupancy limits on religious institutions, granting a request from the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and Agudath Israel.
The state had told the court there was no need to act because the restrictions, which were adopted as a way to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, had recently been dialed back.
In a 5-4 decision, the court said the restrictions would violate religious freedom and are not neutral because they “single out houses of worship for especially harsh treatment.”
The move had long been expected after Trump said in March he was “strongly considering” pardoning Flynn, who initially cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election before contending that he had been railroaded by prosecutors who were unfairly targeting Trump.
The White House seized on that narrative as proof that Trump was the victim of a “hoax” investigation.
Despite the pandemic, travel restrictions and a recession, it’s Thanksgiving Day and Americans are observing the traditional holiday in new ways.
With the nation’s top public health officials urging people not to travelorhold large gatheringsso they don’t contribute to the spread of Covid-19, many are going for smaller gatherings with just their immediate household.
For many, that still means a turkey on the table, even if fewer people are around it.
“It’s a grand-looking bird,” said Aaron Bell, an eighth-generation farmer running Tide Mill Organic Farm in Edmunds, Maine, who changed his farming methods to raise smaller birds months ago. “It’s just a tradition that’s been a long time in the making, and it’s not going anywhere.”
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Oh and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will be different this year — but not that much if you usually watch it on TV. NBC will be broadcasting it live from 9 a.m. ET.
Turkey farmers like Carly DelSignore, seen here at Tide Mill Organic Farm in Edmunds, Maine, had to rethink their businesses to meet the demand for smaller birds this year. (Photo: Courtesy Tide Mill Organic Farm)
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There’s a chance President Trump’s pardon of Michael Flynn could backfire some day, The Week reports.
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“This year, our turkey will be smaller and the clatter of cooking a little quieter. There will be no family walks in the cold or playful bickering amongst the grandkids. Like millions of Americans, we are temporarily letting go of the traditions we can’t do safely.”
“It is not a small sacrifice. These moments with our loved ones — time that’s lost — can’t be returned. Yet, we know it’s the price of protecting each other and one we don’t pay alone. Isolated in our own dining rooms and kitchens, scattered from coast to coast, we are healing together.”
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