Tag Archives: Patriotism

I've watched several documentaries this week on the September 11 attacks on America. Can it really be 20 years since that terrible day?

Comedian Red Skelton told an emotional story about the Pledge of Allegiance on his show in 1969. He later said it wasn't entirely true.

Some Nike customers have been showing their displeasure with the brand over its decision to use football player Colin Kaepernick in ads.

Most of us celebrate the first Monday in September by enjoying a day off from work, but here's what you should know about Labor day.

As everyone is preparing for cookouts, fireworks and family time to celebrate Independence Day, here are a few fun facts about the Fourth of July!

The number of 'silent' protests that involve kneeling during the National Anthem is increasing...but is the message behind the protests being lost?

The AT&T 9/11 ad featured a hand holding a cell phone over the Manhattan skyline with an image of the...

Frank Tanabe knew his time was short. He was battling liver cancer, and at 93, it was clear he wasn't going to win the fight. But Tanabe, a World War II veteran whose family spent time interred in a Japanese-American Camp in the U.S. after the attack on Pearl Harbor, had one mission left that he wanted to accomplish before his death: he wanted to vote one last time.

It was literally a race against time: a question of whether an absentee ballot would reach a 93-year-old Honolulu man before it was too late.

I've worked in television long enough to know that it's pointless to utter phrases like, "Now I've heard everything!" But this is the kind of story, had I not learned said lesson, that might make me say such a thing.

The legendary Aretha Franklin. Jesse McCarney. Steven Tyler. Olympic Gold Medalist Carl Lewis. Roseanne Barr. And most recently, Christina Aguilera....

NBC is says removing words from the Pledge of Allegiance during an opening to U.S. Open Golf coverage was "a...

For more than three decades, Red Skelton was a household name, a top star on radio and television. He started...

Take one look at the tone of all of the political commercials broadcast in the past month during local and...

Over at Everyday Christian, there's a new editorial about the town hall meetings that are turning into shouting matches. The...

"I believe in the United States of America as a Government of the people by the people, for the people,...