Independence Day is coming up. Time to visit the flawed history
Release Date: 06/30/2025
The News Ain't Good These Days: Take a Silly Celebration Break
Equal Time with Martha Burk
What with lousy politics, floods, guns everywhere you look, and fools on the Hill, there’s not much to feel good about in the news. So let’s take a break and mark this week with some celebrations you probably don’t know about.
info_outline
Hegseth Torpedoes Ship Names Honoring Heroes
Equal Time with Martha Burk
Last June Secretary of the Navy Pete Hegseth announced the renaming of eight U.S. naval ships. The decree came during Pride month, when Hegseth gleefully celebrated the renaming of the USS Harvey Milk, which had honored the prominent gay civil rights activist. So it’s no surprise that the seven ships remaining on Hegseth’s current hit list all honor women and minorities.
info_outline
Labor Day: Do Workers Get the Gold Mine? Or Maybe the Shaft?
Equal Time with Martha Burk
This week we celebrate Labor Day, honoring American workers. It’s been celebrated every year since 1894, when President President Grover Cleveland signed the law making the first Monday in September a national holiday. Bur how are our workers really doing?
info_outline
School’s In: What Will the Kid’s Be Packing
Equal Time with Martha Burk
Will students heading back to college this month be packing heat along with the books and booze? The campus vigilante group Students for Concealed Carry claims to have 350 chapters on college campuses – to keep the students safe of course.
info_outline
An Important National Anniversary: Western States Led the Pack
Equal Time with Martha Burk
August 26th marks a momentous day in U.S. History, but many Americans don’t know about it, a few celebrate or mark it in any way. What is it? Listen up and find out.
info_outline
Black Friday’s for Christmas Shopping: But Black August? Try This
Equal Time with Martha Burk
I thought I knew about most of US History, at least in passing. Boy, was I an ignoramus. You may be too. Here's the skinny.
info_outline
The Dog Days of Summer are Here: Let's Take Inventory
Equal Time with Martha Burk
The Dog Days of Summer aren't actually about dogs -- but the stars and ancient peoples. Still, here are a few humandogs to think about.
info_outline
A Landmark Anniversary, and Today's Threat to the Results
Equal Time with Martha Burk
President Lyndon Johnson made history on July 30, 1965, when he signed two laws that would greatly improve the lives of Americans. Both have worked well, and are now under siege.
info_outline
A Mystery Almost a Century Old: Solved at Last?
Equal Time with Martha Burk
It’s come around again- one of the most enduring mysteries of modern times. In July 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared in an attempt to fly around the world.
info_outline
Don't Get Caught by the Latest Taboo
Equal Time with Martha Burk
If you've been thinking things couldn’t get any worse in the good 'ol USA, think again. Trump’s watchful government has guarded our virtue by banning a slew of words.
info_outlineWhen the Declaration of Independence was written, the "fathers of our country" looked in the mirror, and guess what they saw?