The History of Columbus Day

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4.7 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Daily Signal Contributor Jarrett Stepman joins us this week on Mass Ave to discuss the history of Columbus Day - and where the Left gets it wrong. Back by popular demand, Genevieve Wood is our "Ask the Expert" guest. She discusses the current political climate, and when she thinks Republicans will secure a major legislative victory.

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0:00.0	And let the great debate begin.
0:05.1	Welcome to Mass Ave.
0:06.5	We're here bringing you conservative news, policy, and insight from the steps of Capitol Hill.
0:10.8	I'm your host, Emily Vanderbush.
0:12.5	And I'm Tommy Binion.
0:14.1	Welcome today.
0:15.3	This is a special recording for Columbus Day.
0:18.4	Happy 17th federal holiday of the year 2017.
0:22.2	Yes.
0:23.0	I didn't know it was the 17th federal holiday.
0:24.1	I made it up, but there sure are a lot of federal holidays.
0:26.7	There are.
0:28.5	Tommy, did you observe Columbus Day growing up?
0:32.1	I think so, yeah.
0:33.5	I mean, you know, we took it off.
0:35.2	We learned a special song, Columbus Sails the Ocean Blue in 1492.
0:40.3	I certainly remember that. It's definitely an American holiday celebrating one of the important figures of our history.
0:49.4	Yeah. In my school district, I grew up out west. We did not get Columbus Day off, but we got the following
0:55.3	Monday off and just called it a fall holiday. But Jared Stepman is going to be joining us to kind of
1:01.4	go over the history of Columbus Day, some of the reasons why maybe some school districts don't
1:06.5	observe it. Yeah, so stay tuned for that. Tommy, what else is going on? Well, last week,
1:11.7	we talked about the tragic shooting in Las Vegas, which is still at the top of the news cycle,
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