By Allan Stevo
October 14, 2025
The federal government should have four-day work weeks.
America will benefit by giving federal employees more time away from their daily redistributive work to do something productive, such as work on a side business. For those who do not wish to be productive, this extra day each week can be used for leisure, spending time with their family, or practicing a hobby. However it is spent, it will be better for the American people than if federal employees are at work.
For this reason, it is hard to have too many federal holidays. Of course, private businesses need not follow the calendar of federal holidays. I, for one, do not recall the last time I took a Monday off of work simply because the government said I should.
Below are 12 more reasons federal employees should get another day off work.
1.) October 14 - Charlie Kirk Day
Charlie Kirk was born October 14, 1993. If politics can be put aside, Kirk is an appropriate representation of American ideals: upstanding, person of faith, open to discussion, well-read, encouraging others to better themselves, to have big families, and to speak truth in the world around them. That is someone emblematic of the finest values of American culture from Plymouth to this day.
But Let's Not Stop There
President Trump should lead the US Congress in adding these 11 other holidays to the federal calendar - days that focus on the heart of what America seeks to represent.
2.) Late August/Early September - Entrepreneurs' Day
To be celebrated the Friday before Labor Day, Entrepreneurs' Day brings into focus the fact that there would be no labor without risk-taking capital and risk-taking entrepreneurship.
3.) November 11 - Mayflower Compact Day
Signed on November 11, 1620, the Mayflower Compact starts, "IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN." It is a testament to the Christian founding of America, a detail not to be forgotten and worthy of annual remembrance.
4.) February 24 - Marbury v. Madison Day
The US Constitution does not offer the judiciary a supreme check on the rest of government. This crappy case does. The unanimous decision, written by John Marshall, was released on February 24, 1803. It should be remembered and debated in perpetuity, even long after it is overturned.
5.) November 2 - James K. Polk Day
This US President, born November 2, 1795, brought the expansion of the US to its present lower 48 boundaries. Though there were gory moments, I am grateful for the decisive people who helped bring America to its present boundaries.
6.) January 6 - Patriots' Day
January 6, 2021 was part of the 2020 color revolution against the American people. After allowing our CIA and State Department to launch color revolutions all over the world from the end of World War Two until the present day, that behavior finally came to be visited upon our own country.
In 2020, the Covid lockdowns, the mail-in ballots, through to the stolen election, and all the way up to Inauguration Day, a color revolution was launched against the American people by its deep state and established interests, who had no desire to see sensible and popular peaceful reform take place through the ballot box.
As many as one million Americans showed up on January 6, in Washington DC to oppose that coup. Thousands of regular people had their lives disrupted for peacefully engaging in protest, a protest at which a very small number engaged in violence. This evil on the part of law enforcement was done with effectiveness and alacrity uncommon in our government.
The movie J6: A True Timeline, succinctly tells the story of that day. Often in too unbiased of a way.
The one million or so people who showed up that day, not paid and bussed in, not funded by their unions, but on their own dime and their own time, were making a bold statement and showing the American people and the deep state that America was still alive and well and would not give up in their pursuit of living in a more free land. The actions of that million or so people are worthy of remembering long into the future. This holiday begs the questions: "What kind of country do we want?" Those pulled into the legal system that day, targeted for retribution, will forever be regarded as heroes.
Making January 6 Patriots' Day has a dual purpose - it provides a day for celebrating Christmas in the old Eastern calendar, as well as for those who celebrate January 6 as Epiphany, or Three Kings, a fitting behavior for a Christian land.
7.) December 20 - Secession Day
December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union. It did this in the spirit of 1776, in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, complaining that the US Government had gotten out of line in the amount of tax it was levying on the people, and for other reasons less significant, but more highly bandied about by history in order to suppress the just nature of secession.
8.) June 30 - Thomas Sowell Day
Thomas Sowell was born June 30, 1930, making this a day to celebrate a great American.
From the earliest days of his ministry to the mid-1960s, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King told a story of the importance of black Americans behaving upright, having strong families, and holding themselves accountable for their own actions. King presented a powerful Christian message on this topic until around 1965 when he began to cater increasingly to a northern urban audience, rather than a southern Christian audience. Though King never abandoned the message of individual accountability, his life has been twisted by his most vocal disciples into one big support for perpetual grievance culture and more welfare programs. Few Americans have their interest served by the divisive manipulation of this topic.
Dr. Sowell takes us in a different, healthier, and far more impressive intellectual direction that supports the American experiment. Sowell has excelled in economics, policy, ethnic relations, the economics of liberty, economics of immigration, social phenomena of all manner, social theory, and has appealed to both an academic audience and a popular audience.
Sowell is worthy of praise, though he has been criticized for glaring mistakes, such as: attempting to describe the real estate boom and bust without considering the role of The Federal Reserve Bank, being a brilliant economist but a terrible philosopher, terrible on foreign policy, and a "useless" historian on the topic of World War Two, improperly researching the work of Jean-Baptiste Say while criticizing Say's Law, misunderstanding the critique of Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk against Karl Marx and erroneously ending up nearly in favor of Marx in his labor theory of value, even showing " a surprising sympathy for Marxism," publishing o ld and overly sympathetic ideas of his on Marxism from his time as a Marxist in the 1960s rather than throwing those ideas in the garbage where they belong, accordingly publishing a book that is entirely pro-Marxist with the exception of its final chapter. These criticisms would not be appropriate to ignore.
Sowell is brilliant in so many areas and is a counterpoint to our overly divisive and toxic mainstream discussions on race and ethnicity in America that his life's work allows for healing and a day to honor him is appropriate.
For example, Sowell dismisses the legacy of slavery argument, claiming it an appeal to emotion rather than based on facts:
"If we wanted to be serious about evidence, we might compare where blacks stood a hundred years after the end of slavery with where they stood after 30 years of the liberal welfare state....Despite the grand myth that black economic progress began or accelerated with the passage of the civil rights laws and 'war on poverty' programs of the 1960s, the cold fact is that the poverty rate among blacks fell from 87 percent in 1940 to 47 percent by 1960. This was before any of those programs began."
Sowell blames the welfare state as a source damage in black homes:
"A vastly expanded welfare state in the 1960s destroyed the black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and generations of racial oppression. In 1960, before this expansion of the welfare state, 22 percent of black children were raised with only one parent. By 1985, 67 percent of black children were raised with either one parent or no parent."
His voice is a welcome one for our era, in which so few people are willing to take responsibility for their own lives.
9.) August 22 - Good Samaritan Day / Iryna Zarutska Day
On August 22, 2025, a woman seeking refuge in the US was murdered by a violent criminal who had been released leniently many times. America has a duty for its guests and for Americans, alike, to keep the country free of crime. This is the day that Americans are reminded of the parable of the Good Samaritan, and encouraged to be helpful to others in need, and in which prosecutors and courts are told to give deference to the one who helps, rather than the one who sits idly by, or even callously walks off. Judges are to be held accountable for their neglect.
10.) Late November - Family Day
The day after Thanksgiving is widely known as Black Friday, a long coveted day by American politicians and retailers to encourage consumer spending in the United States in preparation for Christmas. More appropriate and edifying is to celebrate this as a day focussed on family, whether or not money is spent procuring gifts on this day.
11.) Late November / Early December - Christ The King Day Observed
To be celebrated the Monday after Thanksgiving, bringing Thanksgiving to an even longer weekend. This is a day to celebrate Jesus Christ as Lord over all the earth, appropriate for a Christian country.
12.) August 23 - Dolly Madison Day
On August 24, 1814, Dolly Madison, after her husband provoked a war with Great Britain, was forced out of the White House. She behaved so admirably.
The White House Historical Association writes:
"On August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812, British troops invaded Washington, D.C. First Lady Dolley Madison ordered the Washington painting to be saved, and it was taken down off the wall and sent out of harm's way by a group of individuals-Jean Pierre Sioussat, the White House steward; Paul Jennings, an enslaved worker; Thomas McGrath, the White House gardener; and two men from New York, Jacob Barker and Robert G.L. De Peyster. Later that night, British troops set fire to the White House and destroyed many of the first family's possessions. They could not, however, claim the capture or destruction of George Washington's famous portrait. The portrait currently hangs in the East Room of the White House, paired with a full-length portrait of Martha Washington."
In a letter to her sister, Madison depicts how the President had left the White House to continue governing elsewhere and knew that the evacuation of the White House, if needed, could be handled under her capable charge.
In this behavior by Mrs. Madison, the values of Proverbs 31, are highlighted, values that should be promoted in our culture, rather than the caustic relationships between men and women that contemporary American culture tends to promote. Every upstanding parent can hope to raise such trustworthy daughters as this resilient and sensible Madison.
In contrast to the toxic celebration "International Women's Day," a divisive communist creation, which celebrates a person for simply being born, this is a holiday that celebrates virtue, and encourages discussion of that virtue.
This is the same war in which the Star Spangled Banner was written, September 14, 1814. The effects of that war in the development of central banking in the United States were extensive, as well as taxation, and federalization of power. All of these are important matters, and are further addressed in the existence of the next three holidays I will write about.
What holidays do you think need to be added to the federal calendar of holidays?