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• History repeats itself: Obama doesn’t get that national anthem thing

  
  I Hate the Media Article Feed — Authority: 625
  Remember back during the campaign when Obama didn’t quite get the concept of the national anthem (bottom photo)? Based on recent Veterans Day ceremonies (top photo), he still doesn’t. Maybe things would have been different if they’d been playing the Kenyan national anthem. Related posts: Democratic National ...
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• A 10-year-old kid from Arkansas is my hero.

  
  THE BLARG — Authority: 430
  Why? Because of this . Way to go, Will Phillips! Keep on keeping on! Everyone should refuse to pay their taxes until anyone can marry, -Shady
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• ACLJ Represents 44 Members of Congress in Urging Court to Uphold National Motto & Pledge of Allegiance Displays at Capitol Visitor Center in D.C.

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  ACLJ : "The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) – dedicated to the defense of constitutional liberties secured by law – today filed an amicus brief on behalf of 44 members of Congress asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the engravings of the national motto and Pledge of Allegiance at the ...
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• Red Skelton Explains Our Pledge Of Allegiance

  
  Black Bear Blog — Authority: 524
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• Fifth Grader Will Phillips: Free Speech Microcosm

  
  Political Cartel — Authority: 130
  Will Phillips, a ten year old student in the West Fork Elementary School in Washington County, Arkansas, recently made a stand for gay rights and free speech in his school.  Will is not gay, and neither are his parents.  They do see themselves as straight allies of the gay community, though.  His family is ...
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• LGBT Parenting Roundup

  
  Mombian — Authority: 475
  Schools and Youth Yes, Iowa has marriage equality. They even have a safe schools law that requires inclusion of sexual orientation and gender identity in the state’s Civil Rights Act and anti-bullying policies. Still, the Iowa Pride Network, in its 2009 School Climate Survey, found that more than half of the ...
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• A 10 year-old will Not say the Pledge of Allegiance until we have full Equality

  
  Maybe it's just me... — Authority: 535
  Will Phillips wont pledge allegiance to our country until we (LGBT folks) get full rights. “Ive always tried to analyze things because I want to be lawyer,” Will said. “I really dont feel that theres currently liberty and justice for all.” After asking his parents whether it was against the law not to ...
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• This 10-Year-Old Wont Pledge Allegiance to a Country that Discriminates Against Gays

  
  Queerty — Authority: 730
  Hes got a small voice, and hes just one kid, but 10-year-old Arkansas fifth grader (he skipped a grade) Will Phillips might as well have Barack Obamas ear as much as Joe Solmonese. Thats because Phillips, whos already aware of the gay rights struggle at such a young age, is making a small stand against a nation with ...
  5 days ago

• Desecration by omission

  
  Letters to the Editor — Authority: 141
  I find it ironic, contradictory and at the same time amusing that Republicans are regularly ranting about “desecration of the flag”. But at a huge Republican rally they select a Congressman from Missouri to recite the Pledge — who then, before an…
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• Nancy KO’s The Loons: Congress Passes Health Bill as ReTHUGliLOONS Hang on To ‘Dear ABORTION’

  
  PoliticalArticles.NET - Blog — Authority: 139
  Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House — Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, Democratic lawmakers voted to approve a $1.1 trillion, 10-year plan that they said could be their... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Conversation on Church & State

  
  AnAtheist.Net — Authority: 130
  My previous post on the “In God We Trust” lawsuit inspired the following exchange of views on Twitter (thanks to Twitlonger) between Adam4004 and myself – which is probably fairly representative of the kinds of disagreements that these cases invoke: Adam4004: So you reject originalism & wish judges ...
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• Teabagger Fail: Rep Todd Akin (R-MO) Crows That The Pledge Of Allegiance "Drives Liberals Crazy" But Manages To Forget The Words When He Leads It

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 142
  Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri today led a crowd of Teabaggers in front of the Capitol in a rousing recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. He said it "drives liberals crazy" when people say the Pledge. Well, our skin doesnt burn or anything when you say it aloud, Rep.
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• The Pledge of Allegiance Sneaks Up on Rep. Todd Akin at Yesterdays Teabag Rally

  
  Indecision Forever — Authority: 561
  Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) has a long, rich history with the Pledge of Allegiance , but lets be honest: you go way back with your girlfriend, and you still forget her name sometimes, right? Ive watched this video several times now and I cant decide if the best part is at the end, when Rep. Akin makes a grunting noise ...
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• Republican Congressman muffs Pledge of Allegiance

  
  swimming freestyle — Authority: 483
  Washington DC police estimated that some 3,000 people showed up at the Capitol today to protest against Democratic Party efforts to reform health care.  The so-called " Hands Off Our Health Care !" protest was publicized the last few weeks by Rep. Michele Bachmann, who hoped the protest would be the "Super Bowl of ...
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• Video- Teabagger Rep. Akin Recites Pledge to "Drive Liberals Crazy," Then Botches the Words

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  What a bunch of sanctimonious wanks. Vid via FDL.
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• Breaking News! Alert! Imminent News Conference on Safe Child!

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 549
  I’m sitting here at the shop getting my car’s oil changed, and there’s FOX News playing on the television overhead. I’ve tried to ignore it, but they keep breaking out the snare drums and declaring “ALERT!” “BREAKING NEWS!” First ALERT! BREAKING NEWS! Subject: Live footage of Representative Todd ...
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• Pledge of Allegiance Rewrite

  
  WOK3 — Authority: 440
  O.K., I’ll admit that back in grade school, I wasn’t all that sure why we were saying “One nation under God, Invisible ” until I figured out that I was supposed to be saying “ Indivisible ” instead in the Pledge of Allegiance.  But I was 5 or 6 years old, WTF is this idiots excuse?  Just make it up as ...
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• U.S. courts weigh challenges to wording of pledge of allegiance

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  National Post : "More than 50 years after the words “under God” were inserted into the U.S. pledge of allegiance a new court case could help settle once and for all if those words violate the American tradition of the separation of church and state."
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• Two Firings: Two Sad Signs of Our Times

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
  As a cocky college kid working part time, I once told a supervisor at Met Life who was letting a bunch of us go that I’d been fired from better jobs than this, which may or may not have been true. Getting fired, canned, dismissed, discharged, terminated, let go from a job, part or full time, is often a shot to ...
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• The Democratic National Committee Votes In Favor Of American Flag Desecration

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
  Watch the video at the end of this article to see one more example of why when it comes to passing their health care reform bill, nothing is off-limits when it comes to the DNC. Even if it means the destruction of one of our country’s greatest symbols. Even I never thought that people of the left would stoop so ...
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