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The person who posted the video wrote: "The Dean of the school lied! [. . .] The kids chant, "Obama's speech on race to America!" That was March of this year!!!!!!!!!! Also. for anyone that thinks this is no big deal, why did the school pull it ASAP? This was pulled after the school was contacted. Watch it...it's sick. I did not make this video, but I did save a copy yesterday when it had only 250 views. I'm just reposting so everyone can see it." [Caps lowered from the original so as not to be obnoxious]

While to some folks the idea of dual citizenship might seem benign, it can greatly effect a person’s emotional attachment and identification with this country. Emotional attachment and identification with a country contributes greatly to a person’s willingness to make sacrifices and stand in harms way to defend our home, values and ideals. Still, dual citizenship has become acceptable because instead of promoting assimilation, diversity has become the mantra of our public institutions, undermining what traditionally binds us together; the shared values and political beliefs that make us one people… This notion and the idea that there are no consequences...

Supreme Court justices take an oath promising to "faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties . . . of the Supreme Court of the United States under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God." They do not take an oath to "faithfully and impartially perform all duties . . . except when personally offended, or when having pangs of empathy for the poor or trying to be a standup guy or gal." Listening to Barack Obama, you may think they do. And though the Bush administration cared little for the Constitution, the next...

"At the mere mention of doing the pledge there were groans and boos. Then, when the district chair put the idea of doing the Pledge of Allegiance up to a vote, it was overwhelmingly voted down. One might more accurately say the idea of pledging allegiance to the flag (of which there was only one in the room, by the way, on some delegate’s hat) was shouted down."

It is my contention that the federal government can be fixed starting with the 111th Congress by amending/expanding the oath of office that all members of both houses of Congress take as follows: Current Oath of Office for Congress (House and Senate) I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Student leaders at a California college have touched off a furor by banning the Pledge of Allegiance at their meetings, saying they see no reason to publicly swear loyalty to God and the U.S. government. The move by Orange Coast College student trustees, the latest clash over patriotism and religion in American schools, has infuriated some of their classmates -- prompting one young woman to loudly recite the pledge in front of the board on Wednesday night in defiance of the rule. "America is the one thing I'm passionate about and I can't let them take...

Bainbridge Island, WA More people on the island are entering the debate about whether the Pledge of Allegiance should be recited at City Council meetings — something that hasn’t been done until recently. The local chamber of commerce, fearing widespread media attention, has sent out an e-mail urging city and chamber leaders to back Old Glory. And Council member Jim Llewellyn, who personally opposes the practice introduced by Councilman Bill Knobloch, doesn’t appear to be backing down. Last week, Llewellyn polled his colleagues via e-mail about whether the Pledge has a place at City Council meetings. He and at least...

On Bainbridge, Reciting Pledge Makes Some Edgy City council finds itself divided and digging in on both sides of the dispute.More people on the island are entering the debate about whether the Pledge of Allegiance should be recited at City Council meetings -- something that hasn't been done until recently. The local chamber of commerce, fearing widespread media attention, has sent out an e-mail urging city and chamber leaders to back Old Glory. And Council member Jim Llewellyn, who personally opposes the practice introduced by Councilman Bill Knobloch, doesn't appear to be backing down. Last week, Llewellyn polled his colleagues...

THERE'S something unseemly about banning flag burning, let alone amending the Constitution to make a ban possible. And the unseemliness extends beyond the obvious concerns over freedom of expression. Now, I love the flag. One flies on our front porch, not just on Fourth of July weekend, but year-round. I'm appalled by those who would burn the flag, as well as by those who do the intellectual equivalent by buying into the pernicious blame-America-first ideology. Yet a flag-burning amendment, like the one the U.S. Senate narrowly rejected last week, takes us to the opposite extreme. Instead of profaning Old Glory,...

US Senate (Oath or Affirmation) (Same Rule III Oaths The oaths or affirmations required by the Constitution and prescribed by law shall be taken and subscribed by each Senator, in open Senate, before entering upon his duties.) Oath Required By The Constitution And By Law To Be Taken By Senators: "I, A__ B__, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of...

Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America Oath: "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; -- that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; -- that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; -- that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; --...

"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; or that I will perform noncombatant service in the armed forces of the United States when...

Why the Pledge of Allegiance Matters--Speech by Tom McClintock There is a reason behind the movement to strike the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance--and from our national customs, and our currency, and our public ceremonies. It has very little to do with atheism. It has a great deal to do with authoritarianism. The philosophy of the American Founding is unique among the nations of the world because of a bedrock principle that was given expression with words in the Declaration of Independence that are old and familiar, and yet not often pondered these days. In the American...

130 countries represented at ceremony After waiting in messy traffic, enduring long lines and ending up in one of the worst seats in the house, Aurelia Gheletca had an excuse to be grumpy. But as she filled in the little squares on a voter registration form for the first time and readied to wave her small American flag, the Anaheim woman was positively radiant. "Today, my dream has come true," said Gheletca, 56, who left her native country of Romania nearly 16 years ago to find political and religious freedom. "I am so happy because I am finally an American."...

The Minutemen will be starting the first leg tomorrow, led by FReeper Lyman Stucky's patriotic pace car. We want the borders sealed! Allegiance is not an option! Citizenship Requires Allegiance-- if you refuse to pledge and prove Allegiance to The United States Of America and OUR Flag, Where, WHERE, IS your Allegiance? -- FReeper Lyman Stucky (The Spirit Of Allegiance), May 1, 2006 Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. -- Theodore Roosevelt Hi, Fellow Americans and Neighbors. I'm glad you're here. I own and drive The Spirit Of Allegiance...

Here is an excellent video of the Pledge of Allegiance as recited by Red Skelton. It's on YouTube and I hope you'll enjoy it. http://youtube.com/watch?v=a6Kt_D4MegM

SACRAMENTO (AP) - A federal judge said Monday he is inclined to dismiss part of a lawsuit brought by a Sacramento atheist who claims the Pledge of Allegiance is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton said he would allow Michael Newdow, a doctor and lawyer, to sue four Sacramento-area school districts where children he is representing attend and recite the pledge. The judge said Newdow could not challenge the pledge itself and the words "under God," which Congress inserted in 1954. "What I'm doing is cutting out a whole lot of your case and making it...

"The Secret Revolution of Mexico and the Congress OF the United States!" by an American Patriot July 15, 2005 To the Members of Congress: WAKE-UP!!! a drug dealer is not an "unlicensed pharmacist" a burglar is not an "uninvited guest" and an "illegal alien" is not an "undocumented immigrant" or an "illegal immigrant" – they're "ILLEGAL INVADERS" in violation of the laws of nations!       The United States is "occupied territory" – occupied by Mexican nationals and "other than Mexican" with no allegiance to this country and the Senate of the United States voted NOT to fund the hiring for...

DENVER -- The students in Vincent Pulciani's seventh-grade class were reciting the Pledge of Allegiance this week when they heard the voice over the intercom say something they'd never heard before, at least not during the Pledge. Instead of "one nation, under God," the voice said, "one nation, under your belief system." The bewildered students at Everitt Middle School in Wheat Ridge never even got to "indivisible," according to Vincent's mother, Christina Pulciani-Johnson.

Jeffco school's counselor alters phrase 'under God' By Jennifer Miller, Rocky Mountain News April 22, 2005 JEFFERSON COUNTY - Seventh-grader Bailey Pierce, hand pressed against her heart, was reciting the Pledge of Allegiance when the voice over the intercom said something that stopped her cold.

DENVER (AP) - A judge ruled Wednesday that a town can hold a recall election to decide whether to oust a trustee for remaining seated during Pledge of Allegiance at Town Board meetings. U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham ruled that citizens have a right to disagree with Estes Park Trustee David Habecker and that recall organizers did nothing wrong when they gathered more than 200 signatures supporting the effort. The judge withdrew a temporary injunction that had blocked a recall election that had been scheduled for Feb. 15. The injunction was issued after the trustee filed a lawsuit to stop...

Pledge Dad sues to ban ministers at oath Published 1/14/2005 2:07 PM WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Atheist Michael Newdow wants a U.S. district judge to ban prayers by clergy at the president's inauguration ceremony, the Washington Post said Friday. Newdow, a California doctor and lawyer who sued to have the words "under God" stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance in 2003, told the court that prayers offered by two Protestant ministers during the Jan. 20 ceremony when the president takes his oath of office would violate his constitutional rights. "This is like the Super Bowl, the Olympics. It's a...

Roger Nash Baldwin was the founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and a notable American Communist. These are facts. Now, read his words: “I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is, of course, the goal."— Harvard Class Book of 1935, spotlighting Baldwin's class of 1905 on its thirtieth anniversary.[1] “Do steer away from making it look like a Socialist enterprise...We want also to look like patriots in everything we do. We want to get a good lot of flags, talk a good deal about...

DENVER -- A recall election is now set for an Estes Park, Colo., trustee who refuses to stand up and recite the Pledge of Allegiance during the Town Board meetings.I have not been standing for the Pledge of Allegiance due to a conflict I have with the wording of the pledge, specifically the words 'under God,'" Councilman David Habecker said. Habecker said it's a violation of church and state to include the words in the pledge and for that reason, he won't stand.The board began reciting the pledge before meetings earlier this year at the suggestion of Trustee Lori...

In Estes Park, there's discomfort on all political sides that the flap over a town trustee's refusal to recite the Pledge of Allegiance is redefining the community. "Estes Park is becoming known as a town that wants to recall someone instead of as a tourist attraction," said Linda Wagner, a 12-year resident.

Generally, most Americans blindly accept our national values and traditions without question or doubt. Most twentieth century Americans have been so occupied with living the "good life" of ease, pleasure and materialism that they have neglected to safeguard their culture, Christian faith and philosophical heritage. Many strange ideas and foreign concepts have crept into the average American psyche without notice or question and, therefore, have become mainstream thought patterns which set a standard by which our society is governed. Once example of this condition is the lack of knowledge concerning the history behind the writing of the Pledge of Allegiance...

One Nation Under God, By Brenda Stocks A college professor, an avowed Atheist, was teaching his class. He shocked several of his students when he flatly stated that there is no God, the expression, "One Nation Under God", was unconstitutional, and further, he was going to prove there is no God. Addressing the ceiling he shouted: "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you 15 minutes!" The lecture room fell silent. You could have heard a pin fall. Ten minutes went by. Again he taunted God, saying, "Here I am,...

Zarqawi Movement Vows al-Qaida Allegiance Sun Oct 17,10:02 PM ET By RAWYA RAGEH, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - The most feared militant group in Iraq, the movement of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, declared its allegiance to Osama bin Laden on Sunday, saying it had agreed with al-Qaida over strategy and the need for unity against "the enemies of Islam." The declaration, which appeared on a Web site often used as a clearinghouse for statements by militant groups, began with a Quranic verse encouraging Muslim unity and said al-Zarqawi considered bin Laden "the best leader for Islam's armies against...

www.JB-Williams.com Written by: JB Williams ©2004-10-12 Let’s pretend for a moment that Good and Evil both exist on earth. That issues aren’t only a matter of one’s perspective, but that real facts exist and they don’t have a side. That “gray area’s” are just mind bending attempts to justify the unjustifiable. That America is not divided along socio-economic lines, but rather by opposing forces with very different agenda’s. Let’s pretend that we no longer have the luxury of walking the tightrope of indecision, or sitting on a politically correct non-committal fence, void of moral or ethical conviction. Let’s pretend that...

WASHINGTON - Justices once again are considering a case involving the Pledge of Allegiance. Justices were asked this year whether the pledge and its reference to God belong in public schools. They got rid of the red-hot case without ruling on that issue. Now, a Colorado man wants the court to decide if the oath belongs in courthouses. Frank Herbert Wonschik was convicted of possessing parts for a machine gun in 2002 by a jury that recited the pledge after hearing a patriotic speech from the judge. His federal public defender, Jill Wichlens, said in court papers that judges hearing...

"A bill passed by Congress on Thursday would strip the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts of the authority to hear cases regarding the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. The legislation passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 247-173. It still needs approval of the U.S. Senate, which is unlikely to advance the bill this year."

East Nassau-- Panel bows to pressure from veterans, others by ensuring oath will be recited at meetings Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance is back on the agenda at village trustee meetings after a storm of protest followed its removal in April.Veterans groups were prepared to converge on the meeting Monday night of the Tsatsawassa Protective Volunteer Fire Department board to urge fire officials to bar village elected officials from holding their regular meetings in the department's social room if they were not going to start their meetings with the pledge. The village of 571, created in 1997 from the hamlets...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Jim McDermott, a Washington Democrat who criticized President Bush while visiting Baghdad, omitted the words "under God" as he led the House in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance this week.</p> <p>McDermott, of Seattle, was one of seven lawmakers who voted against a House resolution last year condemning a federal appeals court ruling that reciting the pledge in public schools is unconstitutional because of its reference to God.</p>

A college professor, an avowed atheist, was teaching his class. He shocked several of his students when he flatly stated he was going to prove there is no God. Addressing the ceiling he shouted: "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you 15 minutes!" The lecture room fell silent. You could have heard a pin fall. Ten minutes went by. Again he taunted God, saying, "Here I am, God. I'm still waiting." His count-down got down to the last couple of minutes when a Marine just released from active duty...

When the sun rose June 26, 2002, the Pledge of Allegiance wasn't on our minds. Preparing for Fourth of July festivities was about the most patriotic thing on the public's agenda. The nation's focus was elsewhere. President Bush was calling for the ouster of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Worldcom had admitted to a multibillion-dollar accounting fraud. Ann Landers had died. And here in the Bay Area, San Francisco Giants stars Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent were slugging each other instead of baseballs. But then the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dropped its red-white-and-blue bombshell. The San Francisco-based court, already...

The other day, Sen. Zell Miller, the Right's favorite Democrat, gave a compelling speech in which he lamented the "deficit of decency" in America and pondered ways by which we might regain our moral bearings. During the speech he noted the many attacks on morality by the "Culture of Far Left America" and an out-of-control federal judiciary, remarking that it's happening in a number of areas "whether it is removing a display of the Ten Commandments from a Courthouse or the Nativity Scene from a city square" or "eliminating prayer in schools or eliminating 'under God' in the Pledge of...

Raising Cain's ID: The pizza man says, 'Let's you and him fight; I'll just sit here in the television set.' Political Insider (Galloway and Tharpe) AJC http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/insider/index.html Herman Cain might be the least-known candidate in the Republican race for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, but on Monday he became the first candidate out of the gate with statewide television ads. Cain, the former chief executive officer of Godfather's Pizza, began running a series of televised ads in which he introduces himself to Georgia voters and blasts "liberal judges," the current U.S. tax code and the "Hollywood crowd attacking our president."...

Bush Country just received a rather disturbing email from one of our regular site visitors, Reverend Austin Miles.  In it, Rev Miles discloses that Michael Newdow (the atheist behind the Pledge of Allegiance lawsuit) is now a member of the State Bar of California and is apparently using that authority as an officer of the court to not only further his atheistic agenda but to harass Christians as well. Bush Country ask that you forward this information to major media outlets and those on your email list, so they can report on what is going on. Here are the...

<p>DENVER — A federal judge has issued a restraining order preventing Colorado school officials from requiring students to say the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of each school day.</p> <p>Last Friday, a federal judge issued a temporary injunction against a Colorado law that required public school students and their teachers to recite the 31-word Pledge, first adopted in 1892, in school.</p>

Hello all. I took my son to his first day of first grade today. Yes, it's a government school. The children had to line up outside. Another mother and I were waiting inside the classroom for the children to come in. She was of Mexican origin but spoke English very well. I told her that the teacher seemed very nice (we had met the teacher last night at back to school night). She asked me if the teacher spoke Spanish. I told her I didn't know. She said that last year her daughter had attended kindergarten in Denver and was...

Improving the Pledge of Allegiance We recently received the following memo from an obscure blog on Salon.com. We are not sure it is 100% genuine so we thought we'd share it here so that others might comment. To: The Central Committee to Make the Pledge Good Instead of Evil and Old and in the Way. From: Newspeak Central Re: The Way Cool New Pledge Dudes and Dudettes and Other Cool Persons Currently Between Genders, At your command Newspeak Central has spent some time reviewing the "old and in the way" Pledge of Allegiance. The result, below, is what we have...

<p>Nancy Chávez is the kind of student who has success written all over her: The Reedley High School senior has a 3.8 grade-point average and hopes to become a nurse or a dental assistant.</p> <p>Unfortunately, those are just dreams for the moment because Nancy is one of about 65,000 undocumented immigrant students nationally who will graduate this year with little chance of attending college and almost no chance of putting a college degree to work.</p>

This is a letter to the editor in the latest "Baptist Standard": If I make no mistake, Dwight Eisenhower was the person instrumental in inserting "under God" into our Pledge of Allegiance. Our forefathers knew what they were doing when they drew up the pledge as they did. We are now paying for President Eisenhower's move, and we will go on paying. Not everyone in the United States is going to conform to our beliefs. I am a Christian, and I love my Lord and my country, just as countless other Christians do who want us to voice this pledge...

WASHINGTON -- President Bush signed into law on Wednesday a bill reaffirming -- with a slap at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals -- references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance and national motto. Bush signed the legislation without comment. It reinforces support for the words "under God" in the pledge, and for "In God we trust" as the national motto. The measure was approved unanimously in the Senate and drew just five no votes in the House. Congress rushed to act after the federal appeals court in California ruled in June that the phrase "under God," inserted...

<p>Should the words "under God" be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance?</p>

It was an awkward moment during a citizenship ceremony hosted by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday in Coronado. Twenty-six immigrants were sworn in as U.S. citizens by a federal judge and then came the moment of truth – not so much for the 26 new Americans as for the hundreds of judges, lawyers and others participating in the 9th Circuit Court's annual conference at the Loews Coronado Bay Resort. It is customary for the presiding judge to lead everyone in the recital of the Pledge of Allegiance near the end of a naturalization ceremony. But a 9th...

<p>Hermeneutics is the study of the methodological principles of interpretation. Many people think that all a translator does is choose equivalent words from one language to translate another. It is not as simple as that. Most of the time there are no equivalent words, and even if there are they carry different connotations. Translation also requires interpretation.</p>

What does "God" mean? When you take the SATs there is a section on analogies. You know those great questions like, "Wolf is to Pack as Lion is to _____." Now think of this in the since of the worlds religions. Here are a few examples: Buddha is to Buddhism as Jesus is to Christianity. (Buddha and Jesus were men who walked the Earth, prophets if you will) Vishnu is to Hinduism as Zeus is to Greek Mysticism. (Vishnu and Zeus are specific names for God placed by a particular culture) Allah is to Islam as Yahweh is to Judaism....

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said on Wednesday, June 26 that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional. The court ruled that the words "under God" is a particular endorsement of religion that violates the Constitution's Establishment Clause requiring a separation between church and state. An atheist, Michael A. Newdow of California, whose daughter attended a local elementary school, filed the lawsuit. The suit claims that the Pledge of Allegiance being recited by a teacher harms her rights. However, breaking revelations surrounding the case have led people to question the legitimacy of the suit. Based on information obtained by...

The Nuge speaks out on the Pledge of Allegiance on Steve and DC. (Requires RealPlayer.)