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President Obama and his family this morning went to Easter Sunday services at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. Here are notes on the Easter service from the pool reporter, which included this part, "It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back ... for blacks to be back in the back of the bus ... for women to be back in the kitchen ... for immigrants to be back on their side of the border":

For Bush, a day of positive signs After Easter services with freed POWs, he offers optimistic view of Syria, Iraq's future 04/21/2003 By G. ROBERT HILLMAN / The Dallas Morning News FORT HOOD, Texas – President Bush, offering an upbeat Easter assessment of Iraq's future, said Sunday that Syria was "beginning to get the message" not to harbor leaders of the deposed regime of Saddam Hussein. "There's some positive signs," he said, noting that Secretary of State Colin Powell would be visiting Syria soon to continue the diplomatic full-court press. After attending church services at Fort Hood with his family...

Just to prove that there is an exception to every rule (in this case the rule is 'there's no such thing as a dumb question'): This was just on Fox. Don't know the last names, but the studio anchor named Katherine (sp?), short black hair, was talking to William (seen him a zillion times but can't think of his last name) embedded with the 3rd ID in Baghdad. He's outside of Saddam's palace, midday Sunday, where an army chaplain is leading a service for the troops... K: "I'm sure you've spoken to many members of the 3rd ID, and uhhh,...