http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/pledge/ en-us Fri, 2 Jan 2009 00:19:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2157396/posts The U.S. government spends more than $200 million annually on abstinence-promotion programs, including virginity pledges.The latter approach does not work too well.A new study of a federal survey taken in the 1990s finds that teens who took virginity pledges are just as likely as other teens to have sex before marriage. Importantly, when the pledgers broke their vows they were less likely to use birth control, including condoms. Live Science http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2157396/posts#comment Fri, 2 Jan 2009 00:19:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135991/posts Old Glory Radio audio interview with parent at ground zero in Woodbury Vermont concerning the Banning of the Pledge of Allegience in classrooms as reported by the AP and Fox News. 11/21/08 Old Glory Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135991/posts#comment Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:17:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133788/posts Vermont Schools Sends Students Out OF Classroom to Say Pledge of Allegiance Vermont Schools Sends Students Out OF Classroom to Say Pledge of Allegiance http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133788/posts#comment Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:33:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133749/posts Vermont is at it again. This time, residents of the Town of Woodbury - approximately 700 adults - are quarreling over 'how and where' students at the local Elementary School should recite the Pledge of Allegiance. First some background, followed by some legal history, en-route to what may be the underlying story. It seems that "No one's sure when daily recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance fell by the wayside" at Woodbury's 19th-century schoolhouse, which has 55 students in four classrooms covering grades K-6. In September, parent Ted Tedesco, took the initiative and "... began circulating petitions calling for its... GOPUSA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133749/posts#comment Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:25:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118563/posts Hayward Parents Upset Over Anti-Gay Slur Pledge HAYWARD (AP) ― A Bay Area elementary school got caught in the crossfire of a ballot initiative seeking to outlaw same-sex marriage in California on Tuesday after a kindergarten teacher asked her pupils to sign pledge cards promising not to use anti-gay slurs. ProtectMarriage.com, the coalition of social and religious conservative groups sponsoring Proposition 8, offered the episode at Faith Ringgold Elementary School in Hayward as proof for its claim that the measure is needed to prevent public schools from discussing gay unions with students. "Since the words 'between a man and a... AP via KPIX - CBS5 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118563/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:20:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2112136/posts If we cannot get Drudge or FoxNews to ask any of the important questions swirling around the chosen one, then we all need to get ready for a new Pledge of Dependence: The Pledge of Dependence: Obama, Please Help Us False Idol “I pledge my dependence, to Obama, and the United Nations in Gotham. And to the chamber pot, for which they stand, secular multinational cultures, divisible by race, gender, sexual orientation and income brackets, with reparations, free housing, motorized shopping carts, food and healthcare for all. For Obama is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Omen”... Leooshkosh http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2112136/posts#comment Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:10:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098709/posts WASHINGTON – The president's top economic advisers are pledging to work with their counterparts around the world to restore confidence and stability to financial markets roiled by tight credit and worries about a global economic slowdown . The President's Working Group on Financial Markets said in a statement Monday it planned to quickly implement the expanded authorities granted to federal regulators by the $700 billion rescue package passed on Friday. The working group was formed after the 1987 stock market crash. The group, which includes Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, said it planned to move... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098709/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:02:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071127/posts I just found out late last night that my local public high school is not saying the Pledge of Allegiance at any point during the school day. Is this the norm?? This information came to me via a foreign exchange student we are hosting who is in her senior year of high school at our local public institution. We were talking about her first week of school which commenced 8/27 and she said they have not done the pledge even once yet! She knew what it was, she knows the words - she learned them before coming here. But her... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071127/posts#comment Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:15:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069999/posts Don't read their lips when California's Republican lawmakers say 'no new taxes' – they've put it in writing, signed their names, essentially inviting their own party to oust them if they renege. Every GOP lawmaker except Fair Oaks Assemblyman Roger Niello has signed the "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" this year, casting a shadow on budget talks by making any vote to raise taxes a potential career killer. "If you break the pledge, the people who voted for you will say, 'Excuse me, not only did you raise my taxes but you lied to me,' " said Grover Norquist, president of Americans... Sacramento Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069999/posts#comment Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:58:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2067486/posts Local TV stations in Iowa reporting that Shawn Johnson will be doing the Pledge of Allegiance at the DNC convention. Looking for links to the story. Local TV stations in IOWA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2067486/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:41:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057034/posts <p>BEREA, Ohio (AP) - A man who wore press credentials and took photographs from a platform interrupted Barack Obama's town-hall meeting Tuesday by shouting complaints that the Democratic presidential candidate had not called for the audience to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Obama invited the heckler to lead the audience in the pledge, and he did.</p> Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057034/posts#comment Tue, 5 Aug 2008 21:23:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1902458/posts Boulder High School students are planning a protest against the Pledge of Allegiance in the courtyard of their school Thursday morning. Boulder Daily Camera http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1902458/posts#comment Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:28:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036321/posts Who knew that newbie Democrat congressman Jason Altmire (4th District) and Republican congressman Tim Murphy (18th District) would ever "town hall" together? The reason there are no answers is because there were none to be found. Today Murphy and Altmire sent out a news release announcing that they would host two joint town hall meetings together: The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036321/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:16:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036233/posts Last Friday, Newsweek released a poll that had Sen. Barack Obama up 15 points over Sen. John McCain. Today, the LA Times along with Bloomberg released their poll showing Obama up, you guessed it, 15 points over the presumptive Republican nominee. The LA Times/Bloomberg polling data shows in a four-way race that Obama is over McCain 48 percent to 33 percent with independent candidates Bob Barr and Ralph Nader holding a combination of 7 percentage points and the rest are undecided. In a two-way race, Obama's lead narrows only slightly to 12 percentage points. University of Virginia political science professor... The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036233/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:46:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034919/posts Move-On.org is taking a firm stand on a campaign promise that Barack Obama made that said he would filibuster any wiretapping bill that had retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that let the feds listen in on. MoveOn says in the letter “We need him to honor that promise.” The posting urges supporters to tell Obama how they feel by calling his presidential campaign to let him know that “you’re counting on him to keep his word.” Last Friday Obama announced his support for the intelligence surveillance law that is highly unpopular with most left activists; the money, momentum and votes... The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034919/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:41:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033632/posts Bill and Jill Bill Burton, communications director extraordinaire for the Obama campaign reached out and touched someone today on the McCain campaign: his counterpart, Jill Hazelbaker. Here is the content of the email he sent out to reporters before the McCain conference call: “Jill – hope you’re well. We’d like to add our campaign counsel, Bob Bauer to your conference call with Trevor Potter so that we can arbitrate some of the disagreements that the two of them have over the meeting they recently had. If you can please shoot me the dial-in, Bob is available to join for the... The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033632/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:32:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024981/posts When he formally announced his presidential candidacy last year, Sen. John McCain was inches away from making an unprecedented pledge: if he were elected, he would serve only one term as president. It could have been an earth-shifting moment for the campaign and the primary. At the time, McCain’s fundraising pace was falling well short of its target and Republicans were not treating McCain as the frontrunner. The idea to serve one term had long been discussed among top advisers, and McCain was on board. A one-term pledge was set to be the central thread of his presidential campaign, and... The Atlantic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024981/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 21:12:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015730/posts Brandt Dahl wasn't exactly aiming for the Student of the Year Award when he refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance last week at Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Junior High near Moorhead. But I suspect the eighth-grader may have had a little more swagger in his step after publicly setting school administrators there back on their heels. If Brandt's infraction had been a smart-alecky spitball, his one-day, in-school suspension -- one of four meted out to errant students -- might not have been viewed in some quarters as Dilworth's equivalent of Abu Ghraib. But in recent decades, the slightest school pressure to... StarTribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015730/posts#comment Wed, 14 May 2008 11:58:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014642/posts The Human Shield Movement has announced it reached its 10,000th pledge member. The lucky guy to sign on as a Human Shield Volunteer number ten thousand is Steven Morris from Birmingham UK. Morris has pledged to use his body as a “human shield” against an “attack on Iran” from “neo-con” President Bush. Volunteers from 22 countries not from Iran have pledged to travel to the Middle Eastern country at a moment’s notice to place their “human shields” or in simpler terms, their bodies in front of civilian infrastructure in Iran in order to “prevent what they believe would be... DBKP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014642/posts#comment Mon, 12 May 2008 03:43:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013607/posts Three small-town eighth-graders were suspended for not standing at the start of the school day Thursday for the Pledge of Allegiance. "My son wasn't being defiant against America," said Kim Dahl, mother of one of the students, Brandt, who attends Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Junior High School in western Minnesota. Brandt told the Fargo Forum that Thursday's one-day in-school suspension, "was kind of dumb because I didn't do anything wrong. It should be the people's choice." Kim Dahl said the "punishment didn't fit the crime. If they wanted to know why he didn't stand, they should've made him write a paper." She said... Minneapolis StarTribune (aka The Red Star) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013607/posts#comment Fri, 9 May 2008 16:11:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2006344/posts SURVEY Do you agree with Edgerton High School's decision to allow the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish? Yes, I agree with the decision. No, the policy should be changed. I'm not sure. I don't care. Other. channel3000.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2006344/posts#comment Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:48:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997800/posts "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." The Stranger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997800/posts#comment Mon, 7 Apr 2008 05:59:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963318/posts They All Pledge Allegiance, For The School By JOE ELIAS   From left, Andrew Weit, Alex Beitzer and Jared Heisey of the AV Club at Susquenita High School producing a program on the school's closed-circuit TV network. The students recently recruited well-known locals to be filmed reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. (Photo by John C. Whitehead)     DUNCANNON, Pa. — Michael Bruetsch has stopped being surprised every time the word "indivisible" is botched while someone recites the Pledge of Allegiance.Add a video camera, and he almost expects it to happen."If people are going to make a mistake, that's where... Newhouse News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963318/posts#comment Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:58:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963113/posts Kim Jong-il in Baffling China Pledge North Korean leader Kim Jong-il caused some head-scratching when he unexpectedly pledged not to break faith with China in a meeting with a high-ranking Chinese official. Kim met Chinese President Hu Jintao’s special envoy Wang Jiarui, the head of the international department at the Central Committee of China’s Communist Party, in Pyongyang on Wednesday. According to China’s Xinhua news agency, Kim said his country “will not betray and break faith with China.” He told the Chinese special envoy that friendship between North Korean and China is a precious asset left by the two countries’... Chosun Ilbo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963113/posts#comment Fri, 1 Feb 2008 11:29:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961745/posts The New Hampshire Union-Leader has a new term for Granite State voters who gave Hillary Clinton her surprise victory over Barack Obama: suckers. In a scalding editorial, the state's most significant newspaper rips Hillary for breaking a pledge she signed in New Hampshire not to campaign in states that broke the scheduling rules or to seek to have their delegates seated. They bluntly call her a liar: COURTING VOTERS in Iowa and New Hampshire, last August Sen. Hillary Clinton signed a pledge not to "campaign or participate" in the Michigan or Florida Democratic primaries. She participated in both primaries and... Captain's Quarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961745/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:34:20 GMT