Well it DID originate with the Lincoln administration. During the Civil War. Didn’t actually become an official motto until 1956. Waste of time.
Dr. Demento strikes again!
What a vile....Hadda stop myself before I get banned.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
— John Adams
We have very stupid people in Congress, passing such a meaningless piece of tripe BS is a total waste of time and money. While I trust in God, I do not need the idiots in congress to waste money on something as empty as this bill.
While they steal us blid they pass BS like this.
Obviously Paul wants every state to be able to set their own National motto.
He probably thinks we need 50 National Anthems and why not 50 National flags.
Ron Paul should just run for National President for the state of Texas. He might be able to win that one.
I suggest they all move to France, and if that's too stifling, perhaps Russia.
Ron Paul and Jon Stewart. Is this what American has become? My apologies to those who died in the Revolutionary War.
Putin’s Russia Today has much love for Ron Paul... because Putin’s a champion for freedom and the 10th Amendment, don’t ya’ know.
The only conceivable reason for the Soviets and their Iranian friends to spend this much time and effort propping up Ron Paul is a third-party run that will deliver a second Obama term and finish us off. That so many people could be so impervious to something so obvious is a testament to how dumb this country has become.
Well I dont like Ron Paul then. Simple. Nice how an issue can clear the ranks so easily. Ron thinks state rights trumps God’s rights, then Ron goes PLONK.
Simple, thanks for the post.
Both Ron Paul and Obama are anti semitic as their past actions and politics and policies and words have shown all those who use their minds to think and discern what men really mean when they talk.
And he would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddling Freepers!
Ping for later
Ron Paul is crazier than an outhouse rat!
The second component of the resolution is "supporting and encouraging the public display of the national motto in all public buildings, public schools, and other government institutions." While doing so certainly isn't a bad thing, state and local governments already do display that motto and other mottos and even things like the Ten Commandments if they can without the federal government suing them.
Is it really the federal government's job to tell local and state governments what they should display on their buildings? Do they even have the right to do so? Put another way, when the Democrats had control of the House and the Senate would it have been OK for them to pass a resolution "encouraging" the display of a picture of President Obama in every public school and government building with the phrase "Yes we Can" under it? I think not.
There really is no principled, constitutional reason for the federal government to be telling state and local governments what to display in or on their buildings. In fact, the federal government should butt out of the issue entirely, since usually they are the ones who are forcing state and local governments to remove material which references God from public buildings.
I don't know about your state, but we don't need the federal government telling us what to display in our government buildings. Nobody, not even Ron Paul, is suggesting that the motto itself is a problem. The problem is a federal government who can't leave the state and local governments and the citizens alone. And a bunch of elected representatives who would rather spend time and money voting on resolutions which don't change anything than tackling real problems - like the federal government's open hostility towards religion in public life.
Ron Paul is mentally ill.
God offends his leftist followers. He’s got a cult going. It’s sad to see him fall so low.
Who cares what Ron Paul thinks?
He’s just throwing a bone to his libertarian worshipers.