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Rights: A Ninth Circuit Court ruling that students can't wear American flag T-shirts because they may offend Mexican students celebrating Cinco de Mayo is a ridiculous yet dangerous assault on the First Amendment. On Sept. 17, more than four years after Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif., sent students home for wearing American flag t-shirts, an 11-judge Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled that it was the right choice, "tailored to avert violence and focused on student safety." The decision upheld the court's three-judge ruling in February that justified the school's actions based on tensions between Mexican...

The United States may break with a controversial tradition and dip its flag to Britain's leaders at the opening ceremony for the London Olympics, U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) CEO Scott Blackmun said on Thursday.

Grand Old Flag

Rick Monday doesn't remember the score, or who won the game. He can't tell you how many hits he got that day at Dodger Stadium. The other details of a Sunday afternoon 30 years ago, though, are forever seared into his memory. The commotion from left field in the bottom of the fourth inning. The sight of two men carrying something running toward left center field. A glint of sunlight off a can. Someone striking a match. And, finally, fans standing as one to sing "God Bless America." "I had goose bumps upon goose bumps 30 years ago when I...