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It's not "nearly 10,000" signatures. It's 16,000+ signatures. And while your reporter couldn't get a comment from the NRSC, the NRSC's Chairman John Ensign was interviewed at length, by me, on yesterday's program and the transcript posted on the web. In fact, over the past 40 hours, I have conducted five interviews with Republican senators on the absurd dance of the resolutions underway in the Senate: Norm Coleman, John Cornyn, John Ensign, Jon Kyl and John Thune. All the transcripts are posted. Together they provide the most comprehensive coverage of the Republican internal debate over how the war will supported...

Excerpt - In what police describe as a "probable" suicide leap, a prominent Monterey Bay Area attorney fell at least nine floors to his death at the Embassy Suites Hotel Monterey Bay in Seaside the morning before Christmas. Shortly before 9:30 a.m. Sunday, officers found the body of Aptos attorney Paul Sanford in the west end of the hotel lobby, where he had landed on a large ventilation grate. Police Capt. Steve Cercone said horrified guests were eating breakfast in the atrium at the time, and a number of witnesses saw Sanford fall from somewhere between the 9th and 12th...

<p>The big debate now before the United States Supreme Court is over whether the words "under God" should remain in the Pledge of Allegiance as recited by schoolchildren.</p> <p>I've been doing some research into the matter and after careful consideration I have to say that it's not the phrase "under God" that's troubling. It's the pledge itself.</p>

Last year, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court holding that under God in the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court, absent Justice Scalia, who has recused himself, will hear arguments today as to whether to uphold the ruling or allow children and others to continue to recite those familiar words. In yesterday’s New York Times, columnist David Brooks made a great suggestion for the justices. He assigned as bedtime reading the book A Stone of Hope by David L. Chappell. Chappell’s thesis is that without America’s religious beliefs, we never would have had a...

Michael Newdow, the Sacramento atheist who has taken on the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools, got a chance Tuesday at Santa Clara University's law school to test the legal skills he'll need in two weeks when he argues before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Phyllis Schlafly Aug. 27, 2003 Federal court decisions about the Pledge of Allegiance and the Ten Commandments, and the specter raised in Lawrence v. Texas that marriage may no longer be defined as the union of a man and a woman, show that the time has come to curb the Imperial Judiciary. Not only did one federal judge overturn a nearly 60 percent majority of California voters who passed Proposition 187 in 1994, but another single federal judge in Sacramento is at this moment threatening to cancel the California recall election! Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers 78, 81...

Selfless acts in response to Support Our Troops  and the attack on our Nation's Traditions.While PDN was on the air last night with KFBK's Mark Williams, an email arrived. We had been talking about public schools, The Pledge and "So help me God" being removed from oaths of office and swering in witnesses in court. After the call, I opened the e-mail.  It read in part: "When you spoke of the message that's being sent to our kids, I knew I had to email you. I've been very concerned with preserving our countries freedom, supporting our armed forces, and the...

Father, Forgive, for We Know What We Are Doing Sanctity of Human Life Sunday January 27, 2002 Exerpt from a Sermon by John Piper: We know what we are doing because 27 States (including Minnesota) treat the killing of an unborn child as a form of homicide (http://www.unitedforlife.org/fh_statutes.htm). That is, they have what are called "fetal homicide laws." Other states (besides these 27) have different kinds of penalties for attacks on women that result in harm to the baby she is carrying. For example, in Minnesota in 1987, a teenage girl 6 ½ months pregnant went with her boyfriend on...

Is It Unconstitutional To Ask Children In Public Schools To Recite the Pledge of Allegiance? Day 2, 04:16 PM EST (Results are delayed 15 minutes)Total Votes: 56,624 percent votes Yes (7,520)    (13%) No (49,104)    (87%)

<p>The Pledge of Allegiance, the 110-year-old American loyalty oath which precedes most school days and public meetings, is an expression of what most people think and therefore should be preserved, people throughout Tompkins County said Thursday.</p> <p>A federal appellate court's ruling Wednesday that the Pledge was unconstitutional because of the phrase "under God" led many to react with scorn, while a smaller group thought it was a well-reasoned decision.</p>