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BOSTON, May 9 (UPI) -- An atheist Massachusetts couple failed to prove their children had been harmed by the words "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, the state's highest court ruled Friday. The couple, identified only as "John and Jane Doe," argued their children's rights were violated by the voluntary recitation of the pledge -- including "Under God" -- in the public schools in the Acton-Boxborough district. But the Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously they failed to make their case, saying they had not proved the children had been subjected to bullying, ostracism or any other punishment or mistreatment...

Porky Pig gets an education in FREEDOM!

Now this might well take a lot of caj*nes as they say.But I propose the following.

Jane Kim is a newly elected member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She represents District 6 which includes the low-income Tenderloin District as well as the upscale condos in the city’s trendy South of Market. Kim has refused to join in with the other supervisors to recite the Pledge of Allegiance during meetings. She says she has a problem with the words "with liberty and justice for all." (video) Kim told the San Francisco Examiner: “I don’t believe we are a nation with liberty and justice for all — yet. So a lot of my work is motivated...

No other star of stage or screen, no cowboy or Western hero can compare to the legend that was John Wayne. He became the very embodiment of American values and patriotic pride. All across the Internet you will see John Wayne web pages, just as this one, done in red, white and blue. Seems appropriate somehow. I have collected some Wavs and MP3s of John Wayne talking about America. They make me feel good. They make me feel proud. So I thought I'd share them with you.

San Francisco (AP) -- An atheist seeking to remove the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance and U.S. currency is taking his arguments back to a federal appeals court. Michael Newdow, a Sacramento doctor and lawyer, sued the Elk Grove Unified School District in 2000 for forcing public school children to recite the pledge, saying it was unconstitutional. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Newdow's favor in 2002, but two years later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Newdow lacked standing to sue because he didn't have custody of the daughter on whose behalf he...

"Nayiscawr" Chevy 400 at Richmond this evening had the usual partiotic prelim before "Gentlemen, start your engines!", of course. A local sherrif, I believe it was, drew audible chuckles by muffing the Pledge of Allegience. Hope it was merely a Bush-ism, but it sounded like he intentionally pledged allegience to the flag of the United States of America, for which Republicans stand...?

Just a breaking news bar - the court has thrown out Newdows case on a technicality. Score one for the pledge.

I think Mary Pitman Kitch ("Erasing God at our peril," Nov. 16) is wrong to defend the use of "under God" in "The Pledge of Allegiance." The education of children should be about exposing them to alternatives, teaching them to think and allowing them the freedom to make their own choices, and that includes the freedom to decide whether they can believe in a "God." The religious right seems to think that education is about the indoctrination of children to believe the same things they believe. This country was founded on the principle of religious freedom. We purport to be...

God Is Not in the Constitution We receive our rights from God. —George W. Bush, denouncing the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional because it includes "one nation under God," CNN, June 27 This decision is nuts, just nuts. —Democratic Senate leader Tom Daschle, CNN, June 26 If this decision is not overturned, we will amend the Constitution. —Democratic senator Joseph Lieberman, Fox News, June 26 In 1943, during our war against Hitler, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision concerning the Pledge of Allegiance that created fierce controversy around the...

This best-selling recording was performed by the legendary John Wayne. It's finally available as Duke’s spoken-word CD of poetry. It's a must-have for all patriotic Americans... Track listings: 1. Why I Love Her 2. The Pledge of allegiance 3. The Hyphen 4. Mis Raices Estan Aqui 5. The People 6. An American Boy Grows Up 7. Face the Flag 8. The Good Things 9. Why Are You Marching, Son 10. Taps