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  • What Would A Christian America Look Like?0

    By Rodney Nelson Illustration By Jack Slattery A few years ago a friend of mine paid my way to a family camp sponsored by the American Heritage Party of Washington State. The AHP was a Washington State chapter of the Constitution Party before leaving several years ago and changing its name to the AHP. While

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  • Faith In A Dagger0

    Illustration By Sally Wern Comport Depending on whom you ask, Gurbaj Singh is either a victim of religious intolerance or a troublemaker defying his provincial government, school board, and school. In 2001 the then-12-year-old Sikh from Montreal made headlines when he knocked heads with his school, Sainte-Catherine-Laboure, over his wearing a four-inch (10-centimeter) ceremonial dagger,

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  • Editorial – Executive Summary0

    This morning I unpacked my latest cell phone and tried to turn it on. And tried and tried. To no avail! I pushed every likely button in hopes of getting power up. I even read the summary sheet for start-up. It was cryptic and unhelpful. Finally I called the 800 help line, and a velvet-voiced

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  • Fair Game0

    By Allen M. Jackson Woven into the warp and woof of American culture—a good swath of it, anyway—is the notion of athletics and fair play. For decades school sports have helped lift young people from obscurity into the limelight (Ronald Reagan, Brandi Chastain). And in some parts of the country—most notably Texas—football games all but

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  • Freedom To Speak0

    In 1968 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Pickering v. Board of Education that public school teachers do not forfeit their First Amendment rights to engage in speech that their employer, the school district, might find disagreeable.1 The following year, in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, the High Court wrote that students

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  • Schools Are Special0

    In the case of Newdow v. U.S. Congress the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Congress violated the First Amendment to the Constitution when it added "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954. The Newdow ruling was as controversial as the Supreme Court's ruling in Roe v. Wade in 1973, when the

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