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  • Bad Argument Bad History0

    By Winston E. Greeley Illustration By Peter Bennett Many people would agree, on First Amendment principles, that the funneling of tax money, either directly or indirectly, to religious education is a bad idea. Now, it's one thing when people use a good argument to defend a bad idea. Or even when people use a bad

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  • Under God Freedom0

    Illustration By Don Stewart The timing was at the very least a guaranteed attention-getter: one week before this year's Fourth of July celebrations, the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals ruled that recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America in public school classrooms constitutes an unacceptable state

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  • Drama Queen0

    Illustration By Will Terry If a student swears in acting class, does God hear? * Apparently not, according to University of Utah acting professors. Or, if He does, it doesn't count because, hey, it is acting, after all. It's not like she means it. Right? Well . . . * Christina Axson-Flynn, a member of

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  • The Great Pledge Debate0

    The 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week cable channels treated it like the death of a celebrity, a major natural disaster, or the verdict in the O. J. Simpson case. Even though it was only a 2-1 decision by a federal appeals court holding that a 1954 act of Congress that added the words "under God" to the Pledge

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  • A Separationist Silver Lining0

    Illustration By Ralph Butler A week before the Supreme Court's ruling in the Cleveland voucher case, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002), I was coleading a seminar on religious liberty. My friend and fellow instructor told the group that if the Court upheld tuition vouchers for private religious schools, the establishment clause of the First Amendment would

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  • Northern Slight AndThe Panic of 9/110

    Former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau once likened living next door to the United States to sleeping with an elephant—no matter how friendly the elephant is, you can't help feeling its every twitch and grunt. Canadians are familiar with this "sleeping with the elephant" syndrome—everything that happens in the U.S. inevitably impacts Canada. On September

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