THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IS BANNED IN A CALIFORNIA SCHOOL

Did you notice that Lincoln's Thanksgiving Day Proclamation which I posted in the Nuze yesterday contained several references to God?  That would mean that it could not be read to students at the Stevens Creek Elementary School in California.

Steven Williams is a fifth grade teacher at Stevens Creek.  Her has filed a lawsuit against Stevens Creek principal Patricia Vidmar and other school officials claiming discrimination.  Williams claims that he has been forbidden to use the Declaration of Independence in his classroom instruction.  And why?  Because it contains references to God and to Christianity, that's why.

This is enough to actually make a tough bar-fight kind of dude such as myself sit down and just cry.  Is this where we've come to in this country?  Those men who signed The Declaration of Independence put their lives and their fortunes on the line.  Some were killed for their treachery.  Others lost their families.  Many lost all that they owned.  We celebrate the signing of this document every year in one of our nation's most revered holidays, and now we have some school principal out there in Pelosi-land telling a teacher he can't use the Declaration in class because it mentions God?

By the time I hit the airwaves on Monday there's sure to be more news about this.  For now you can read Steven William's lawsuit right here at the Smoking Gun website.   There is also coverage of this story from Reuters, from The San Mateo County Times and from World Net Daily. 

Need I say that this is a government school we're dealing with here?  Is this story going to be enough to convince some of you out there to at least give some thought to sending your child somewhere other than to the government for an education?  You know in your hearts that government doesn't do anything real well, few things well and most things horribly.  Why, then, do you continue to entrust the most precious things in your life to government?  Maybe I just heard a few heads being pulled out of the sand.

Do you want details about this school?  How about the address and some phone numbers?   Here you go.  Do with them what you will.

ATLANTA AIRPORT OUTRAGE!

For several days I've been telling you about out-of-control police officers at Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport.  Diana Dietrich-Barnes went to Hartsfield to pick up her mother.  She was parked at the curb for about one minute when a police officer, Terrance Alexander, ordered her to move.  As she backed up Alexander says that she bumped him with her side view mirror.  At that point her yanked her from the car and arrested her.  You can  click here to read the story about the arrest of Diana Dietrich-Barnes at Hartsfield.  Then Click here to see the video.  Just click on the link marked "Video Details Controversial Arrest." You will see Officer Terrance Alexander actually pick up this woman and literally slam her to the ground.

I've been in Atlanta for 37 years.  For 35 of those years I've been doing a talk radio show.  During that time I've met and come to know hundreds of Atlanta police officers.  With only one or two exceptions they've been just wonderful.  You are going to find those one or two exceptions in every line of work.  I can tell you though that ever since I came to Atlanta the scuttlebutt has been that Atlanta police officers who are out of favor with the city's political leadership or police officials have been assigned to the airport.  Whether you have trouble dealing with your superiors or with the public, it's off to the airport with you.  Terrance Alexander would seem to support this theory.  He has a long history of disciplinary problems with more than 11 reprimands and suspensions in the past four years.  Odd, isn't it, that this thug in blue would end up at the airport! 

When Alexander's superiors refused to charge Dietrich--Barnes with a crime, he decided that he would swear out his own criminal warrant for her arrest ... on a felony charge no less.  Earlier this week the judge threw out Alexander's charges.  The next step here is for Diana Dietrich-Barnes to sue the absolute mess out of Alexander and the City of Atlanta.  Hopefully she will, and hopefully this menace with a badge will soon be looking for another line of work. 

OK ... MAYBE JUST A FEW READING ASSIGNMENTS.

The chronicle of the circumstances of the year 1620.  Nathaniel Morton describes what he and other Pilgrims were going through.  And you think we have it tough?

Let's give thanks for America.  A Wall Street Journal editorial.

Things aren't going well in the Ukraine .. but John Kerry sure does admire the way Putin is trying to install his chosen candidate over the will of the people. 

Congress' Overstuffed Turkey.  A look at the latest spending bill passed by our "representatives" in Washington.

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