As mentioned here, there was a petition to investigate Chris Dodd for bribery. Well, the White House has spoken: Thank you for signing this petition. We appreciate your participation in the We the People platform on Whitehouse.gov. However, consistent with the We the People Terms of Participation and our responses to similar petitions in the past, the White House declines to comment on this petition because it requests a specific law enforcement action. Or to put in another way, you can only petition the government if you've agreed to the Terms of Participation and don't violate them - and requesting that the ...
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012Ceremonial Deism
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009"In God We Trust" did not appear on any coin until 1864. It wasn't used on all coins until Roosevelt's presidency, it wasn't mandated by legislation on all coins until 1955, nor made the official motto of the United States until 1956. Likewise, the Pledge of Allegiance wasn't even written until 1892, and the words "Under God" weren't added until 1954. So enough of this nonsensical revisionism that the Founding Fathers were all devoted Christians and founded this country as a Christian nation - those who utter such nonsense are bearing false witness. Even were that not the case, the ...