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Irked viewers aren’t buying NBC’s apology for censoring “under God”
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NBC’s decision to edit the word “God” from the Pledge of Allegiance during last weekend’s coverage of the U.S. Open golf tournament has teed off thousands, including an Ohio congressman, who wants the U.S. Golf Association to reconsider its relationship with the television network. Here’s NBC’s politically correct version of the pledge, which happened twice:…
Why didn’t Charlie Chaplin’s stirring speech become an icon of freedom?
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Back in the darkest days of World War II, when the Nazis were blitzkreiging unstoppably across Europe’s democracies, as millions of Jews, gypsies and uncooperative Christians were gassed at concentration camps, as America was gripped in fear that California and Oregon were next after Pearl Harbor, an eccentric movie was released. In it the famed…
Pakistan Supreme Court asked to ban Bible as “blasphemous”
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The head of a major Pakistani political party is calling on the nation’s Supreme Court to ban the Bible because it blasphemes Islam. On May 30. Maulana Abdul Rauf Farooqi, leader of the large Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party, claimed that the Bible contains passages that are extremely insulting to Islam’s prophets. He specifically cited the story of…
Baseball player under attack for saying college shouldn’t have banned Star-Spangled Banner
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Student baseball player Mike Milligan is embarrassed that Goshen College where he is pursuing a degree has banned playing the “Star-Spangled Banner” at athletic events. Why? Because the song is violent. Francis Scott Key was sitting in a British prison ship, worried that America might not survive the War of 1812. The White House had been torched…
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