Merry Christmas from WashingtonWatch.com
Posted by Jim Harper
And happy holidays too—whatever you celebrate and however you celebrate it. If you don’t celebrate anything that’s fine too. Congress doesn’t have a lot to say about Christmas or other religious holidays. The good ol’ First Amendment requires the government to resist endorsing or suppressing religion—just leaving those things for us to decide for ourselves. [...]
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Happy Native American Heritage Day!
Posted by Jim Harper
. . . or so some would have it. S. 1852 is entitled the Native American Heritage Day Act of 2007. It would designate the Friday after Thanksgiving of each year as “Native American Heritage Day” in honor of the achievements and contributions of Native Americans to the United States. Were it to pass, Native [...]
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