HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Students in private and public schools
would be required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance or sing the national
anthem each morning under a bill unanimously passed this week by the state
Senate.
Republican Rep. Allan Egolf said he introduced the measure, which also
would mandate the display of the American flag in all classrooms, after
finding that some schools did not ask students to recite the pledge.
"It's getting away from teaching about what our country stands for, what
our founders did, and why we have the country we have," Egolf said.
The measure would allow students to decline reciting the pledge and
saluting the flag on the basis of religious conviction or personal belief,
but school officials would have to notify their parents.
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. Government Confirms that it maintains anti-activist no-fly list
posted by Reverend Chuck0 on Friday November 15 2002
Nov. 15, 2002 | Barbara Olshansky was in Newark International Airport at
the JetBlue departure gate last March when an airline agent at the counter
checking her boarding pass called airport security. Olshansky was subjected
to a close search and then, though she was in view of other travelers, was
ordered to pull her pants down. The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks may have
created a new era in airport security, but even so, she was embarrassed and
annoyed. Another sign that the U.S. has turned into the former Soviet
Union. [...]
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