December 15 is Bill of Rights day, a national holiday that was signed into law by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on that day in 1941. For those who know their history, that was just a week after the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War Two.

This is in sharp contrast to what is occurring in Congress today as the Obama administration strives to push through laws that require more than 2,000 pages to extend government control over the nation’s healthcare system or impose a high tax on the use of energy by everyone. The summer’s many town hall meetings were testimony to the fact that some 80% of America’s citizens oppose Obamacare and the tens of thousands who showed up in Washington, D.C. on September 12 should have been sufficient to kill the bill.

The Bill of Rights set forth some extraordinary and revolutionary limits on the federal government.

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A local school has a warning to students: No more ‘meep-ing.’
Any student at Danvers High School who uses the word ‘meep’ will be suspended.

“Meep,” a nonsense word, was first made popular by Beaker from The Muppet Show, and increased in popularity thanks to the Road Runner.

“You see someone in the hall and you go ‘Meep’ and they go ‘Meep’ back and nothing, it’s harmless,” Buzzi said.

Putting First Amendment concerns aside, the principal banned the word, threatening any student who uses it with suspension.

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A Florida man says he was fired from his job at The Home Depot for wearing an American flag pin that said “One nation under God, indivisible.”Trevor Keezer, 20, said he had worn the button ever since he started working at the home improvement retailer 19 months ago. He said it was his way of supporting U.S. troops, the Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.

Keezer, whose brother Army Spc. Steven Keezer Jr. is set to return to Iraq in December, said none of his supervisors had anything negative to say about the pin until last month when he began bringing his bible to work, the paper reported.”That’s when I was told it had to come off, or I would be sent home,” Keezer told WPTV last week.”So they sent me home for six straight days without pay. And then today they terminated me.”

Home Depot spokesman Craig Fishel said he could not comment specifically on Keezer’s termination but said, “The company’s dress code policy states that we do not allow non-company buttons, regardless of their message or content.”Fishel said The Home Depot has its own sanctioned patriotic pins that employees have the option to wear.

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ALBANY, Oregon – At the Oaks Apartments in Albany, the management can fly their own flag advertising one and two bedroom apartments – but residents have been told they can’t fly any flags at all.

Jim Clausen flies the American flag from the back of his motorcycle. He has a son in the military heading back to Iraq, and the flag – he said – is his way of showing support.

“This flag stands for all those people,” said Clausen, an Oaks Apartment resident. “It stands for the people that can no longer stand – who died in wars. That’s why I fly this flag.”

But to Oaks Apartment management, Clausen said, the American flag symbolizes problems.

He was told to remove the red, white and blue from both of his rides, or face eviction.

“It floored me,” he said. “I can’t believe she was saying what she was saying.”

Even long-time residents like Sharron White, who has flown a flag on her car for eight years, has been told to take it down.

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The Warriors of Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High took the field on Friday night without any Bible verses written on the cheerleaders’ banner.

Instead, the football team ran through a banner that read “This is Big Red Country” before each bent on a knee to pray on the field of Tommy Cash Stadium.
The spirited display comes after the school district banned the banners last week over concerns they were unconstitutional and could provoke a lawsuit, angering many in the deeply religious north Georgia town of Fort Oglethorpe.

The move has galvanized the community. Hundreds of people attended a rally this week supporting the signs, which included messages such as: “Commit to the Lord, whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.” Many students attended class Friday wearing shirts with Bible verses and painted their cars with messages that read: “Warriors for Christ.”

During the game, several other messages were visible in the packed stadium. Some people stood with signs that read “You Can’t Silence Us” and some young men had Bible verses painted on their chests.

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