Killarny

On May 30, 2009, the Miss Salem pageant was held in Salem City Utah. The city of Salem sponsored the event, and the Mayor of the city, J. Lane Henderson, gave opening comments. An invocation led by Salem City Councilperson Lynn Durrant called the attending public to prayer in the name of Jesus Christ.

According to the First Amendment of the US Constitution, preference by the government of one religion over another, non-religion over religion ...

Why is it that we can't talk about nuns and priests physically and sexually abusing children without also recognizing the supposed "good" that those clergy members have done? This is exactly what Vincent Nichols, the newly installed archbishop of Westminster said during a television interview recently when confronted about the results of a commission regarding sexual abuse and terrorism perpetrated upon thousands of children by Catholic priests and nuns in the Irish Republic.

Nichols ...

I am probably safe in saying that nearly every single American reading this post will have had the Pledge of Allegiance burned into their rote memory early enough in their lives that they may not remember ever not knowing it.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands: one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.

Given the general topics ...