Daily Commentary – Thursday, August 5th, 2010 – Oh, is This Thing On?

August 5th, 2010 Daily Commentary

* Katie Couric joins the “Oops, open mic!” club.

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Massachusetts School Kids Now “Allowed” to Say Pledge of Allegiance

This is still the United States of America, isn’t it?

As reported at Fox News, school children in the Arlington Public School district will now be“ALLOWED” to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Yes, you heard that correct … “ALLOWED”. Remember when this was common place in every classroom at the start of the school day?

“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.”

Students at Massachusetts high schools in Arlington can rejoice — they’ll be allowed to recite the Pledge of Allegiance this fall.

Nearly two months after deadlocking on a proposal by senior Sean Harrington, the Arlington Public School Committee unanimously approved a new pledge policy on Tuesday night that allows principals at each school to determine how the pledge will be recited each day.

“Yes, the policy has been changed,” Arlington High School Principal Charles Skidmore told FoxNews.com in an email. “All principals in the district must ensure that the Pledge of Allegiance is said every school day in all classrooms.”

More from the Gateway Pundit and the acts of a true patriot.

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Obama Economy: Weekly Jobless Claims Rise 19,000 to 479,000, the Highest Level Since April

More from the Obama economy and they jobless recovery from the failed $787 billion stimulus that the WH touts as a success.

First time unemployment claims benefits rose 19,000 to a seasonally adjusted 479,000 in the week ended July 31, 2010. Welcome to the Obama job recovery and the economy that is supposedly heading in the right direction according to President Barack Hussein Obama.  Any wonder why Americans are now putting the blame on Obama for the economy and shifting from GWB? It has become the Obama economy and We the People are tired of the blame game.

New claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, government data showed on Thursday, underscoring a weak labor market and the fragile economic recovery.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 19,000 to a seasonally adjusted 479,000 in the week ended July 31, the Labor Department said. That was the highest level in claims since early April.

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Baghdad Bob Gibbs Dismisses the Missouri Voters and their Resounding Rejection of Obamacare

Remember when there was a government in the United States of, by and for the People?

Not so with the Barack Hussein Obama Administration. One day after Missouri voters overwhelmingly voted down Obamacare with Proposition C and rejected that the federal government had the right to force individuals to buy insurance, Obama White House Press Secretary stated … “flatly dismissed Missouri’s vote Tuesday rejecting a key part of the healthcare law”.

“Nothing, there is nothing wrong with Obamacare”

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs flatly dismissed Missouri’s vote Tuesday rejecting a key part of the healthcare law.

Gibbs said Missouri’s vote approving a ballot initiative to exempt residents from the new law requiring individuals to buy health insurance was “of no legal significance.”

Asked what it means that voters in Missouri would vote against the federal mandate, Gibbs said: “Nothing.”

Nothing? By a 3 to 1 margin Missouri voters rejected Obamacare and White House mouth piece for Obama thinks that it means nothing. 71% of voters said in a mandate to Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the Democrats that they wanted nothing to do with the federal take over of health care. Now that is a mandate. Not only does the “Show Me” state reject Obamacare, so does America. Six in ten Americans want to repeal the law and yet the Obama Administration continues to dismiss the will of the People.

Let’s see how Democrat US Senate candidate Robin Carnahan answers the same question on the campaign trail to the voters of the “She Me” state. if she answers in the same manner … Missouri will show her the door.

Obama and his minions can dismiss the will of the people now, they will not be able to in the November 2010 midterm elections.

Daily Commentary – Wednesday, August 8th, 2010 – An Emigration Story

• Here’s something you don’t see too often: people fighting to renounce their U.S. citizenship.