Bikers Escort Cody Alicea To School

Its nice to know that there are still some Americans that aren't afraid to show their patriotism.

Student told to take U.S. flag off bike

DENAIR, Calif., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Officials in a California school district said a middle school student was told to take a U.S. flag off his bike to avoid "racial tension."

Denair Unified School District Superintendent Edward Parraz said Cody Alicea, 13, was told not to fly the U.S. flag from his bike while at Denair Middle School after complaints from other students, KCRA-TV, Sacramento, Calif., reported.

"(The) First Amendment is important," Parraz said. "We want the kids to respect it, understand it, and with that comes a responsibility."

Parraz said racial tensions boiled over at the school this year around the Cinco de Mayo holiday.

"Our Hispanic, you know, kids will, you know, bring their Mexican flags and they'll display it, and then of course the kids would do the American flag situation, and it does cause kind of a racial tension which we don't really want," Parraz said. "We want them to appreciate the cultures."

Alicea's parents said he flies the flag from his bike as a tribute to veterans in his family.

"He's got that flag on his bike because he's proud of where he comes from," Alicea's father, Robert Kisner, said.

Alicea folds up the flag and keeps it in his backpack while attend class, the TV station said.

There is still hope for California as long as these guys live there.



In a show of solidarity 13 year old Cody Alicea was escorted to Denair Middle School by veterans and bikers, all proudly flying the American flag on their bikes.

A child should lead Arlington

From the Boston Herald

By Michael Graham
July 1, 2010

In Yiddish, Sean Harrington is a kochleffel- a pot stirrer. He’s the kid who won’t sit down and shut up.

Three years ago, Sean showed up as a freshman at Arlington High and noticed that many classrooms were missing their American flags. He also picked up on the fact that, unlike most local schools, Arlington High didn’t begin the day with the Pledge of Allegiance.

Unfortunately for Arlington officials, he had the chutzpah to do something.

He complained. He questioned school officials. When I spoke to him yesterday, he said he was particularly annoyed when committee members couldn’t tell him why the pledge had been abandoned in the first place. “It’s their job to know.”

So he started gathering signatures on a petition to bring back the pledge.

Normally, students who annoy their classmates “speaking truth to power” are admired by edu-crats. That’s because typically these students are mush-headed liberals. Petitions denouncing Israel or for lauding GLBT diversity - these Arlington’s School Committee can handle.

But a kid who gathers signatures from folks like John Kerry and Charlie Daniels to support patriotism? Sean had Arlington school officials completely flummoxed.

In the end, however, Arlington’s elected School Committee deadlocked, and his proposal to begin each day with a voluntary recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance went down. Sean may have brought in 700 signatures, but Arlington liberals just needed three votes on the committee to keep it out.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1265035&srvc=home&position=emailed

We have truly lost the war when children are prevented from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance because teachers won't participate.

The Second Revolution is on the way! by Dave Duffy Issue #123

Great editorial on the country's debt.

The Second Revolution is on the way! by Dave Duffy Issue #123

FOXNews.com - California Students Sent Home for Wearing U.S. Flags on Cinco de Mayo

FOXNews.com - California Students Sent Home for Wearing U.S. Flags on Cinco de Mayo

Contract from America

http://www.thecontract.org/
1. Protect the Constitution
2. Reject Cap & Trade
3. Demand a Balanced Budget
4. Enact Fundamental Tax Reform
5. Restore Fiscal Responsibility & Constitutionally Limited Government in Washington
6. End Runaway Government Spending
7. Defund, Repeal, & Replace Government-run Health Care
8. Pass an ‘All-of-the-Above” Energy Policy
9. Stop the Pork
10. Stop the Tax Hikes

Simple yet elegant just like our founding documents.

Marine's dad ordered to pay protesters' court fees

If you would like to help the family to cover their costs for the litigation (the attorneys for the Snyder family are doing the case pro bono) as well as recent Order by the Fourth Circuit which ordered the Snyders to pay the appeal costs of these hatemongers please go to . All donations receievd that exceed the cost of the litigation will go to benefit veterans returning from the war, in the form of a scholarship.

AP Report
The father of a Marine killed in Iraq and whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters was ordered to pay the protesters' appeal costs, his lawyers said Monday.

On Friday, Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered Snyder to pay $16,510 to Fred Phelps. Phelps is the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church, which conducted protests at Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder's funeral in 2006.

The two-page decision supplied by attorneys for Albert Snyder of York, Pa., offered no details on how the court came to its decision.

Attorneys also said Snyder is struggling to come up with fees associated with filing a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court.

The decision adds "insult to injury," said Sean Summers, one of Snyder's lawyers.

The high court agreed to consider whether the protesters' message is protected by the First Amendment or limited by the competing privacy and religious rights of the mourners.

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Nada Prouty- Is an American Hero not a Terrorist

After watching this 60 minutes interview I am thoroughly convinced that this woman was railroaded by over zealous Attorney Generals and the MSM who are looking for sensational stories rather than the truth. She admits that it was wrong for her to enter into a sham a marriage to get citizenship but she repaid her debt to our country on more than one occasion and I would be proud to have her as a citizen. Contact your Senators and lets start a campaign to get this woman back a citizenship that she earned.



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Trailblazing paratrooper broke color barrier in secret

Thank you Mr. Morris for your service to our country. While you may not have been honored then, because of racist policies your actions paved the way for so many others. We as a country are in your debt.

By Larry Shaughnessy, CNN Pentagon Producer

Washington (CNN) -- Thurgood Marshall, Hattie McDaniel, the Tuskegee Airmen and Walter Morris -- all African-Americans who made history breaking the color barrier. But while America's first black Supreme Court justice, the first African-American Oscar winner and the U.S. military's first African-American pilots are well known, you may never have heard of Walter Morris or his role in American history.

The War Department, as the Defense Department used to be called, wanted it that way. On Thursday, a ceremony at the Pentagon will undo that.

When Walter Morris first joined the Army just before World War II, he wasn't a "black" or "Negro" or "African-American" soldier -- he was "colored." And he was treated like all the other "colored" men who wanted to fight for their country.

"We were servants, we were not soldiers," Morris said. "Most of us had an inferiority complex and it was a result of what they had assigned us to do."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/25/black.paratrooper/