The Court's calendar being as crowded as it is, we shouldn't be surprised that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals got around to playing its April Fool's joke in June. In ruling that the words "under God" violated the First Amendment's clause prohibiting the establishment of religion, the learned black-robed ones were pulling our legs. How else could their decision be interpreted? Did they actually think that the recitation of the pledge, including the words "under God," by thousands of schoolchildren each day would somehow lead to the establishment of a state, i.e., federal, religion? (Several states had official religions … Continue reading One Nation, Under Government