There’s also this story from the WaPo about the VA chief taking a business/tourist trip to Europe with his wife on our nickel.

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On another note, I swear, I should probably memorize this because I’ve had to repeat it so many times over the last week to idiots. It’s Justice Jackson from West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 642 (1943), which struck down rules requiring students to participate in patriotic activities.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.

I hope the kids in Bossier Parish kneel during the anthem tonight.