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Moses' Top Ten
The Ten Commandments have a shot at being named Time magazine's man of the year. This week, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll showed that 63 percent of the respondents want President Bush to appoint a Supreme Court nominee who supports ''allowing displays of the Ten Commandments on government property.'' The Conservative Caucus is even petitioning the president to appoint the former, as in fired, Alabama chief justice, Roy Moore, the legal whiz who defied a federal court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the lobby of Montgomery's state judicial building. The Supreme Court's ruling last month upholding the right of the Texas State Capitol to keep a Ten Commandments sculpture -- sponsored by that great theologian Cecil B. DeMille to promote his Charlton Heston epic -- on its grounds as an historical artifact is arguable from a legal perspective. But to the amateur historian and professional ironist, it's a delight. Because I've been to the Texas State Capitol, and that granite Moses movie ad is one of the least offensive things there.
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Moses' Top Ten
The Ten Commandments have a shot at being named Time magazine's man of the year. This week, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll showed that 63 percent of the respondents want President Bush to appoint a Supreme Court nominee who supports ''allowing displays of the Ten Commandments on government property.'' The Conservative Caucus is even petitioning the president to appoint the former, as in fired, Alabama chief justice, Roy Moore, the legal whiz who defied a federal court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the lobby of Montgomery's state judicial building. The Supreme Court's ruling last month upholding the right of the Texas State Capitol to keep a Ten Commandments sculpture -- sponsored by that great theologian Cecil B. DeMille to promote his Charlton Heston epic -- on its grounds as an historical artifact is arguable from a legal perspective. But to the amateur historian and professional ironist, it's a delight. Because I've been to the Texas State Capitol, and that granite Moses movie ad is one of the least offensive things there.