Manifest Destiny: The excuse Americans invented for genocide.
The gift that keeps on giving.
I enjoyed the irony of juxtaposing the separation of church and state with the 1950s version of the Pledge of Allegiance, the one with "under God" inserted because it would make Communists' tongues turn black to say it, whose recitation is currently required of all schoolchildren unless they bring a note from their parents, and then they still have to listen to it.