BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

When official Washington wasn’t trying to figure out who said what to whom about what Herman Cain might or might not have said or done while he was running the National Restaurant Association…

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In addition to its other problems, the National Restaurant Association’s acronym is “NRA.” You may remember there is another organization which has those same initials: The National Rifle Association. All week people here have been talking about the NRA and having to add “That’s the Restaurant people, not the Gun folks.”
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… there was a minor issue over the House voting to re-affirm the national motto as “In God We Trust” not, as President Obama thought E pluribus unum “Out of Many, One.” The House vote was, according to the aptly named Christian Science Monitor “396-9, with 2 abstentions.”

The phrase “In God We Trust” first appeared on U.S. currency on the two-cent coin in 1864 after the Congress passed legislation allowing in in April of that year. Since 1938 “In God We Trust” has appeared on the obverse (the tails side) of every American coin. Continue reading →