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January 03, 2007
I'll bet Tom's smiling about this
From the Washington Post's Reliable Source column:
Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, found himself under attack last month when he announced he'd take his oath of office on the Koran -- especially from Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode, who called it a threat to American values.Yet the holy book at tomorrow's ceremony has an unassailably all-American provenance. We've learned that the new congressman -- in a savvy bit of political symbolism -- will hold the personal copy once owned by Thomas Jefferson.
As Ronald Bailey points out at Reason's Hit & Run: "Jefferson's home Monticello is in Goode's district."
Posted by joke du jour at January 3, 2007 07:01 PM
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