While we are one step closer to the Texas Ten Commandment Law entering the Supreme Court, we are there, we're knocking on the door while this is happening because of a decision by the Court of Appeals the other day while this is happening.

May 1st is just around the corner and hundreds of schools actually with hundreds of students are planning to walk out.

They're planning protests, which is a, we've got two opposing educational points of

view here, and they are unfolding before our very eyes. We're going to get into the

dissection today, but before we do, before we dive into the federal Court of Appeals ruling

in favor of the Ten Commandments versus what's happening here on May 1st and the juxtaposition between these two opposing views

of education. We've got a history class today. That's right. It's one of our favorite days of

the week is history class day. I mean, it's mine. It's probably yours, too. I don't know that

you'd be listening. If you would continue listening, if maybe history class wasn't one of your

favorite things. Today, 1758, James Monroe is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Of course, James Monroe is indeed the

fifth president. He is the last, the last president of the founding generation, James Monroe,

president number five. We've got the bookends of Washington and Monroe, the presidents of the founding

generation, the bookends, and that famous painting of Washington crossing the Delaware,

painted by Emmanuel Lutz. It's sitting behind me right now on the wall. Of course,

Monroe was born in the same county as Washington, and he's tall.

He's tall like Washington. He's tall and he's dignified. Matter of fact, many people said that because of his dignity and because of his height, they reminded, he was,

Monroe reminded them of Washington. Thomas Jefferson reportedly declared about Monroe that he

was so honest. If you turned his soul inside out, there would not be a spot on it. I mean, that's honesty right there.

Monroe is the son of a planner. He attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg.

But Monroe abandoned his studies to fight in the Revolutionary War. And he was with Washington's

Army on Christmas night, 1776, when they crossed the Delaware

to attack the German troops at Trenton, the Hesians, as it were, Trenton, New Jersey. It was Monroe who led the charge,

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