The town says the high court already has upheld prayers at the start of legislative meetings and that private citizens offered invocations of their own choosing.
Neither the legal details of the sequester nor the practical work of reforming government are as interesting to the media as Mr. Obama's invocations of plagues and pestilence.
Her invocations of Sinatra and Lolita are entirely appropriate to the sumptuous backing tracks, but, when it comes to lyrics, she and her collaborators get lost in a tangle of keywords.
Because in order to describe how a Republican House Speaker and a Democratic President are polar opposites we need to resort to invocations of murderous dictators and prime ministers of countries populated by the self-same people said murderous dictators were trying exterminate.
Witness the coexistence of rough planes that incorporate sand and suavely brushed passages, or of raucous invocations of leaves and fruit, and illusionistic wood grain and marble (an echo of his early training as a master decorator, as well as of Cubist collage).
In 1915, at the 250th anniversary celebration of the founding of Newark, he had sat at the side of Mayor Raymond and delivered the invocation just as he delivered invocations annually at the parades for Memorial Day and the Fourth of July: rabbi exalts declaration of independence was a headline that appeared annually in the Star-Ledger every July fifth.