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Grapevine: Jane Fonda to portray Nancy Reagan

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    Casting choice sparks critics on the right

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Fresh pickings from the political great sign.

-- city's public schools are dating dozens of words and topics deemed too sensitive for school tests because they could -- unpleasant emotions in students.

-- words include dinosaur birthday and Halloween.

Dancing and junk food words that -- just wealth are excluded too along with poverty divorce and disease.

Officials say the topics may be finding other contexts that they don't belong in city it was statewide assessments.

When education -- -- the irony is by eliminating some of those topics schools cut -- subjects many kids know a lot of mountains.

And national atheist group is suing Pennsylvania lawmakers for passing a resolution earlier this year declaring Tony twelve.

The year of the Bible.

The lawsuit by the freedom from religion foundation says the declaration is unconstitutional.

Because it's tantamount to the state endorsing religion.

The group takes issue with biblical context it dean's quote violent sexist and racist models of behavior that FF RF numbers find personally repugnant.

The resolution's sponsor says it's only meant to recognize the impact the -- -- -- on the country in the state and does not stop anyone from believing or not believing in any faith.

Tech testing it is not -- in an upcoming film called the Butler actress an outspoken political activist Jane Fonda is reportedly going to play former Republican First Lady Nancy Reagan.

The casting choices already getting criticized by many on the right since Fonda is best known for her opposition to the Vietnam War entertaining.

Liberal causes.