Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond. […]
Recent Blogs
The Marriage of Ted Cruz and David Barton
It’s a political marriage, at any rate. David Barton, the religious right’s favorite phony historian and political propagandist, is taking over leadership of the super-PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate and Texas senator Ted Cruz. According to the Bloomberg news service, Keep the Promise PAC is the umbrella organization for a group of related pro-Cruz political committees that raised $38 million […]
Houston Chronicle Slams ‘Bathroom’ Nonsense from Pro-Discrimination Extremists
Even before the Houston City Council passed the Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) in May of last year, opponents claimed — without a shred of evidence — that the anti-discrimination measure would allow sexual predators into public restrooms to assault women and children. That cynical and deeply disingenuous claim is the central argument HERO opponents are making in their campaign to repeal the […]
Even Fox News Gets It
When it comes to Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk now in jail for refusing to federal obey a court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, even some of the folks at Fox News are getting it right. Here is commentator Gregg Jarrett speaking in a Fox News panel discussion he hosted on Monday: “When […]
The Week in Quotes (Aug. 30 – Sept. 5)
Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond. […]
