Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert apparently thinks the way to cut the federal deficit is by attacking the poorest and neediest Americans. And he’s willing to trot out the old tried-and-true smears that right-wingers have used for decades. On Thursday, Gohmert offered his justification for cutting billions in assistance to low-income Americans who get support from […]
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Bill Nye for Texas State Board of Education. Please?
You should really spend a few minutes today reading this New York Times profile of Bill Nye the Science Guy published this week. The quotable, pro-science stuff in the NYT piece and in the accompanying video below got us thinking that Bill would make an excellent Texas State Board of Education member. OK, maybe a […]
Cue the Outrage from the Religious Right: Major 'Ex-Gay' Group Shuts Down, Leader Apologizes
Pretty stunning news: A Christian ministry that led the so-called ex-gay movement, which professes to rid people of their homosexuality, has announced that it will shut down, and its leader apologized extensively to gays for causing “pain and hurt.” The ministry, Exodus International, was founded in 1976 and claims more than 200 branches, churches and […]
Louie ‘Terror Babies’ Gohmert: Nukes as Border Control?
East Texas Congressman Louie “Terror Babies” Gohmert doesn’t like President Obama’s pledge to scale back the U.S. nuclear arsenal (along with the the arsenals of other nuclear powers). He tweets: Is now really the time to reduce America’s nuclear strength, when we can’t even secure our borders? http://fxn.ws/145pFHz What is he suggesting? That we nuke […]
Is 'Historian' David Barton Trying to Cover Up His Historical Errors?
Blogger and psychology professor Warren Throckmorton has a new piece up exposing how David Barton, the pseudo-historian who founded the religious-right organization WallBuilders in Texas, is trying to cover up errors in his historical work. Barton’s apparent strategy: revise his claims but don’t tell anyone about those corrections. Throckmorton points out how a Barton tour […]
