Mormonism, or the attacks on it, is in the news again this morning following a story in The Daily Beast that cites emails between a Christian radio executive and well-known religious-right activist David Lane. The emails between Lane and Dick Bott of the Bott Radio Network seem to indicate the two were in cahoots to […]
Recent Blogs
The Week in Quotes (Oct. 9 – 15)
Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond. […]
BREAKING: World Ends Oct. 21
In breaking news out of California, radio evangelist Harold Camping predicts the world will end on May 21, 1988 September 6, 1994 May 21, 2011 October 21, 2011. You know what they say? The fourth time is the charm. So there you go, you have until next Friday to get your affairs in order. If […]
TFN voted “Best of Austin”!
Thanks to you, the Texas Freedom Network this week was once again named the best activist organization in the Austin Chronicle‘s “Best of Austin” readers poll! This was our ninth “Best of” award. We’d like to think that even the far right secretly votes for us. Here’s some of what the Chronicle had to say […]
Exposing David Barton’s Bad History
David Barton might be a popular speaker in conservative circles and considered a “historian” and “constitutional expert” by politico-entertainers like Glenn Beck and politicians like Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich. But a scholar’s new review of Barton’s American history textbook (yes, he has one) exposes the Texan’s simplistic, selective […]
