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Recent Blogs
The Religious Right’s Secret Candidate ‘Forum’
If anyone needs more evidence that the religious right’s ringleaders see voters as sheep, we present a new exhibit: Rev. Rick Scarborough’s secret candidate-screening in East Texas. Scarborough, head of the Lufkin (Texas)-based group Vision America, orbits the fringes of the far right. For example, he’s a “birther” who doubts President Obama was truly born […]
Standing Tall for Science in Texas
The National Center for Science Education has named three distinguished university scholars in Texas as the recipients of the organization’s 2010 Friend of Darwin award for their efforts last year to promote sound science education in public schools. Prof. Gerald Skoog of Texas Tech, Prof. David Hillis of the University of Texas at Austin and Prof. […]
Talking Points
From today’s TFN News Clips: “A movement seeking limited government will never succeed if it continually limits the importance of self-government and moral values.” — Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, joining a chorus of complaints from the religious right that the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has become too “libertarian” and not sufficiently focused on […]
Talking Points
From today’s TFN News Clips: “The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children. In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to […]
