From today’s TFN News Clips: “Well, you know I’m an evangelical Christian. I believe that God created everything and that he is who he says he was. The Bible says that he created man and woman; it doesn’t say that he created an amoeba and then they evolved into man and woman.” — Minnesota Gov. Tim […]
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The Year in Quotes: Just Plain Kooky
Today we continue our review of the nonsense we heard from the far right in 2009. Some quotes defy attempts to categorize. So let’s just say these are, well, just plain kooky. (Click here to see crazy quotes from the right about science and science education this year.) “Rather than everyone here having to learn […]
A Reminder: TFN’s Matching Gift Challenge
We told you earlier this month that a few generous donors have established a $50,000 Matching Gift Challenge for the Texas Freedom Network. Click here to read more about it. Then please consider joining our ongoing efforts to support sound science, strong public schools, religious freedom and individual liberties. Click here to make your 2009 […]
Talking Points
From today’s TFN News Clips: “[Texas students] are going to know a great deal about their own state and it is a fine state, but they are going to know very little about the world and they are going to leave high school with a very myopic view of the history of humankind.” — Gary Nash, […]
Rick Scarborough: Birther Extremist
Maybe Rick Scarborough should run for chair of the Texas Republican Party of Texas. After all, we’re beginning to think the head of the far-right group Vision America (based in Lufkin) could be even more extreme than the Texas GOP’s current chair, Cathie Adams. (See here and here for examples of Adams’ extremism.) In a […]