From today’s TFN News Clips: “It has always been a puzzling thing to me. The Bible even speaks of it, that, you know, you speak the name, ‘Jesus Christ,’ and I don’t – and I don’t mean to make a pun here, but all hell breaks loose. And – and it has always been thus. It […]
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Dodging a Bullet
Remember Allen Quist? He’s the fringe-right Minnesota politician who State Board of Education member Don McLeroy wanted to appoint to a panel of so-called “experts” helping revise social studies curriculum standards for Texas public schools. Like other absurdly unqualified ideologues who succeeded in getting appointments to the “expert” panel, Quist didn’t just lack academic credentials […]
Talking Points
From today’s TFN News Clips: “Evolution is hooey.” — Texas State Board of Education member Don McLeroy, R-Bryan, eloquent as ever Stay informed with TFN News Clips, a daily digest of news about politics and the religious right. Subscribe here. […]
David Barton Plays ‘Expert’ Again
David Barton clearly has no shame. Once again he’s letting the far-right Web site OneNewsNow — “a Christian news service . . . that exists to present the day’s stories from a biblical perspective” — promote him as an authority on the Constitution. Last summer OneNewsNow quoted the head of the far-right organization WallBuilders as […]
Talking Points
From today’s TFN News Clips: “The extent to which he can recover seems to me depends on his faith. He is said to be a Buddhist. I don’t think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. So my message to Tiger would be, ‘Tiger, turn to the […]