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, […]
Recent Blogs
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 […]
More about the ‘War on Christmas’ Lie
Texas, of course, isn’t the only place where the religious right is promoting the lie that Christmas is under attack by alleged Christian haters and secularists. Americans United for Separation of Church and State takes a look at how the religious right has distorted — or just plain made up — stories supposedly showing Christmas […]
Talking Points
From today’s TFN News Clips: “What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can’t make the vote tonight. That’s what they ought to pray.” — U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., proposing from the Senate floor yesterday a prayer before an important vote on health care legislation. Observers took offense at the possibility that Sen. […]
The Year in Quotes: Science
With the new year approaching, it’s worthwhile to remember what we’ve heard from the religious right in 2009. We will start today where we began the year: with the religious right’s efforts to undermine science education by watering down instruction on evolution in public school science classrooms. “Jeffrey Dahmer Believed in Evolution.’” — The subject […]
