Controversial Texas State Board of Education candidate Mary Lou Bruner is upset at the media. But not just any media. While it’s not unusual for politicians and activists to blame the so-called “left-wing liberal media” for just about everything, Bruner is, surprisingly, upset at the uber-conservative news website Breitbart. The tiff between Bruner and Breitbart […]
Textbook Censorship
The SBOE Is Taking Up Science Again This Year
Buckle up, science-lovers and other rational Texans. Science is coming back to the Texas State Board of Education this year. The SBOE has announced plans to “streamline” the state’s controversial science standards. And that means evolution will be back in the crosshairs. We’ll have much more information about this process soon, but for now, two […]
Yes, We Have More of Mary Lou Bruner’s Facebook Posts
After we first published Mary Lou Bruner’s social media posts, the Republican Texas State Board of Education candidate out of District 9 defended her comments in a couple of ways. She began by saying, on Facebook, that she was taken out of context. What possible context there could be for insisting that the president of […]
Mary Lou ‘Obama Was a Gay Prostitute’ Bruner — One Step Closer to a Seat on the Texas State Board of Education
Mary Lou Bruner thinks President Obama was a gay prostitute, climate change is a Marxist hoax and evolution is propaganda for atheism. And now Bruner is one step closer to sitting on the board that decides what more than 5 million kids learn in Texas public schools (and strongly influences what textbooks are used in […]
Texas Ed Board Candidate: My Claim That President Obama Was a Gay Prostitute Is ‘Accurate’
Mary Lou Bruner, a Republican candidate running for the Texas State Board of Education seat in East Texas, is standing by her claims that President Obama is a drug addict who funded his habit by being a gay prostitute. From an article today on the far-right blog Breitbart: […]
