The party primary elections of May 29 decided most things, but not everything. Starting today, if you live in certain Texas State Board of Education districts, you get a second shot at making an impact on the board and on public education in Texas. Early voting begins today, and runs through Friday, for the July […]
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Texas State Board of Education Creationists Reject Expertise (Again)
The commitment to mediocrity continues to thrive at the Texas State Board of Education. Last week the board’s creationist bloc once again stopped board reformers — both Republicans and Democrats — from changing the outrageously politicized process for revising curriculum standards for Texas public schools. Observers who watched the state board revise curriculum standards for […]
Louie Gohmert Links Colorado Shootings to ‘Ongoing Attacks on Judeo-Christian Beliefs’
Wow. East Texas Congressman Louis Gohmert is on a roll. Just a day after his outrageous rant against Muslims at a congressional hearing, today he linked the horrific shootings at a movie theater in Colorado to “ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs”: “You know what really gets me, as a Christian, is to see the ongoing […]
Joseph McCarthy Would Be Proud of Louie Gohmert
The late Joseph McCarthy’s soul surely was dancing over the shocking behavior of East Texas Congressman Louie “Terror Babies” Gohmert at a congressional hearing on Thursday. It gets especially outrageous at the 3:00 mark. Words fail. […]
Predictable
The bodies of the innocent victims of the Colorado shooting early this morning haven’t even been removed from the theater and Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, which sponsored Gov. Rick Perry’s prayer rally last year and has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is already out with his […]
