Remember how I told you that Republicans in Texas were attempting to make a few “minor” changes to their state’s K-12 history textbooks, like removing any mention of that little “separation of church and state” thing? Well, it looks like they’ve made some tremendous headway in the last few days. Since we last discussed it, […]
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I wasn’t a huge Corey Haim fan, but I feel as though it’s worth remembering, on this, the day that he was found dead of an apparent overdose in Los Angeles, that there was a time before he was a two-dimensional, drug addicted d-list celebrity preyed upon by the bottom feeders of the entertainment industry. […]
By Mark | February 11, 2010
It’s a question that we’ve discussed here many times over the past half-dozen years – how Christian were the founding fathers? And this weekend’s New York Times magazine goes into a great deal of depth on the subject, while exploring the current battle being waged within the Texas School Board on the rewriting of American […]
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By Mark | September 17, 2009
I’ve said it before, but, by the time this runs it course, I predict we’ll see the right burning witches in this country… Just wait and see.
Also posted in Religious Extremism | Tagged anti-intellectualism, birther, Frank Schaeffer, fundamentalist religion, insanity on the right, New Jersey, Obama as the Antichrist, Rachel Maddow, the distrust of facts, village idiots, witches |
On Sunday, when it became known that Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller had been murdered, I suggested that some of the blame might belong at the feet of FOX News host Bill O’Reilly, who had demonized Tiller for several years, likening him to a Nazi and suggesting that those who stood by and did nothing […]
