Tag Archives: a wall of separation between Church & State

Glenn Beck announces his intention to build a Libertarian utopia, promising to bring the terrifyingly beautiful vision of Ayn Rand to life

By Mark | January 15, 2013

After teasing his audience for days with cryptic Disney Land imagery and the promise of incredible news, Glenn Beck, the vile charlatan who’s made a career of fleecing America’s most fearful and ignorant, announced that he intends to build a $2 billion Libertarian utopia in rural Texas loosely modeled on

Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Agenda 21, American Dream Labs, apprenticeship, Atlas Shrugged, Ave Maria, Ayn Rand, big government, child labor, David Barton, Disney Land, Galt's Gulch, Glenn Beck, hate, Independence Park, intentional community, John Galt, Jonestown, Libertarianism, Mark's big ideas, reality television, separation of church and state, Texas, The Jefferson Lies, Thomas Jefferson, Tom Monaghan, utopias, WallBuilders, Walt Disney | 31 Comments

Delaware candidate for the House attributes separation of church and state to Hitler

By Mark | September 19, 2010

Not only did the criminally misinformed voters of Delaware choose the non-masturbating former witch, Christine O’Donnell, to be their Republican candidate for Senate, but they selected her fellow tea bagger, Glen Urquhart, as their candidate to fill the seat of U.S. Representative Mike Castle, who had announced his intention to leave the House in order [...]

Posted in Church and State, Politics | Also tagged a wall of separation, Christine O'Donnell, Danbury Baptists, Delaware, Glen Urquhart, Hitler, Mike Castle, separation of church and state, tea party, Thomas Jefferson, witches | 18 Comments

Tennessee Mosque Attack

By Mark | August 29, 2010

I dont think there’s any way you can argue that there’s not a heightened anti-muslim sentiment in this country in the wake of the manufactured controversy over the so-called 911 mosque. Since the big protest in New York last week, I know of at least two violent attacks. First, there was the stabbing of New [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Observations, Politics | Also tagged Ahmed Sharif, Andy Anderson, anti-Muslim violence, arson, ATF, Ben Goodwin, domestic terrorism, Evy Summers, fear mongering, freedom of religion, Islam, Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Murfreesboro, Nashville, Sharia law, stabbing, tea party, Tennessee, terrorism, xenophobia | 35 Comments

Rewriting history in Texas

By Mark | March 14, 2010

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, [...]

Posted in Church and State, Education, History, Politics | Also tagged Alamo, asshole Republicans of Texas, asshole Republicans of Texas who are rewriting American history books, Bruce Maiman, Christian nation, founding fathers, Jefferson Davis, Joe McCarthy, John Calvin, Mary Helen Berlanga, Orwellian, removal of the word democratic, rewriting history, social studies, St. Thomas Aquinas, Tejanos, Texas, Texas Education Board, Texas Freedom Network, textbooks, Thomas Jefferson | 13 Comments

How Christian were our Founding Fathers?

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 [...]