By Mark | September 8, 2011
If Obama really wanted people to get behind him and this new jobs initiative of his, he would have announced this evening that he was planning to top Rick Perry by taking the lives of 250 American citizens. (Just think of all the executioners and grave diggers we could put to work if he said […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged American Jobs Act, blood thirsty, Cameron Todd Willingham, death penalty, deregulation, EPA, executions, FEMA, Global Warming, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, pollution, putting innocent men to death, Rick Perry, smog, Texas justice, things to lose sleep over |
By Mark | January 24, 2011
CNN has an article today on Texas Governor Rick Perry, and how, in spite of his public condemnation of the stimulus program put forward by the Obama administration, he accepted the funds and used them to cover 97% of his state’s budget shortfall in 2010. Here’s a clip: Texas Gov. Rick Perry likes to tell […]
Posted in Observations, Other, Politics | Also tagged Ayn Rand, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Libertarianism, Medicare, National Conference of State Legislatures, Obama, Rick Perry, social security, stimulus, Texas |
By Mark | November 8, 2010
I was just reading a thread on Metafilter about how the Republicans of Texas are proposing the defunding of Medicaid. It’s an insane idea, and one that I don’t suspect will go far at present (because of the impact it would have on surrounding states), but that’s not what I want to talk about in […]
Posted in Observations, Other, Politics | Also tagged fear, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, irrational fears, Jon Stewart, Medicaid, Obamacare, Rally to Restore Sanity, reality deficient, shabster, tax, tea party, Tea Partyfication, Texas, Washington State |
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 a wall of separation between Church & State, Alamo, 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 |
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 […]
Posted in Church and State, Education, History, Religious Extremism | Also tagged a wall of separation, a wall of separation between Church & State, American Academy of Religion, American revolution, American Society of Church History, asshole Republicans of Texas who are rewriting American history books, Christian nation, Christianity, Christians under attack, Connecticut Baptists, Cynthia Dunbar, Enlightenment, European Christian tradition, First Amendment, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, George Washington, Grand Architect, Great Awakening, James Kracht, Justice Hugo Black, Martin Marty, Mayflower Compact, misunderstanding American history, Randall Balmer, rationalism, religion, Richard Brookhiser, secularism, Texas school board, the secularist agenda, Thomas Jefferson, Virginia House of Burgesses |
