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Stewart and Colbert on the debt ceiling “compromise”

By Mark | August 2, 2011

Here, for those of you without basic cable, is what Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert had to say about the so-called compromise. The Daily Show – Dealageddon! – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering CompromiseGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political […]

Posted in Economics, Media, Politics | Also tagged charity, Christianity, Daily Show, debt ceiling, give to the poor, Jesus, Jon Stewart, national debt, Stephen Colbert, what would Jesus think | 8 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 a wall of separation between Church & State, Alamo, asshole Republicans of Texas, asshole Republicans of Texas who are rewriting American history books, Bruce Maiman, 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 […]