In an interview with Harry Smith on CBS’ “Early Show” Friday morning, President Obama called out Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh as purveyors of “vitriol” – creating a climate in which he’s called a “socialist” and even a “Nazi.”
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I have to seriously ask… Are they kidding? The Texas State Board of Education wants to remove mention of Thomas Jefferson, architect of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence from Texas Social Studies textbooks and replace this important figure in American History with French Theologian John Calvin 16th century founder of a Christian Theology known as Calvinism. But wait, it gets better, Jefferson Davis is required reading and Abraham Lincoln is reduced to no more than a side discussion.
During the era of McCarthyism, Red-baiters fed upon the image of “godless” Communists infiltrating our educational system in order to brainwash the youth of America. As it turned out, that image was largely imaginary. Ironically, though, we now really do have a coterie of Christian evangelicals who are attempting to infiltrate our educational system in order to brainwash the youth of America. They are in Texas.
Before you say, “Oh GOD NOT ANOTHER POLITICAL BLOG”, you need to take a moment to read on. What I am going to relate may be old news for some but will be a real eye opener for others.
As most of you know I ran for the Kansas House of Representatives in 2006 and I [...]
The United States Senate is on the verge of passing historic health reform legislation. Taken together, the provisions of this bill represent the most significant health reform since the creation of Medicare.
I do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war. What I do know is that meeting these challenges will require the same vision, hard work, and persistence of those men and women who acted so boldly decades ago. And it will require us to think in new ways about the notions of just war and the imperatives of a just peace.
Vote Them Out!
Dec 4
The entire Congress of the United States is corrupt. And we mean both Houses and we mean both major parties.