Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:06:34 am
Yesterday in Texas, the State Board of Education, packed with Republican creationists and “social conservatives” by Governor Rick Perry, voted to take Texas schoolchildren back into the Dark Ages. Kids in Texas public schools will no longer be taught about one of the greatest political philosophers in American history, Thomas Jefferson. ...

Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:30:00 pm
Fox News is going to be heavily pimping the “founding fathers were Christian fundamentalists” canard tonight, courtesy of Michelle Malkin, James Dobson (Malkin does her interviews from Dobson’s TV studio), and Sean Hannity: michellemalkin: Will be on @hannityshow on FNC tonite 930pm Eastern to talk Texas educ stds/txtbook controversy. @seanhannity ...

Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 1:52:32 pm
Does this qualify as a mild form of child abuse: teaching children to distrust science and believe lies? I think it does. I don’t believe it’s appropriate to try to stop these parents (through legislation) from destroying their children’s ability to think critically, but it’s not hard to make a case ...

Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:50:02 pm
In the latest example in a long line of dishonest attempts to smear the science of climate change, one of the main critical witnesses in the UK Parliament’s hearings on the CRU email leaks is a shill for the oil and gas industries. And of course, he didn’t disclose this fact ...

Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:21:06 pm
I posted a link to the audio of Pentagon shooter John Patrick Bedell’s “manifesto” last night, but here’s a summary of what’s on that audio recording: Pentagon Shooter Worshipped Private Property Rights, Denounced Government ‘Schemes’ Like Public Education. The California man who opened fire last night outside the Pentagon was ...

Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:13:27 am
I’ve written several times about the striking similarity between the tactics of creationists and climate change deniers, and about the recent efforts by creationists to use the phony controversies over global warming to legitimize their silliness. So this story by Leslie Kaufman in the New York Times comes as no ...

Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:06:42 pm
Texas Governor Rick Perry may have won the Republican primary yesterday, but one of his main operatives, creationist dentist Don McLeroy, got thrown out. In the March 2, 2010, primary election, avowed young-earth creationist Don McLeroy narrowly lost his bid to be the Republican candidate for the District 9 seat ...

Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:27:36 pm
Rick Perry, who has stacked the Texas State Board of Education with anti-science religious fanatic creationists for the better part of a decade, is leading in the Texas GOP primary again. Imagine my surprise.

Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:51:26 am
For months, Hot Air listed Little Green Footballs under “Left Channels” before delinking us altogether, as a way of punishing me for leaving the right wing reservation. So imagine the sweet sweet irony as the religious right begins to reject Hot Air — because they’re not “conservative” enough: Conservatives can kiss ...

Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:06:31 pm
Yikes! According to a new poll by the Texas Tribune and the University of Texas, a disturbingly high number of Lone Star State residents think “The Flintstones” is a documentary. Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, and more than half ...

Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:44:41 am
The New York Times has a disturbing article about the far right conservatives in charge of the Texas State Board of Education, and their outrageous attempt to manipulate curriculum development and textbook production for public schools. The social conservatives appointed by Texas Governor Rick Perry (including infamous young earth creationist Don ...

Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:25:03 am
On the first night of the first National Tea Party Convention the featured speaker, Tom Tancredo, blew the racist dog whistle so loudly they heard it in Alabama. In the 1960s. The opening-night speaker at first ever National Tea Party Convention ripped into President Obama, Sen. John McCain and “the cult ...

Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:24:41 am
Imagine my surprise that linking to a piece about a disturbing Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of Republicans prompted several hyper-emotional meltdowns in our comments, and three hate mails so far today. Apart from the insult-spewers, though, many readers wanted to know exactly which questions were asked, and where the samples came ...

Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 3:08:42 pm
An interesting piece by Charles Homans at Columbia Journalism Review, asking the question: “Why don’t TV weathermen believe in climate change?” Hot Air. The disagreement, then as now, also came down to the weathercasters themselves, and what they knew—or believed they knew. Meteorology has a deceptively close relationship with climatology: ...

Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:56:17 pm
Bad news for the first National Tea Party Convention: two of its biggest names are bailing out. In another sign that controversy is taking a toll on next week’s National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn., two of its top attractions — Reps. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) ...

Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:15:41 pm
Here’s an excellent article at Washington Monthly by Mariah Blake, showing how the atavistic GOP creationist agenda has a direct and highly deleterious effect on education in the United States: Revisionaries. Don McLeroy is a balding, paunchy man with a thick broom-handle mustache who lives in a rambling two-story brick ...

Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:36:42 pm
They laid low for more than a year, waiting for attention to go elsewhere, but the Louisiana Family Forum and right wing Republican legislators are now poised to use Louisiana Governor (and part time exorcist) Bobby Jindal’s stealth creationist bill to sneak the teaching of this anti-science doctrine into public ...

Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 2:40:02 pm
Gateway Pundit (Jim Hoft) is giddy with praise for the “Bulgarian media,” because they picked up on his disgusting homophobic smears of Obama’s education minister Kevin Jennings: The State-Run Media Won’t Touch It… But Bulgarians Not Afraid to Report on Jennings Fistgate Scandal. Hoft thinks the American media are deliberately ignoring ...