Back in the day, during the Reagan era, New York Democrat and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan termed the GOP the “party of ideas†because of their growing reputation for intellectual prowess. At the 2016 Republican National Convention, despite all indications to the contrary, self-proclaimed idea-man Paul Ryan kept this illusion alive, declaring, “It still comes…
In the early moments of the American republic, the nation’s sovereignty and security presented no small worry to the founders. In the 1790s, independence was in its fragile infancy, a nascent experiment threatened by the former mother country; and the French Revolution created anxiety those violent passions would spill overseas, inspiring more upheaval in the…
Steve King tweeted that “culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”
James Madison said representatives should be able to “withstand the temporary delusion” to “give time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.”
Jefferson stating separation of church and state is contained within the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is “unhistorical” according to Sessions.
“[T]he serious enemies are the priests of the different religious sects, to whose spells on the human mind its improvement is ominous.”
“I think you have a duty…to have the courage to stand up and tell the truth; tell the truth about those who would impose a totalitarian secularism on us”
The Republican Bevin’s “insurrection talk†has elicited the second call for his impeachment as governor in six months; the first came within a month of him being sworn in office as Kentucky governor.
“Imagine what our country could accomplish if we started working together as one people, under one God, saluting one flag.”
The Panama Papers reveal how the elite work against us. If our cry should not be “off with their heads!” it should at least be “off to the IRS!”
Some may argue that evangelicals lack any humanity, because if they did they would not be driven by inhumanity toward anything not Christian
Kentucky taxpayers are being “compelled” to spend at least $18 million to build and support the Answers in Genesis Noah’s Ark theme park
Ted Cruz’s father says public education is a communist plot, but for the Founding Fathers, it was America’s hope for the future
David Barton got his book of lies about Jefferson back into print again, thanks to the liars at World Net Daily, a match made in hell
The GOP and Religious Right have been throwing fake Founding Father quotes at us for years. John Oliver hilariously rips this industry apart
Ben Carson claims the Founding Fathers would have rejected a Muslim president, but their words show him to be a liar
Ben Carson repeatedly used a quote he attributed to Thomas Jefferson to justify his gun position. Unfortunately for Carson, Jefferson said no such thing.
Boykin claims “when you hold up a Bible, you need to hold up the Constitution right next to it” and pretend they’re the exact same thing
Bill Maher poked the Religious Right’s persecution myth full of holes. Joseph Farrah’s attempt to discredit Maher only discredits himself
Compare this list of Roman edicts of toleration to a current Republican list – oh wait, there isn’t one
It is hardly a surprise the Religious Right does not want to talk to those of other religions. After all, it’s harder to hate those you get to know
Because Republicans depend on “the widespread ignorance of objective reality,” their fascist threat to democracy is only succeeding due to the abundance of ignorance and gross stupidity of America’s uneducated citizenry. Subsequently, Republicans are building on their success and slashing education funding at a record pace to produce an entire population of stupid conservative voters.
The 21st century is seeing the spread of the authoritarian principle that far from being the origin of authority, people must obey authority
Barack Obama and John Boyega were both attacked for taking a traditional white man’s role: president and storm trooper
In fact, the separation of church and state is something quintessentially American. Americans invented the idea, after all
Had the Founders heeded Moses, we would never have had a Constitution forbidding religious tests in the first place, or a First Amendment in the second
You don’t have to approve of a religion to understand and accept that every religion is on equal footing in the United States
Bryan Fischer wants an Evangelical conclave to choose candidates for president. Tough luck, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Atheists, and others
It’s a neat trick, pretending facts don’t exist so you can replace them with some agenda-friendly invented facts. *Cough* Benghazi *Cough*
Pope Francis has declared that evolution and the Big Bang are facts, no longer to be debated, saying of evolution: When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. He created human beings and…
Jody Hice’s new “Big Idea” is that state-sponsored religion, forbidden by the First Amendment, will put an end to government tyranny.
The organizers behind Pulpit Freedom Sunday do not even contend they are prohibited from preaching religion, they complain they cannot preach Republican politics and are seeking redress through the courts to use taxpayer dollars to campaign for Republicans.
Over the past six years after every election, a relatively common question is why do so many Americans dependably vote against their own self-interests. Despite poor white people in southern red states barely surviving on slave wages, welfare, food stamps, and no adequate healthcare, they routinely vote for Republicans openly campaigning on driving their constituents deeper into poverty.
The judge, Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood, identified the Republican legislation, “Opportunity Scholarship Program,” as a scam to “siphon money from the public schools in favor of private schools and allows funding of non-public schools that discriminate on account of religion.”
Republicans at all levels of government, at the behest of the religious right, have launched a vicious crusade to eliminate well over half the population’s liberty to control their own actions and the ability to choose how one conducts their life. It is beyond refute that the attacks on women’s sexuality and reproductive health.
The Supreme Court ought to be protecting democracy. Like the other branches of the government, it answers to the people
This is the “freedom” demanded by the Religious Right – the freedom to hound those of whom they don’t approve, right out of town, and out of existence, if possible
Dan Forest told the Faith and Freedom Coalition this weekend, “America is at a great crossroads where it must decide for or against God.”
Jindal says Common Core is a federal plot to takeover education, as though the Founding Fathers didn’t support the public funding of education.
The notion of so-called Christians exposing themselves as the anti-Christs they really are is being played out in the drive to put more guns in the hands of more Americans, especially conservative Christian Americans; it is no surprise it is being advanced by right-wing Christian churches.
When Americans in the near future look back and wonder how, why, and when their democracy was lost to theocracy, and the Constitution replaced with the bible, they can look back at the Court’s ruling as a pivotal moment, not the deciding moment, in democracy’s demise but a very significant one all the same.
The Supreme Court is likely not done facilitating theocratic tyranny or disabusing the people from their 1st and 14th Amendment rights if right wing extremists have their way.
Religious conservatives have been thrown into a frenzied panic because a federal judge struck down what they thought was their dog-given right to impose biblical law on people.
Sarah Palin’s contention that Founding Fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would join her in the war against the imagined war on Christmas is too much of an affront to American history.
Every time Republicans decry President Obama’s economic policies as Marxist, socialist, or communist, they are in effect condemning the Pope, Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, and Jesus Christ.
There is a simple solution that will satisfy the Christian churches and the secular groups suing for equality, and it is simply stripping the tax-exempt status from all churches.
“I’m really scary,” Barton declared. “I am very scary for people who have a secular worldview.”
According to Hagee, “America is becoming a pagan society; we are in a moral free-fall.”
Republicans are using public school funds to teach Christian conservative ideology in place of science and American history.
Law enforcement officials have been staunch opponents of legalizing the weed for personal or medicinal use because as contraband, it is a major source of funding for law enforcement.
Obama clearly understood the need to remind Americans of Jefferson’s words at the beginning of his speech, and it is evident that Republicans need to be reminded that “all men are created equal.”
Conservatives love to invent quotes to back up their positions and they hate it when somebody – including “communist” CNN – corrects them
For Thomas Jefferson, religious freedom was neither freedom to coerce nor a coerced mind, but rather a free mind
Let’s remember to celebrate our declaration of independence, a political act whose primary intent was to achieve a government that worked.
Apparently, those who find themselves in violation of God’s law, lose their rights under Republican governance
Ralph Nader is railing against the “imperial presidency” but has nothing to say about our runaway, do-nothing Congress. It makes no sense to rail against the one while ignoring the other.
Republicans claim to be the defenders of the Constitution; this while wishing to do away with every amendment save the Second and the Tenth- narrowing Republican goals to guns and secession.
Apparently if you actually exercise your First Amendment rights to be something other than Christian, you’re dangerous.
American capitalism supported white indentured servitude before and alongside black slavery and relinquished it only reluctantly.
Oklahoma Pastor James Taylor says if you can refrigerate something (like shellfish) it isn’t an abomination anymore
As our nation celebrates Martin Luther King Jr, conservatives choose NOT to remember him, but to misremember him as a conservative
How do America’s most extreme gun enthusiasts want to live? You’ll soon get to find out as they build their own city in the mountains of Idaho
“All I want for Christmas is to kill it,” seems to be the song conservatives think liberals sing each and every holiday season. Fox News has made a lucrative living pushing a nonexistent war on Christmas, seizing on every example of religious pluralism in this country – that is, the right of people to believe…
Regardless if religious organizations abuse their agreement with the IRS or not, it is long past the time to end their government-sanctioned and taxpayer-funded entitlements once and for all.
The Religious Right says some laughable things, but there is nothing laughable about their money, power – or influence on American politics
Ask yourself why the laws of mathematics work differently for Mitt Romney than for the rest of the universe before casting your vote in 2012
Kirk Cameron has been stoning gays and lesbians but wants to present himself as the victim because people dared criticize his hate speech
Joseph Farah just can’t wrap his mind around a Christianity that includes its Christ, and attacks Jim Wallis for getting Jesus right
It is un-American to have as a president a man who preaches religious intolerance and who promotes the idea of state-sponsored religion
Most of us like a little reality in our diet, but the Republican Convention seems to be focused more on how to mainstream the crazy
In a newsletter the Virginia Republican Committee is telling Republicans that if President Obama wins reelection, armed revolution will be their only option.
David Barton’s Christian publisher may have dropped his book of lies and who better to save lies about a Founding Father than Glenn Beck?
Barton can’t win an argument on merits so he attempts to delegitimize critics instead by assigning them to the category of constructed “other”
David Barton found himself without a publisher Friday when Thomas Nelson pulled his books from the shelves and canceled its publication
We need to believe in the competence of our public institutions for our society to function. When they don’t function, how should we react?
Less Than One Million Moms wants to boycott NBC’s The New Normal, which features two gay parents and a surrogate mother to give them a child
Barton’s The Jefferson Lies has been criticized by scholars, but Barton won’t argue history: he’s more interested in character assassination – and his own martyrdom
Nothing is more liberal than a revolution; the best conservatism can manage is counter-revolution to restore the status quo lost to liberals
David Barton’s deputy Rick Green and the ACLJ’s David French claim that criticism of David Barton proves that Barton is telling the truth
Thomas Jefferson once hoped to liberate us from being trapped by beliefs not our own but the GOP has made trapping us the basis of their platform
The GOP stance on abortion hinges on religious dogma, not on science and even when science does enter the picture it is 18th century science
Two conservative Christian scholars team up to debunk Barton’s The Jefferson Lies, exposing Barton’s lies of commission and ommission and cherry picked evidence
In the Jefferson Lies (2012), David Barton lets loose a barrage of lies and invents terms to turn Thomas Jefferson into a non-racist, clergy-loving Christian
Jeffrey T. Kuhner of the Edmund Burke Institute, who last year accused President Obama of having “black nationalist sympathies” (whatever those are) wrote a column for the Washington Times on February 23, which he entitled Obama’s pseudo-religion, arguing that the “President’s secular moves†are “out of step with Judeo-Christian culture.†His claim is that “Mr. Obama is…
While speaking at Hampton University today, President Barack Obama did something subtle today. He took Thomas Jefferson and the actions of the Revolutionary War patriots away from the Tea Party and applied them to all America, “What Jefferson recognized, like the rest of that gifted generation, was that in the long run, their improbable experiment, America, wouldn’t work if its citizens were uninformed.”
The press fawned over Sarah Palin when she arrived at last night’s Time 100 Gala, stepping over themselves to get a photo of the gal who refused to speak to them until they show “deference” to her as she was campaigning to be Vice President of America and has not yet held a press conference or taken unscreened questions from the press. Palin quoted Thomas Jefferson, whose prophetic quotes suggest he saw Palin coming.
