Back in the day, during the Reagan era, New York Democrat and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan termed the GOP the…
In the early moments of the American republic, the nation’s sovereignty and security presented no small worry to the founders.…
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…
Jefferson stating separation of church and state is contained within the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is "unhistorical" according…
"[T]he serious enemies are the priests of the different religious sects, to whose spells on the human mind its improvement…
"I think you have a duty...to have the courage to stand up and tell the truth; tell the truth about…
The Republican Bevin’s “insurrection talk” has elicited the second call for his impeachment as governor in six months; the first…
"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!"…
Some may argue that evangelicals lack any humanity, because if they did they would not be driven by inhumanity toward…
Kentucky taxpayers are being "compelled" to spend at least $18 million to build and support the Answers in Genesis Noah's…
Ted Cruz's father says public education is a communist plot, but for the Founding Fathers, it was America's hope for…
David Barton got his book of lies about Jefferson back into print again, thanks to the liars at World Net…
The GOP and Religious Right have been throwing fake Founding Father quotes at us for years. John Oliver hilariously rips…
Ben Carson claims the Founding Fathers would have rejected a Muslim president, but their words show him to be a…
Ben Carson repeatedly used a quote he attributed to Thomas Jefferson to justify his gun position. Unfortunately for Carson, Jefferson…
Boykin claims "when you hold up a Bible, you need to hold up the Constitution right next to it" and…
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,…
Because Republicans depend on "the widespread ignorance of objective reality," their fascist threat to democracy is only succeeding due to…
The 21st century is seeing the spread of the authoritarian principle that far from being the origin of authority, people…
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…
You don't have to approve of a religion to understand and accept that every religion is on equal footing in…
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…
Pope Francis has declared that evolution and the Big Bang are facts, no longer to be debated, saying of evolution:…
Jody Hice's new "Big Idea" is that state-sponsored religion, forbidden by the First Amendment, will put an end to government…
The organizers behind Pulpit Freedom Sunday do not even contend they are prohibited from preaching religion, they complain they cannot…
Over the past six years after every election, a relatively common question is why do so many Americans dependably vote…
The judge, Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood, identified the Republican legislation, "Opportunity Scholarship Program," as a scam to "siphon money…
Republicans at all levels of government, at the behest of the religious right, have launched a vicious crusade to eliminate…
The Supreme Court ought to be protecting democracy. Like the other branches of the government, it answers to the people
Dan Forest told the Faith and Freedom Coalition this weekend, "America is at a great crossroads where it must decide…
Jindal says Common Core is a federal plot to takeover education, as though the Founding Fathers didn't support the public…
The notion of so-called Christians exposing themselves as the anti-Christs they really are is being played out in the drive…
When Americans in the near future look back and wonder how, why, and when their democracy was lost to theocracy,…
The Supreme Court is likely not done facilitating theocratic tyranny or disabusing the people from their 1st and 14th Amendment…
Religious conservatives have been thrown into a frenzied panic because a federal judge struck down what they thought was their…
Sarah Palin's contention that Founding Fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would join her in the war against the imagined…
Every time Republicans decry President Obama's economic policies as Marxist, socialist, or communist, they are in effect condemning the Pope,…
There is a simple solution that will satisfy the Christian churches and the secular groups suing for equality, and it…
"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…
Obama clearly understood the need to remind Americans of Jefferson's words at the beginning of his speech, and it is…
Conservatives love to invent quotes to back up their positions and they hate it when somebody - including "communist" CNN…
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…
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…
Republicans claim to be the defenders of the Constitution; this while wishing to do away with every amendment save the…
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…
How do America's most extreme gun enthusiasts want to live? You'll soon get to find out as they build their…
"All I want for Christmas is to kill it," seems to be the song conservatives think liberals sing each and…
Regardless if religious organizations abuse their agreement with the IRS or not, it is long past the time to end…
The Religious Right says some laughable things, but there is nothing laughable about their money, power - or influence on…
Ask yourself why the laws of mathematics work differently for Mitt Romney than for the rest of the universe before…
Kirk Cameron has been stoning gays and lesbians but wants to present himself as the victim because people dared criticize…
Joseph Farah just can't wrap his mind around a Christianity that includes its Christ, and attacks Jim Wallis for getting…
It is un-American to have as a president a man who preaches religious intolerance and who promotes the idea of…
Most of us like a little reality in our diet, but the Republican Convention seems to be focused more on…
In a newsletter the Virginia Republican Committee is telling Republicans that if President Obama wins reelection, armed revolution will be…
David Barton's Christian publisher may have dropped his book of lies and who better to save lies about a Founding…
Barton can't win an argument on merits so he attempts to delegitimize critics instead by assigning them to the category…
David Barton found himself without a publisher Friday when Thomas Nelson pulled his books from the shelves and canceled its…
We need to believe in the competence of our public institutions for our society to function. When they don't function,…
Less Than One Million Moms wants to boycott NBC's The New Normal, which features two gay parents and a surrogate…
Barton's The Jefferson Lies has been criticized by scholars, but Barton won't argue history: he's more interested in character assassination…
Nothing is more liberal than a revolution; the best conservatism can manage is counter-revolution to restore the status quo lost…
David Barton's deputy Rick Green and the ACLJ's David French claim that criticism of David Barton proves that Barton is…
Thomas Jefferson once hoped to liberate us from being trapped by beliefs not our own but the GOP has made…
The GOP stance on abortion hinges on religious dogma, not on science and even when science does enter the picture…
Two conservative Christian scholars team up to debunk Barton's The Jefferson Lies, exposing Barton's lies of commission and ommission and…
In the Jefferson Lies (2012), David Barton lets loose a barrage of lies and invents terms to turn Thomas Jefferson…
Jeffrey T. Kuhner of the Edmund Burke Institute, who last year accused President Obama of having "black nationalist sympathies" (whatever those…
While speaking at Hampton University today, President Barack Obama did something subtle today. He took Thomas Jefferson and the actions…
The press fawned over Sarah Palin when she arrived at last night's Time 100 Gala, stepping over themselves to get…
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