“You’ll find almost verbatim wording in many clauses of the Constitution to passages in the Bible. It’s a one-to-one correlation on the wording.”
Liar David Barton Claims That U.S. Constitution Quotes ‘Almost Verbatim’ from Bible
Trump Says He Prefers a ‘Good Shutdown’ to Making a Deal With Dems to Fund Government
Frustrated with having to "do a deal" to fund the government Trump whined, "Our country needs a good 'shutdown' in September to fix mess!"
Frustrated Dictator Trump Says ‘Archaic’ Constitution is a Bad Thing for the Country
@POTUS on getting things done in government: "It's a very rough system. It's an archaic system...It's really a bad thing for the country."
Opinion: SCOTUS Hears Arguments To Tear Down Church and State Barrier
A ruling for theocracy will effectively demolish church-state separation and neuter the First Amendment’s religious clauses.
Rep Gutierrez Tells CNN Sanctuary Cities Are Actually ‘Fourth Amendment Cities’
“If you supply a warrant to the city of Chicago, we will absolutely honor that warrant. But you’ve got to get a warrant.”
Pat Robertson Says People Who Oppose Trump Are Revolting Against God
The First Amendment says "there is no...infringing on the freedom of the press." Not by Donald Trump. Not even by God.
Sean Hannity Wigs Out Over Morning Joe Criticism of Stephen Miller
"Steve Miller works 18 hour days serving the country and the @POTUS What do you do? Basically talk to yourself & @morningmika Nobody watches!"
Sen. Angus King: Trump Lacks ‘A Gut-Level Understanding of Checks and Balances’
"John Marshall settled that question in 1803. This is Mr. Trump meet Mr. Madison. Division of powers, independent judiciary, fundamental principals of our Constitution."
In Donald Trump’s America There is No Free Speech Without a Permit
Protesters at Denver International Airport were told by Denver police, “Stop doing anything that could be construed as free speech without a permit”
Donald Trump Announces He Will Be Leaving His Business to Avoid Conflict of Interest
"I feel it is visually important, as President, to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses"
Trump Announces Meeting With the People Who Will Run Government for the Next 8 Years
"Great meetings will take place today at Trump Tower concerning the formation of the people who will run our government for the next 8 years"
Newt Gingrich Says Pastors Have a Duty to Fight ‘Totalitarian Secularism’
"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"
Republicans Obsessed with Idea Witches Are Running Our Country – Yes, Really
“I know that there’s demonic forces in that city. I have personally met people that refer to themselves as witches, people that say they advise the senior leadership of the country.
Pastors Don’t Put Lipstick on a Pig – They Place a Crown On its Head
The meeting was as bizarre a convocation as any known to history, the disreputable hailing the disreputable and defending the indefensible by cloaking hate in sanctity
Washington Post Editorial Board Says ‘Oh Hell No’ to Trump Presidency
"We cannot salute the Republican nominee or pretend that we might endorse him this fall. A Trump presidency would be dangerous for the nation and the world"
Pat Boone Wants Blasphemy Laws to Punish Saturday Night Live
Boone says “there should be regulations that prohibit blasphemy” because SNL made fun of Christians pretending to be persecuted
Ted Cruz Will Roll Back Access to Contraception if Elected
Cruz says he will illegally order an investigation of Planned Parenthood and end requirement of contraceptive method coverage for employers
Trump Supporters Reject SCOTUS Nominee Merrick Garland Because He’s a Jew
According to Duke, "three open Jewish members" is too many on SCOTUS, because "those Jews" will do "whatever the Jewish agenda is"
Franklin Graham Freaks Out, Claims Secular Government is New to U.S.
Graham's big lie: “You talk about us being a secular government, a secular society — that’s only taken place in the last few years."
The Christian Jihadists Are at the Gates and They Want Your Rights
Christian jihadist terror is grasping at the heart of America, culminating in cries by presidential candidates usurp the Constitution
Southern Poverty Law Center Warns of More Insurrection to Come
Nobody did anything about Cliven Bundy's armed insurrection, so it hardly comes as a surprise that his son Ammon should up the stakes
Marco Rubio Says to Ignore SCOTUS Decision and First Amendment
Marco Rubio continues the Republican narrative that the Bible they haven't read trumps the Constitution they haven't read
Rand Paul Says You Don’t Have a Right to Pants
If that's true, what Paul is saying is that I DO have the right to pursue happiness without my pants.
Jeb Says Term “Islamic Terrorism” is not About Islam but Says “No” to Muslim Refugees
Jeb Bush says "Islamic terrorism" isn't really about religion but he sure doesn't want any Muslims in this country - even refugees
SCOTUS Be D*mned – Bobby Jindal Says No Earthly Court Can Redefine Marriage
Jindal insists he just wants the right to live his Christian faith, but what he really wants is to force US to live HIS Christian faith
Huckabee Wants to Thank SCOTUS for Their “Thoughts and Opinions” And Ignore Them
Mike Huckabee says he gets to decide what is constitutional or not, not the Supreme Court, which is given that job by the Constitution
Fox News Upset That School District – Like Jesus – Told Coach to Pray in Private
Liberty Institute says if Coach Joe Kennedy isn't allowed to continue praying - against Jesus' wishes - they will sue the school district.
CNN Host Drops U.S. Constitution Truthbomb on Ben Carson Supporter
Alisyn Camerota read the "No Religious Test" clause out loud and said, "Carson's belief system violates that part of the Constitution"
Kim Davis To Get an Award From Family Research Council for Excellence in Bigotry
Based on a fantasy version of the US Constitution, the Religious Right hails Kim Davis as a Savior and Gives her a Medal for Bigotry
Oath Keepers Plan to “Protect” Kim Davis from Arrest by US Marshals
The group said, "This judge needs to be put on notice that this sort of behavior is not going to be accepted and we'll be there to stop it"
Look Out! “General” Jerry Boykin Says Christians ARE the Government
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
David Barton’s Appalling Lie that the Constitution Puts God’s Law Above Man’s Law
Barton says the Founding Fathers were all about God's law trumping man's. The problem is, the idea is nowhere found in the U.S. Constitution
They’re Serious: Republicans Actively Calling To Shred the Constitution
The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. The GOP want to shred the Constitution to revert to legal white supremacy
Mike Huckabee Says he Will Use Military to Prevent Abortion
Asked in Iowa how he could stop abortion when it's perfectly legal, Huckabee said, "We'll see, if I get to be president."
Texas Republicans Violate The Constitution By Denying Citizenship To US Born Hispanic Children
Texas has been violating the 14th amendment, by refusing to issue birth certificates to American-born children of undocumented immigrants.
Mike Huckabee Vows To Resist Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling With Executive Orders
Huckabee declared that he would sign executive orders protecting businesses and churches who oppose gay marriage.
The Religious Right’s Full Page Denunciation of the United States Constitution
If you want a place where you tell everybody what God wants and then force everybody else to listen to you, you're in the wrong country
Rick Santorum Says He Decides What is Constitutional, Not the Supreme Court
Rick Santorum says says you refusing to believe what he wants you to believe is a violation of the First Amendment
In Challenging the Supreme Court, Republicans Challenge the Constitution
The upcoming SCOTUS marriage equality ruling is just another opportunity for Republicans to challenge the constitutionality of the Consitution
Religious Right Serves Restraining Orders On Supreme Court Justices Ginsburg and Kagan
Tt was no great surprise that evangelicals followed the lead of two congressional Republicans and issued religious orders restraining the 'wrong' kind of Supreme Court Justices from fulfilling their duly sworn Constitutional duty.
Fox & Friends: Priest Says Don’t Trust President Who Doesn’t Fear Eternal Damnation
Father Jonathan Morris took to Fox & Friends to push fear of eternal damnation while ignoring the Constitution's No Religious Test Clause
It’s Getting Hard to Tell Where Sovereign Citizens End and Republicans Begin
Both Republicans and so-called sovereign citizens are citizens and subject to federal authority. If not, we should rethink deportation laws
Apparently, Refusing to Stone Gays Means You’re Not a Christian
Of course, the pastor saying this also needs to be stoned for not following the Law of Moses
Bob Vander Plaats Says Exercising First Amendment Rights Mocks God
Yes, actually exercising your First Amendment right to have your own beliefs is a "huge concern" with "spiritual ramifications" in Iowa
S.C. Says Constitution Allows Discrimination Against Women So Gay Discrimination Is Okay
The crux of South Carolina's argument in support of discriminating against gays is that if it constitutionally permissible to discriminate against women, then it is perfectly legal to discriminate against gays.
As Religious Tyranny Arrives, Religious Freedom Lovers Flee Indiana
Indiana is the latest state to proclaim religious tyranny, and the reaction (no NCAA?) is anything but what Hoosier bigots expected
Mike Huckabee Says He Has Magic Powers and Will Use Them to Kill You
Mike Huckabee thinks he can call down fire from heaven to smite his opponents, an act (phew!) in violation of the United States Constitution
Using a Convention of States to Destroy the Federal Government for the Kochs
Republicans are supporting using Article V of the Constitution not to propose amendments to the Constitution, but to destroy the government
Senate Subcommittee Invites Hate Group Leader to Testify about Religious Freedom
Inviting hate group leader Tony Perkins to speak about religious freedom is just more evidence of the GOP's farcical approach to governance
It Is Time To Repeal the 10TH Amendment And Unify America
It is true that there was open rebellion and massive bloodshed as one faction that could not countenance a 'united' nation sought to rip the country apart, but the sentiment that engendered the Civil War is still alive and well due to one ill-advised amendment to the nation's founding document; the 10th Amendment.
Red State Voters Are Stupid For Electing Insane Republicans
One can hardly feel empathy for the people living under Republican extremists because unlike people suffering under fanatics in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and ISIS-controlled Iraq; red state extremists are chosen by incredibly stupid Americans to govern.
It’s Time To Face The Truth That Republicans Are Traitors
It is likely that throughout America's short history, except for the traitorous Confederacy, no group of individuals has exhibited the characteristic betrayal of a traitor more than conservatives in general, and Republicans in particular.
The Republican Passed Keystone Pipeline Bill Violates The Constitution
Every one of the Koch Republicans, and their oily Democratic cohorts, who voted to approve a State Department construction permit for TransCanada to build the KeystoneXL pipeline across America's international border with Canada are guilty of violating the Constitution's long-standing Separation of Powers.
Sen. Chuck Grassley Absurdly Claims Bill of Rights Dependent on Citizens United
The only thing keeping Republicans in power right now is money, and they'll tell any lies to hold onto that money.
Palin for 2016? Ha! It’s Ohio Governor John Kasich Who Has A Puncher’s Chance
A new 'serious' candidate just started kicking the tires for 2016. He's 62-year-old, twice married, Ohio Governor and former Congressman, John Kasich. Unlike Sarah Palin, he could catch on.
In 2014 America Abandoned Its Constitution And Devolved Into a Fascist Theocracy
Republicans in state after state spent the past year hastily passing legislation abolishing other Americans' 14th Amendment rights
Ben Carson’s Embarrassingly Stupid Attack on Obamacare
Ben Carson thinks Obamacare is unconstitutional because it doesn't help everybody. The only problem with that is that it DOES help everybody
Scalia Is Wrong: The Constitution Prohibits Torture and GOP Civil Rights Violations
Conservatives have proffered every possible scenario to justify torture, including Supreme Court Justice Scalia invoking a fictional television counter-terrorism agent, Jack Bauer, torturing alleged terror suspects to stop a fictional attack on America.
Of Black Men and Sea Changes – and Hope
Barack Obama and John Boyega were both attacked for taking a traditional white man's role: president and storm trooper
Racists Demand Punishment For African Americans Exercising First Amendment Rights
For decent Americans it is beyond comprehension that it is acceptable for white supremacists, whether they are St. Louis-area cops or owners of a sports bar, to demand that African Americans suffer punishment for exercising their constitutional rights.
Rick Santorum Lyingly Claims Separation of Church and State is Communist and un-American
In fact, the separation of church and state is something quintessentially American. Americans invented the idea, after all
Texas Republican Proposes Another Civil War By Ending The Union Through Nullification
The Civil War is something a Texas Republican legislator, Dan Flynn, is attempting to repeat through a proposal that empowers just two Texas Republicans, the state house speaker and lieutenant governor, with authority to suspend any federal law within Texas's border.
The First Amendment Protects All Religions – Including Satanism
You don't have to approve of a religion to understand and accept that every religion is on equal footing in the United States
Texas Legislator’s Biblical Proposal Abolishes Constitutional Equal Rights
Republicans and religious conservatives detest the 14th Amendment for myriad reasons, but chief among them is the guarantee of equal rights for Americans not in the biblical mold championed by Neo Christians; single mothers, atheists, Muslims, non-compliant Christians, and particularly gays.
Demand That Republicans Pledge To Support Democracy Or Get Out Of Politics
Although Republicans detest democracy, they certainly understand the principle behind it and instead of swearing an oath to support a document always open to interpretation, Americans should demand that all politicians pledge to support America's democracy; or leave office forthwith.
Bryan Fischer Says Government is Meant to be a Minister of God
"When government defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman...It's doing its job. It's fulfilling its role as a minister of God"
Victory for Democracy as Wisconsin and Texas Voter ID Laws Come Tumbling Down
Democracy called checkmate against Scott Walker's attempt to rig Wisconsin's vote, while a Federal Court slapped down Greg Abbott's attempt to suppress votes in Texas.
Right-Wing Justice Scalia is Crusading to Establish Religion by Constitutional Fiat
Koch and Vatican surrogate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delivered a judicial sermon at Colorado Christian University and informed 400 faithful Christians that the separation of church and state "doesn't mean the government cannot favor religion over non-religion."
The Values Voter Summit’s Promotion of Religious Tyranny is Un-American
These speakers want to fundamentally alter our way of life. In the ideal fake-Christian world, our freedom of religion would be an actual negation of freedom
Airman Ordered to Swear a Religious Oath or Get Out of the Air Force
The United States Air Force, itself sworn to "support and defend the Constitution," cannot abide by, support, or defend either the First Amendment or Article VI and rejected an atheist airman's attempt to reenlist to serve and defend his country unless he swears a religious oath.
Hobby Lobby Wasn’t Enough For Conservatives Who Want To Rewrite The Constitution
In fact, there is a desire among many extreme conservatives to hold a new Constitutional Convention to craft a new document that adheres strictly to their vision of a nation the Founding Fathers never intended.
The Supreme Court’s Shameless War on American Democracy
The Supreme Court ought to be protecting democracy. Like the other branches of the government, it answers to the people
Ted Cruz Lies and Claims Senate Democrats Will Abolish The 1st Amendment
Ted Cruz was introducing his father at the Watchmen on the Wall, sponsored by the extremist Family Research Council and combined the Koch-Republican-Supreme Court definition of money as speech with a very healthy dose of Republican fear mongering to influence evangelical fanatics into believing Senate Democrats were abolishing the 1st Amendment.
Fake Christians Tear Up the Constitution in Chesterfield County, Virginia
Wicca is "neo-pagan and invokes polytheistic, pre-Christian deities," and therefore it does not fall within "the Judeo-Christian tradition."
Beyond Discrimination Arizona’s 1062 Bill Gives Criminals a Get Out Of Jail Free Card
This abomination masquerading as legislation is precisely what the religious right and career criminals have dreamt of throughout their pathetic lives.
Virginia Marriage Equality Decision Exposes Religious Right’s Hatred of America
Religious Right leaders don't understand the spirit or the exact words of the Constitution, which they continually confuse with the spirit and words of the Bible they also don't understand.
Georgia Rep. Paul Broun Supports the Bible, Not the Constitution
Broun asks a question based on a false premise: "does it fit the Judeo-Christian Biblical principles that our nation is founded upon?"
Republicans Want to Change States’ Constitutions to Conform to Their Ideology
What happens when a constitution doesn't conform to the Republican Party's ideology? If it's the constitution of the United States, they revise its meaning, or make something up about the original intent of the constitutional protection.
Missouri Republicans Violate the Constitution with Attempt to Nullify Federal Law
In Missouri this week, Republicans moved forward another measure to nullify federal gun laws.
South Carolina’s Lee Bright Wants to Replace Lindsey Graham – and the United States
Bright says, "If the Tenth Amendment won't protect the Second, we might have to use the Second to protect the Tenth."
The Supreme Court Could Rule that Hobby Lobby is More of a Person than You Are
The problem is that if corporations have Freedom of Religion, its employers lose their Freedom of Religion
The Unfair Tax Exemption for Politically Active Churches Must End
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.
The Gettysburg Address 150 Years Ago And Now: Lincoln, Obama and The Great Task Remaining
One hundred fifty years later, President Lincoln's Great Task remains uncompleted.
Ex-Generals Say President Obama Must be Forced to Resign
Vallely and Jones want to violate the Constitution so they can call for adherence to the Constitution with strict congressional oversight of all executive actions
ENDA is Great but Do Not Count the Religious Loons Out
They claim to defend religious liberty but they need to read the Pledge of Allegiance with its vow of "liberty and justice for ALL"
Republicans Set The Constitution Ablaze While Killing One Million American Jobs
Since 2009, Republicans have broken their oath of office repeatedly by deliberately undermining the government's ability to function and creating as much economic damage by killing Americans' jobs.
The Senate has the Constitutional Power to Expel Ted Cruz
The Senate theoretically has the Constitutonal power to expel Ted Cruz by a two-thirds vote immediately and with no recourse.
Protesting Right Wing Truckers Are Hauling a Load of Constitutional Ignorance
A group of vigilante truck drivers will set upon Washington to demonstrate that when it comes to Constitutional ignorance, they have few peers outside the Republican Party.
Missouri Republicans Are Working on a New Secession Plan
Republicans have not given up on their dream for a Civil War do-over, when their ancestors made the apparent mistake to join the Union in suppressing the Southern rebellion.
Republicans Around The Country Are On A Law breaking Rampage
There is a definite patten among Republicans of finding some means of of ignoring , breaking, or circumventing laws that they disagree with.
Michele Bachmann Endorses Tyranny Over the Constitution
Michele Bachmann seems to envision an America governed not through the democratic process but through a prayer-tyranny of the bigoted few
Ralph Nader Attacks the Imperial Presidency but Ignores the Do-Nothing Congress
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.
The Republican Party and the un-Founding of America
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.
Republicans Shred the Constitution By Passing Unconstitutional Nullification Laws
Republicans are taking steps to shred the Constitution they claim to love and declare they were laws unto themselves by way of nullification.
Gov. Snyder’s Emergency Manager Law May Violate Equal Protection Rights
The clock is ticking, and Detroit's new Emergency Manager is listening. June 23 is the 50th anniversary of the date when Dr. Martin Luther King gave his first 'I Have a Dream' speech in Detroit.
It’s ALEC Not President Obama That is Trampling Constitutional Rights
There is a group of Americans attempting to force a segment of the population to give up their constitutional rights and it is not President Obama, but Republicans and their legislative arm ALEC.
Are We Giving Up Liberty for Perceived Security?
Trends in militarization, surveillance, and civil liberties violations raise disturbing questions about the exchange of liberty for security.
Guns are Just the Latest Symptom of the Right’s Anti-Obama Delusion
The current outrage from gun-fanatics that President Obama is sending federal forces to confiscate their precious firearms is a microcosm of the past four years of teabagger claims.
The Right Calls Obama a Dictator, but Sarah Palin Disarmed the Alaska Civil Militia
The same people who love Sarah Palin call Obama a dictator. But in 2008, then Gov. Palin stripped the militia of their guns and many powers.
Proposed Missouri Law Would Throw Federal Agents in Prison Over Guns
If you think a person is violating the Constitution, you don't violate the constitution yourself as a remedy and expect anyone to take you seriously.