- Texas Ed Board Candidate Doubles Down on 'Pilgrims Were Communists' Claim
- More From Ed Board Candidate Spurlock: No Sex Ed, Kids 'Are Gonna Figure It Out on Their Own' Anyway
- Former Texas Ed Board Creationist Don McLeroy on Colbert Report Tonight
- Former Texas SBOE Member: Opposition to Teaching Creationism in Science Classrooms Is Like 'Pre-Holocaust Germany'
- Texas Ed Board Candidate Advocates Teaching Creationism in Science Classrooms
- Early Voting Begins in Texas: Vote in State Board of Education Races
Monthly Archives: October 2009
SBOE Committee to Discuss Ethics Concerns
This requires close watching. Faced with growing a growing list of ethics concerns regarding the Texas State Board of Education‘s management of the Permanent School Fund, the board’s Finance Committee is meeting on Friday to review ethics rules. The Austin American-Statesman has the story here. What isn’t clear, however, is whether some board members are more interested [...]
Posted in Permanent School Fund
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Hoping Hate Will Win Votes in Texas?
When it comes to right-wing extremism, sadly, Texas seems to provide an abundance — especially with political attacks on gay people. Case in point: Congressman Louis Gohmert, an East Texas Republican. Last week during debate over hate crimes legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Gohmert launched into a diatribe comparing homosexuality to bestiality, necrophilia [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
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New Revelations on SBOE Ethics Concerns
The Dallas Morning News just dropped another ethics bomb on the Texas State Board of Education. The newspaper reports that two board members “have received thousands of dollars in gifts from a company seeking a lucrative contract with the board, records show, and those members have not reported the gifts on financial disclosure forms.” Today’s [...]
Posted in Permanent School Fund, Uncategorized
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Petty
The news that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize today has generated a variety of reactions, with great surprise being perhaps the most common. Reasonable people can disagree about who should have received the award, and TFN takes no position on that question. But we think most Americans — except perhaps those at the [...]
Posted in Texas politics, Uncategorized
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‘God Unleashed His People’
That’s what happened earlier this spring at the Texas State Board of Education during the vote on new science curriculum standards for public schools, according to Kelly Shackelford of Texas’ Focus on the Family affiliate, Free Market Foundation. When it looked like the board was about to pass science standards that did not include creationist-inspired [...]
Posted in Kelly Shackelford, Liberty Institute, religious right
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Richard Land: Health Reform = Nazism
That’s pretty much what religious-right pooh-bah Richard Land said last month at a Christian Coalition gathering in Florida. Reform efforts promoted by President Obama and congressional Democrats will lead to rationed care, which is based on Nazi ideology, Land said: “I want to put it to you bluntly. What they are attempting to do in [...]
Posted in religious right
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Politicizing the Bible
This can’t possibly be a surprise to anyone, right? The far right has spent decades using religion as a political weapon to divide Americans. But now the folks behind the Conservative Bible Project want to censor and rewrite the Bible to align scripture more closely with their fringe ideology. We’re not making this up. “Liberal bias [...]
Posted in religious right
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Growing Concern over Texas SBOE Ethics
A major story and two scathing editorials in the last few days show that concerns over possible financial shenanigans and vote-trading on the Texas State Board of Education are growing. We told you last week about ethics concerns (see here and here) surrounding the state board’s management of the Permanent School Fund. Today the San [...]
Posted in Permanent School Fund
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