From today’s TFN News Clips: “I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills, absolutely…. The indoctrination that is going on at the university level is a harm to our country.” — Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, speaking in an interview with Glenn Beck on Thursday. Stay [...]
From today’s TFN News Clips: “It’s a Biblical principle. If you double a teacher’s pay scale, you’ll attract people who aren’t called to teach.” — Alabama Republican state Sen. Shadrack McGill, offering a novel argument against raising teacher salaries. But McGill, who was speaking at a prayer breakfast, defended a 62 percent pay hike Alabama [...]
From today’s TFN News Clips: “I think it’s unnatural. I think it’s wrong that people touch other people’s private parts outside of special covenantal relationships.” — Texas state Rep. David Simpson, R-Longview, talking about airport security pat-downs by Transportation Security Administration agents. Stay informed with TFN News Clips, a daily digest of news on issues [...]
From today’s TFN News Clips: “What you see is what you get, and he stands on the same foundation that I stand on. He acknowledges God in his life, and without God, where would we be? He’s not like some pastors who think they own their church. He acknowledges those around him. And his wife [...]
From today’s TFN News Clips: “I want the full portrait of evolution and the people who came up with the ideas to be presented. It’s a worldview and it’s godless. Atheism has been tried in various societies, and they’ve been pretty criminal domestically and internationally. The Soviet Union, Cuba, the Nazis, China today: they don’t [...]
From today’s TFN News Clips: “If you want to know why we can’t pass legislation in Texas, it’s because we have 37, no 36, Hispanics in the Legislature. All of the states that have passed legislation have a handful and I mean literally, some of them have NO Hispanic legislators, well, maybe 3 or 5 [...]
From today’s TFN News Clips: “Religious fundamentalism is dangerous because it cannot accept ambiguity and diversity and is therefore inherently intolerant. Such intolerance, in the name of virtue, is ruthless and uses political power to destroy what it cannot convert.” – Rev. Peter J. Gomes, a Harvard minister, theologian and author, in an essay published in [...]
From today’s TFN News Clips: “The latest rumor I hear, and I don’t know if this is true or not, is that he’s used about 25 different Social Security numbers … YouTubes are infallible.” – Texas state Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, casting doubt on President Obama’s citizenship and citing an Internet source for his doubts. Stay [...]
From today’s TFN News Clips: “[I]f the Beshear administration is determined that Kentucky should cash in on its stereotypes — and wants to fight Indiana to snare the theme park — why stop with creationism? How about a Flat-Earth Museum? Or one devoted to the notion that the sun revolves around the Earth? Why not a [...]
