Category Archives for Mike Huckabee

Rafael Cruz: Separation of Church and State Is a ‘One-Way Wall’

By Dan | Published April 22, 2014

David Barton wasn’t the only prominent speaker (see here, here and here) at the Texas Renewal Project event on April 3-4 in Austin. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and Rafael Cruz, father of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, were among the list of right-wing evangelical speakers at the gathering of hundreds of pastors and […]

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Huckabee, Liberty Institute: Ignoring God Leads to Mass Shootings Like in Connecticut

By Dan | Published December 17, 2012

It didn’t take long for religious-righters to use the horrifying tragedy in Connecticut last week as another opportunity to bash America for supposedly ignoring God. Today, for example, a Texas-based group with too many names — Liberty Institute presently, formerly Free Market Foundation, and now with a special offshoot called Texas Values — proclaimed its […]

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Fox News’ Huckabee: Get Your Facts Straight

By Jose | Published March 16, 2012

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has some gall. In the wake of this week’s silly spat over the Doonesbury series of comic strips depicting a woman undergoing a state-forced transvaginal sonogram before getting a completely legal medical procedure, Huckabee called out Doonesbury author Garry Trudeau for not checking his facts. In doing so, Huckabee ironically […]

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The More You Know

By Jose | Published May 17, 2011

Mike Huckabee is after your children! No, really, he is. The former Arkansas governor, who until last Saturday toyed with the idea of another run at the White House, has come out with a cartoon retelling of America’s history, available on DVD (and for $9.95 for the first episode). Below is a preview from the […]

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Listen to David Barton — or Else?

By Dan | Published April 8, 2011

Turns out that former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee hasn’t been praising David Barton just on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Last month Huckabee also touted the master propaganda artist and play-pretend “historian” at the religious right’s Rediscover God in America confab in Iowa. In fact, he thinks Americans should be forced to listen […]

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Huckabee’s Jeremiah Wright?

By Jose | Published April 7, 2011

Mike Huckabee should stop by the TFN website for the scoop on Texas’ own David Barton. The former — and maybe future — contender for the Republican presidential nomination made an appearance Wednesday on The Daily Show, where Jon Stewart spent most of the interview asking the former governor of Arkansas, “What about Dave?” In […]

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