Category Archives for Newt Gingrich

Who Is Really Trying to Intimidate the Judiciary?

By Dan | Published April 5, 2012

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is upset about President Obama’s comments that a Supreme Court decision to overturn the health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, would represent “unprecedented, extraordinary” judicial activism. Senator McConnell said today that the president is trying to “intimidate” the Supreme Court: “With his words, he was no […]

Also posted in Phyllis Schlafly, Republican Party of Texas, Rick Perry, Supreme Court, TFNEF | 4 Comments

Franklin Graham’s Double Standard

By Jose | Published February 21, 2012

Unbelievable. Just a few days ago we told you about a good ol’ tactic right-wingers like to use: questioning a politician’s Christianity or claiming the politician is not Christian at all. This morning it was Franklin Graham’s turn. Graham, the son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, was on MSNBC’s Morning Joe taking questions from the […]

Also posted in Franklin Graham, religious right, Rick Santorum, TFN | 18 Comments

Chuck Norris, the Bible and Newt Gingrich

By Dan | Published January 20, 2012

You just can’t make this stuff up. A little background: Back in 2007, actor Chuck “Walker, Texas Ranger” Norris attacked the Texas Freedom Network because we had pointed to dangerous flaws in proposed legislation requiring that Texas public schools teach classes about the Bible. Calling TFN “paranoid,” Norris falsely argued that we were “fighting against […]

Also posted in 2012 Elections, Bible in schools, Chuck Norris, TFN | 17 Comments

Is Rick Perry OK with Open Marriages?

By Dan | Published January 19, 2012

Today Texas Gov. Rick Perry ended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination and threw his support behind former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia. Perry’s withdrawal from the race wasn’t a big surprise — his support in polls was very low after a series of embarrassing stumbles and gaffes over the past few […]

Also posted in LGBT issues, marriage, Rick Perry | 7 Comments

David Barton, Jesus and Taxes

By Dan | Published March 26, 2011

The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified the fringe-right American Family Association as a hate group, but that didn’t stop politicians from flocking to AFA’s religious-right confab in Iowa this weekend. Yesterday, for example, maybe-presidential candidate Newt Gingrich spoke at the event, and he praised another speaker we’re all familiar with: phony historian David Barton, […]

Also posted in American Family Association, David Barton | 13 Comments

Courting John Hagee

By Jose | Published March 7, 2011

You would think that when the last guy to finish second in a presidential election rejected your endorsement, the next time around candidates for the nation’s highest elected office might be a little less willing to embrace you. You would think. But you’re not Texas’ own John Hagee.

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