I just read an excellent article by Timothy Egan at the New York Times, discussing how President Obama essentially saved the day and saw his party sent to the showers anyway. It’s a good example of the disconnect that the average American has with cold, hard facts. In the end, what took a bite out […]
Category: Misinformation
If you haven’t heard about the unbelievable moves in Texas to inject textbooks with Right-Wing Conservative ideology, it’s time to get up to speed. Activists on the Texas State Board of Education have been making changes to the curriculum in Texas that will help indoctrinate their children into a radically Conservative world-view, in the hope […]
I’ve been trying to explain to some of my well-meaning, but terribly misguided relatives why I have such a fundamental problem with the so-called Tea Party “movement”. Then I ran across an excellent article by Ron Rosenbaum on the Slate web site, which discusses the Tea Party revisionism and why, as I’ve contended, it’s dangerous […]
by Bill Quigley, CommonDreams.org Glenn Beck and other far right multi-millionaires are claiming that the US is hot on the path towards socialism. Part of their claim is that the US is much more generous and supportive of our working and poor people than other countries. People may wish it was so, but it is […]
Well, if you’ve ever wondered what the spawn of Right-Wing nutjob Phyllis Schlafly might be up to, here’s your answer. He founded an online “encyclopedia” intended as a right-leaning rebuttal to Wikipedia. You know, because facts seem to have a “Liberal bias” that conflicts with established Conservative ideology. In a recent interview, Andrew Schlafly said […]
An e-mail is making the rounds which encourages Americans to sign a petition that is supposed to be sent to President Obama, making the case that illegal aliens should not have access to Social Security benefits. Apparently there are wingnuts out there who believe that this is a problem. This petition is an updating of […]
An e-mail is circulating which contends that President Obama has approved a new stamp which celebrates a Muslim holiday. While the stamp exists, it was approved during the reign of his predecessor, not by President Obama, and it was released as part of a series by the U.S. Postal Service, not by some vaguely ominous […]
