On his MSNBC Hardball program last week, Chris Matthews was calling Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) a “balloon head” — somebody who speaks freely without knowing anything, about U.S. history, in particular, and somebody who need to go back to school to learn something about history, so that she might finally know something about the things she likes […]
State of the Nation: IN PERIL! (Bachmann speech / videos)
January 30, 2011 – 11:48 pm
By Tony Whitson
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GOP Congress candidate: Church|State separation comes from “Hitler’s mouth” (video)
September 16, 2010 – 5:54 pm
For all the attention being given to Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell’s upset of long-time popular Congressman and former Delaware Governor Mike Castle for the GOP nomination for Joe Biden’s seat in the U.S. Senate, relatively little notice has been paid to fellow Tea Partier Glen Urquhart’s upset of the mainstream GOP favorite for the […]
By Tony Whitson
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Posted in blog, civic education, Constitutional law, history, jaw, Politics, Religion, Texas
| Tags: Christine O'Donnell, Church and State, Danbury Baptists, David Barton, Delaware, Glenn Beck, Hitler, Tea Party, Thomas Jefferson, Urquhart, video |
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Tea Partiers & anti-democratic ignorance
June 14, 2010 – 4:09 pm
The fact that GOP and Tea Party candidates can get away with this nonsense — at least to the extent of garnering enough support to force runoff elections, if not to secure GOP nominations — demonstrates the sad state of historical education in this country. Alabama GOP runoff candidate Rick Barber is running this ad […]
By Tony Whitson
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Posted in blog, civic education, civic literacy, Education, history, jaw, Law & Policy, Politics, Religion, Social Studies, Texas, video
| Tags: American Revolution, Cynthia Dunbar, democracy, Dunbar, Rick Barber, Second Amendment, Sharron Angle, taxes, Tea Party |
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