Texas Board of Education Attacks the Enlightenment
“Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change” by James McKinley, Jr.; The New York Times; 3/12/2010.
Comment: Because of its size, Texas wields a disproportionately large influence over school curricula. The Texas Board of Education’s decision to delete textbook references to Thomas Jefferson in favor of mention of Thomas Aquinas and Jean Calvin will affect far more than [...]
GOP: Unemployment Insurance Bad for Economy
Comment: Yearning for the pre-New Deal days, GOP spokesmen have been characterizing unemployment insurance as being bad for the economy, because it discourages people from seeking work!
“Political Animal: GOP Still Doesn’t Like Unemployed” by Steve Benen; Washington Monthly; 3/8/2010.
It’s astounding, but in the midst of an unemployment crisis, prominent Republicans continue to castigate those struggling to [...]
Grover Norquist’s GOP Jihadists
“Grover Norquist’s Jihad” by Pamela Geller; American Thinker; 3/4/2010.
Comment: Criticism of GOP kingpins Grover Norquist and Karl Rove, architects of the Islamic Institute (a Muslim Brotherhood adjunct to the GOP), has been sparse. A continuing tragedy is that much of that sparse criticism comes from members of the conservative community who have retained enough integrity [...]
Big Oaks from Little ACORNs Grow: Karl Rove, White Supremacists and the Forging of a Non-Scandal
Comment: With the Bush administration having destroyed the economy, along with just about everything else, the GOP right has been beating the rhetorical war drums about ACORN. Between the lines, they are implying that the collapse of the housing market and, thus, the financial industry was produced by poor blacks and Llatinos buying homes they [...]
GOP Rhetoric Associating Obama and Tiger Woods
Comment: In FTR #702, we touched on the Tiger Woods imbroglio and speculation that psychological association between Woods and Obama–what research psychologists call “stimulus generalization”–may have underlain that case.
Recently, Governor Tim Pawlenty–viewed as a possible 2012 GOP presidential candidate–directly referenced that association.
“CPAC 2010 Updates:Latest News, Video from Conservative Political Action Conference”; Sam Stein, Ryan Grim, Michael [...]
FTR #699 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates
Anti-Semitic GOP bigwig shepherding Sarah Palin around Washington; McVeigh mentor working with Alaskan secessionists; Germany doesn’t like US coziness with China and Underground Reich elements working to subvert that relationship; British fascist represents EU Parliament at Copenhagen talks.
Nazi/SS Collaborator Stephan Bandera Named “Hero of Ukraine”
The largest Jewish human rights organization in the US, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, joined the chorus of those who condemn the declaration of controversial nationalist leader Stepan Bandera as a Hero of Ukraine.
Guess Who Came to Iftar for Dinner?
by Diana West (10/05/07)
“ . . . In 2003 and 2004, President Bush asked Faizul Khan, who is affiliated with the Saudi-funded Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., and serves on the board of directors of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), to give the blessing. This year, the Justice Department officially labeled ISNA as [...]
FTR #697 Christian Fundamentalism and the Underground Reich
‘The Family’ is the foundation of U.S. fundamentalism and was central to the rehabilitation of Third Reich Nazis to serve in the “New” Germany, as well as U.S. intelligence.
FTR #693 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates
Blackwater security outfit plots to kill whistleblowers; deadly pathogens missing from Ft. Detrick; viruses mutating to infect other species; the bailout hasn’t assured economic security and has made the institutions that are “too big to fail” even bigger.
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