http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/06/15/alabama-tv-execs-casualties-in-republican-war-on-1st-amendment Comments On: Alabama TV execs casualties in Republican war on 1st Amendment by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:00:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
My effort to get Boston to apologize including getting several board members of Americans United to confront Boston about his misleading article and one board member was so concerned that he visited with me on the phone countless times and helped me write a paper to be submitted for publication as a response in the Church and State Magazine, but Barry Lynn (who I spoke to also) later declined to publish it. http://thedailyhatch.org/2012/06/18/did-da…
Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:33:31 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:50:30 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Sun, 17 Jun 2012 09:02:53 -0500 Arkansas Times
Earlier, that gamblin' man who likes to lecture us about values and morals was on spewing his right wing bull shit about education. That would be Bill Bennet. He was President Reagan's Secretary of Education. I think anyone who understands so little about the odds in casino gambling to the point of losing 7 or 8 million dollars isn't smart enough to have anything to do with education

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/…

A more suitable position was as Bush père's Director of the National Drug Control Policy since he has first hand knowledge of addictions.

I can say with almost certainty that Bennett never had to pay for meals, hotel rooms, drinks or anything else his little black heart desired. Casino owners love high rolling losers like him and the comps just keep coming as long as they are at the tables.
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 17 Jun 2012 08:47:17 -0500 Arkansas Times
Saline can never admit he is wrong about any of the bull shit he peddles here. His mind is closed to rational argument. His time spent on this blog is a waste for him and arguing with him is a waste of time for us.

He is so obtuse, he can't see that a xtian theocracy would be as dangerous to him as it would be to the rest of us. There will always be usurpers, Saline---people who would find your interpretation of the historical and biblical texts in error and not pure enough. Your best protection from the purity police are people like Yossarian and I who will let you practice your beliefs as long as you don't force them on the rest of society.

I just wasted 10 minutes of my life that I will never get back. Maybe someone less rigid in their thinking will benefit from it.

I just checked out Barton's wiki page and he contends that Keith Ellison is not our first Muslim congressman. He cites an expression of sympathy that John Randolph of 19th Century Virginia wrote about Arab Muslims during the xtian crusades as proof. That's the kind of "impeccable" scholarship that Barton practices. Barton pals around with Glenn "vicks will make you cry" Beck. He will never out-charlatan Beck, but it won't be for lack of trying.
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 17 Jun 2012 05:55:00 -0500 Arkansas Times John Fea, mentioned in a previous post;
J. Brent Walker, Executive Director, Baptist Joint Committee, wrote:
"[Barton's] work...is laced with exaggerations, half-truths and misstatements of fact."

A book called "Getting Jefferson Right: Fact-Checking Claims About Our Third President" written by a pair of professors from Grove City College, a Christian institution in Pennsylvania.

http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/barton-s-…

http://padresteve.com/2012/04/21/faux-fact…

and dozens of other sources.

Barton is a side-show charlatan, making tons of money performing in the religious circuses and you have been duped.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Sun, 17 Jun 2012 03:05:52 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:40:31 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by RYD]]> Sat, 16 Jun 2012 01:08:32 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by historian]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:56:09 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by #RedScare]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:31:05 -0500 Arkansas Times http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/peo…
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:12:32 -0500 Arkansas Times
"I'm an evangelical Christian, and I think David Barton and Peter Marshall are completely out to lunch. They are not experts on social studies and history. Neither of them are trained in history. They are preachers who use the past and history as a means of promoting a political agenda in the present."
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:05:48 -0500 Arkansas Times >'Unconfirmed Quote List.'>>

You want "unconfirmed?" Let me suggest to you ONE BIG UNCONFIRMED:
Barton's claim that Congress "authorized" a publication of the Bible.
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:55:02 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:39:03 -0500 Arkansas Times >Max, David Burton is just a modern Parson Weems...

Don't ever overlook that David Barton was Vice-Chairman of the Texas Republican Party.

I cannot say if Weems and Wirt had a well-defined agenda but Barton's is clear.
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:14:46 -0500 Arkansas Times http://www.publiceye.org/ifas/fw/9705/quot…

Actually Barton has researched quotes of the founding fathers and come up with an "Unconfirmed Quote List" where he recommends not using quotes unless they have primary sources.

Barton's research concerning these unconfirmed quotes has brought nods of approval from both religious and secular arenas. Professor John George commented, "While not agreeing with Barton concerning separation of church and state, I must say he has done everyone a service by circulating the 'Unconfirmed Quote List.' Especially gratifying is his encouraging those in his own ... camp to cite only primary sources for the quotes they utilize. Unfortunately, a sizable minority will ignore the advice."
Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:10:45 -0500 Arkansas Times
For a group who spend a lot of time quoting Stalin and comparing Obama to him, the Tea Party sure does use a lot of Josef's tactics, with rewriting history and using the BIG lie at the top of the list.

And we have the purge of intellectuals, liberals, gays and other minorities to look forward to if they ever get power.
Posted by I_AM_THE_NRA]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:55:07 -0500 Arkansas Times
This Barton feller would make the Russians proud. Unfortunately, most Americans don't give a damn about history, that's why Fox News can dupe them into easily repeating our past mistakes for the profit of the 1%. I've recently found out for the first time how to ferret out real historical facts and it's hard hard work that most people won't mess with. They'd rather cut & paste what someone else wrote 58 years ago or do like Barton and just make it up. Either way the real facts get lost or molded into a message that serves the fake historian with an agenda.

We don't have to go back 200 years to get confused. Huckabee revisionist history serves as a good model. If everyone knew what a rotten guy Huck was & is, he'd have trouble getting a job at McDonalds. We just had a weeks worth of praise for Jennings Osborne though next to no one brought up the many thousands of dollars Jennings heaped on Huck's head over 12 years. Was that just a man-crush or something more sinister? We'll never know because Huckabee is too unimportant to ever deserve a real biography. One would think a 12 year crime spree covering an entire state would make him worthy of a historical investigation, but I guess not.


Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:51:50 -0500 Arkansas Times
No Mike, it was a mirror that Serrano held up for you to really see yourself. Huck went on to say how the Koran-burning pastor was ostracized and Serrano was not. "Piss Christ" was about how Christian symbols are cheapened and commercialized for the sake of more money and self-aggrandizement. Serrano was telling some Christians that their spirituality is in the toilet.
Posted by the outlier]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:28:26 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Cato]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:56:44 -0500 Arkansas Times