TagsTagsMitt Romney was on the defensive today at an education roundtable in Philadelphia, trying to tell teachers that smaller class sizes are less important than "school choice:" Romney Defends Class Size Stance to Teachers. (CNN) - Mitt Romney, who is spending this week promoting a plan for America's public school ...
Mitt Romney, Education, Home Schooling, Election 2012, Religious Right
Oregon GOP congressional candidate Arthur Robinson, subject of several posts at LGF, was on the Rachel Maddow show tonight. And you won't believe how crazy this one gets. Robinson claims to be a scientist, when he's one of the most rabid, irrational anti-science GOP fools in an election full of them. ...
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Recently we’ve had several front page posts about Arthur Robinson, the GOP mutant candidate for Oregon’s 4th Congressional District, and his incredibly strange views on … well, everything. In addition, LGF reader freetoken put together an excellent Page on Robinson’s Christian Dominionist connections. But it gets worse: Oregon GOP Congressional Candidate ...
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From PageOneKentucky.com, here’s a video of GOP candidate Rand Paul addressing a convention of Christian homeschoolers, and dodging a question about the age of the Earth. [Video] The questions asked by the homeschoolers in the video: 1) are you a Christian, 2) how old is the Earth, and 3) will you ...
Rand Paul, Kentucky, Ron Paul, Bad Craziness, Far Right, GOP, Creationism, Anti-Science, Home Schooling
Here’s more data on the extreme views of Arthur Robinson, the GOP mutant candidate for Oregon’s 4th Congressional District, who says we really ought to Dump Oil and Nuclear Waste at Sea. The oceans are starved for it. “Wastes dumped into the deep ocean will soon reach the bottom, where they ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Oregon, Far Right, Arthur Robinson, Creationism, Climate Change Denial, Home Schooling, Theocracy, Religious Right, Bad Craziness
Rand Paul’s getting all the media attention for his ludicrous comments about the Civil Rights Act and the BP oil spill, but he is actually far from the most extreme Republican nominated last week. Meet Arthur Robinson, who won the GOP nomination for Oregon’s 4th Congressional District. Mr. Robinson is so full ...
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Does this qualify as a mild form of child abuse: teaching children to distrust science and believe lies? I think it does. I don’t believe it’s appropriate to try to stop these parents (through legislation) from destroying their children’s ability to think critically, but it’s not hard to make a case ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Home Schooling, Bad Craziness
Fort Wayne’s Journal Gazette has a report on some home-schoolers teaching their children to reject modern science. Part of the reason the Neffs opted for home schooling was scheduling. Mark Neff, Jennifer’s husband, works second shift, and if his children attended a traditional school, he’d never see them, she says. Plus, ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Home Schooling, Fundamentalism
Frank Schaeffer, son of the late Calvinist preacher Francis Schaeffer, has some very interesting insights into the nature of the Christian far right — the extreme fundamentalists behind much of the home-schooling movement — and their almost total withdrawal from American culture: Glenn Beck and The 9/12 Marchers: Subversives From ...
Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Calvinism, Rushdoony, Dobson, Home Schooling, Far Right
Our post about the child custody case in North Carolina (in which a judge ordered a home-schooling mother to put her kids in public school) was hotly debated, with more than 1400 comments; now there’s a written decision from the judge making it clear that the media’s reporting of the ...
A judge in Raleigh, North Carolina, has ordered a woman who was home-schooling her children with creationist beliefs to put them in public school. RALEIGH, N.C. — A judge in Wake County said three Raleigh children need to switch from home school to public school. Judge Ned Mangum is presiding ...