Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:32:59 pm
Republicans on the Texas State Board of Education have been fighting a desperate last ditch battle to shoehorn their superstitious creationism and climate change denial into public school science textbooks, but in the good news of the day, the board voted this morning to adopt the textbooks without compromising the ...

Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 6:09:43 pm
Some good news from the Republican War on Science: the major publishers are resisting pressure from creationists on the Texas State Board of Education to include religious right nonsense about climate change and evolution in science textbooks: We have now had our first look at changes publishers have submitted in ...

Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:39:36 am
The woman Governor Rick Perry personally chose to chair the Texas State Board of Education, Barbara Cargill, is a creationist. Are you surprised? You shouldn't be. This is what Republicans will do every time they get the chance. The Texas Freedom Network is keeping an eye on these religious fanatics, and they've ...

Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:57:08 am
Watch the full video (available later today) at: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow: The future of climate and energy policy featuring Lord Christopher Monckton and US Senator James Inhofe The current United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference, COP 18, is ongoing in Doha, Qatar and like all previous COPs ...

Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:09:36 pm
On the Stephen Colbert show, here's young earth creationist Don McLeroy, the fanatic appointed to the Texas State Board of Education by Rick Perry, and subject of many a post at LGF. Weep for the future of America, because McLeroy's stunning anti-science ignorance may seem extreme, but it's not unusual ...

Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:02:20 pm
Another thread to dissect the GOP debate in New Hampshire: [Debate's over, video's removed...] Favorite line of the night so far: when Rick Perry said, "That's why Americans are so untrustworthy." This is the guy who appointed creationists to head the Texas State Board of Education. Now you see why.

Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:33:13 pm
Steve Benen makes a good point here, about Rick Perry's statement that "in Texas we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools:" Perry may have no idea what goes on in Texas’ public schools, but if they’re teaching “both creationism and evolution,” they’re violating the law. It’s not ...

Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:54:34 am
(Credit: Gus 802.)At LGF we've been following the career of Texas Governor Rick Perry for years, often focusing on one of his "achievements" that has so far mostly eluded the mainstream media: Perry is undoubtedly the most determined, persistent, and outrageously overt creationist in the Republican Party, and arguably one ...

Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:42:12 pm
The religious fanatics on the Texas State Board of Education are gearing up for another fundamentalist hoedown, as Chairwoman Gail Lowe tries to stack the panel that will review the state's science curriculum with creationist loons. Lowe has nominated more potential panelists than any other board member. And a number ...

Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:22:23 pm
Peter Daou makes a good point about Christine O'Donnell's First Amendment gaffe -- to the right wing audience it was aimed at, this was not a gaffe. It's an article of faith (literally) on the right wing that separation of church and state was not the intention of the First Amendment. ...

Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:24:45 pm
Yesterday we noted the Texas State Board of Education's latest obsession: a resolution to limit what textbooks can print about Islam, based on out of context selections from books that haven't been used for seven years. The Republican creationists and fanatics on the board have decided it's their job to ...

Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:23:40 am
Here we go again with the Republican religious fanatics of the Texas State Board of Education. Led by young earth creationist Don McLeroy, now they're jumping on the anti-Muslim bandwagon and working themselves up into another frenzy of outrageous outrage over world history books that aren't even being used any ...

Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:20:48 am
The San Angelo Standard-Times interviews Texas governor (and GOP candidate) Rick Perry about his views on education, and out comes the ugly anti-science fanaticism again. Perry thinks the Texas State Board of Education is doing a terrific job, and he's "a firm believer" in teaching creationism in public schools. Do ...

Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:19:16 pm
So long, Thomas Jefferson. Been nice knowing you, separation of church and state. Hi there, Joe McCarthy! I thought you were dead? In Texas, social studies textbooks get a conservative make-over. In a move that has potential national impact, the Texas State Board of Education has approved controversial changes to social studies textbooks ...

Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:52:22 am
The religious fanatics who dominate the Texas State Board of Education are now debating their attempt to rewrite American history for the social studies curriculum, in one of the most appalling attempted fundamentalist power grabs I’ve ever seen. The Texas Freedom Network is liveblogging this travesty again, and they’ve posted a ...

Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:43:39 am
Today the social conservatives, creationists and religious fanatics who dominate the Texas State Board of Education are continuing their deadly serious effort to redefine the Constitution as an explicitly Christian document and stop teaching children one of the key concepts behind the United States — the separation of church and ...

Sat, May 15, 2010 at 2:35:51 pm
If you thought it was bad when the Texas State Board of Education tossed Thomas Jefferson out of the new social studies curricula, just wait … because you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. The religious fanatics led by creationist dentist Don McLeroy were only getting started. The Texas Freedom Network lists ...

Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:08:20 pm
So, I turn on Fox News just to see what the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour’s topic for the day is, and here’s Beck ranting about the need for more religion in government, in front of two blackboards covered with pictures of the founding fathers — who are no doubt rotating ...

Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:55:38 am
Here’s a picture of willful ignorance and appalling stupidity, as ABC News Nightline interviews young earth creationist Don McLeroy — the head of the Texas State Board of Education. Nightline correctly points out that the fundamentalist right wing agenda of Neanderthals like McLeroy is influencing education in the entire ...

Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:59:09 am
Texas State Board of Education member Mary Helen Berlanga walked out of the meeting today, in protest over the Republican religious fanatics’ attempts to turn sociology into a “whites only” course. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A longtime State Board of Education member accused her colleagues of “whitewashing” curriculum standards Thursday ...

Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:06:34 am
Yesterday in Texas, the State Board of Education, packed with Republican creationists and “social conservatives” by Governor Rick Perry, voted to take Texas schoolchildren back into the Dark Ages. Kids in Texas public schools will no longer be taught about one of the greatest political philosophers in American history, Thomas Jefferson. ...

Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:30:00 pm
Fox News is going to be heavily pimping the “founding fathers were Christian fundamentalists” canard tonight, courtesy of Michelle Malkin, James Dobson (Malkin does her interviews from Dobson’s TV studio), and Sean Hannity: michellemalkin: Will be on @hannityshow on FNC tonite 930pm Eastern to talk Texas educ stds/txtbook controversy. @seanhannity ...

Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:06:42 pm
Texas Governor Rick Perry may have won the Republican primary yesterday, but one of his main operatives, creationist dentist Don McLeroy, got thrown out. In the March 2, 2010, primary election, avowed young-earth creationist Don McLeroy narrowly lost his bid to be the Republican candidate for the District 9 seat ...

Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:27:36 pm
Rick Perry, who has stacked the Texas State Board of Education with anti-science religious fanatic creationists for the better part of a decade, is leading in the Texas GOP primary again. Imagine my surprise.

Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:44:41 am
The New York Times has a disturbing article about the far right conservatives in charge of the Texas State Board of Education, and their outrageous attempt to manipulate curriculum development and textbook production for public schools. The social conservatives appointed by Texas Governor Rick Perry (including infamous young earth creationist Don ...