Last weekend, Mike Huckabee made an appearance at the “Rediscover God In America” conference in Iowa. This is an event that promotes the idea that America is a “Christian Nation” founded on Biblical principles. Also at this conference was “scholar”, and I use that term loosely, David Barton. David Barton is a leading voice in [...]
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Let me be clear. I am not a fan of US military intervention in Libya. I am also not a fan of standing by and doing nothing while people are slaughtered in the streets. Hence, I am still heavily conflicted over these events and feel as lost as Moses was in the desert. I am [...]
No, I’m not making this up. A March 29th email from Tea Party Nation headline blared “Destroy the family, you destroy the country!” This article was written by Dr. Richard Swier, a member of the Sarasota, Florida chapter of ACT! for America, a group founded by rabid Islamophobe Brigitte “every practicing Muslim is [...]
Arizona consistently ranks in the bottom 5, more often the bottom 2, when it comes to per-student education funding. Yet, year after year, the GOP led Legislature looks for new ways to gut education funding. When my family first moved here almost 30 years ago the Mesa Unified School District was one of the best [...]
Someday I hope the death penalty will be no more. Twenty years ago this month, Eric John King was sentenced to death for murdering two men at a south Phoenix convenience store during a 1987 armed robbery that netted about $73. On Tuesday morning, he was executed at the state prison in Florence. [...]
