Lawrence O’Donnell talks with Peter Montgomery (Religion Dispatches) about Pastor David Barton who puts out false quotations from our country’s founders and twists Bible scriptures to fit the far right agenda.
If Jefferson signed “thousands” of treaties with the Netherlands, then it must have been a really contentious time. In all seriousness, the only document they found like that (as pointed out by Nougat above) is a pre-printed form the Netherlands used, and Jefferson signed. Jefferson didn’t originate it, write it, promote it – it was [...]
Why is this important, you ask? Glenn Beck is fond of warning his viewers that America is sliding towards some sort of mutant totalitarian amalgam of socialism and fascism (oxymoronically ignoring the fact that through most of the early 20th Century Nazis and Communists were at each others throats) but Beck seems to have learned [...]
