If you thought the ‘birthers’ were nuts, they have nothing on Joel Gilbert. Rejecting the story that the Kenyan-born Barack Obama Sr. was President Obama’s father, Gilbert released a full-length documentary this July entitled “Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception” in which he argues that President Obama’s real father is […]
Did you know that there are 8 different kinds of marriage described in the Bible? We hear a lot about “Biblical marriage” these days, particular from right-wing conservatives battling the idea of same sex marriage or unions. The problem is that most of them are not clear on what that means. Here is a helpful […]
It’s time to call out conservative poverty myths and racial stereotypes. MYTH 1: Nearly all the primary recipients of assistance through federal benefit programs are African-Americans. Reality: 35.7 percent of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, recipients and 43 percent of those on Medicaid—two of the largest public benefit programs—are white. MYTH 2: The main […]
Conservatives are always going on and on about how President Obama has done nothing, which could not be further from the truth. This list has all been fact-checked and, in fact, is an abbreviated version of the list of promises that President Obama has kept from http://www.politifact.com/. Add another Space Shuttle flight Allocate Homeland Security […]
As we noted in Part 1, conservatives try to convince themselves (and the rest of the country) that President Obama has accomplished little – even with all evidence to the contrary. Truth seems a rare commodity in politics these days, particularly since the emergence of the Tea Party and other more extremist factions, although politicians […]