Rick Perry, the Christocrat Favorite for President?
A religious right favorite tests the waters.
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Huckabee Launches Videos to Teach Kids About American Exceptionalism
If God says no to campaign, at least he’s got a business to fall back on.
Read MoreTea Party Patriots Pressure Public Schools to Adopt Skousen Curriculum
Skousen, popularized by Beck, was the Cold War era’s David Barton.
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Selling the Idea of a Christian Nation: David Barton’s Alternate Intellectual Universe
The issue is not Christian conservatives advocating their views in the public square. The problem, rather, is their claim (at least in places such as The Daily Show or the New York Times) that their Providentialist beliefs and readings of documents from the past represent a kind of legitimate scholarship that should have its place in the public “debate.”
Read MoreWhy Won’t David Barton Submit to Peer Review?
His approach damages scholarship and democracy.
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Pseudo-Historian David Barton in the Times and on The Daily Show
Glenn Beck’s favorite “historian” gets kid-glove treatment in the paper of record.
Read MoreWhy Tea Party (Hearts) David Barton
Christian nationalism finds harmonious home with smaller government anti-tax crusade. What a coincidence.
Read MoreReligious Right Historian: Net Neutrality is “Unbiblical Socialism”
A window into a world where ‘freedom’ is purely economic.
Read MoreHuckabee Channels Rushdoony
In defending David Barton, Huckabee embraces a Reconstructionist view of history.
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Huckabee: All Americans Should be Forced to Watch David Barton at Gunpoint
What separation of church and state?
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