By Ken Mercer, State Board of Education Member, 3/27/09

Common sense, combined with the pressure of at least 14,000 constituent communications in favor of allowing students to discuss all sides of science theories, finally prevailed.

On Thursday, March 26 at the Texas State Board of Education meeting, I moved to restore the twenty-year standard of “strengths and weaknesses” to the new science TEKS (standards).  These standards will guide teachers and textbooks for the next ten years. My motion failed by a 7-7 vote.

Condensed from an article by Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum President, 3/24/09

Nevertheless, according to Al Gore and the mainstream media, “the debate is over” proving that global warming exists, that humans are causing it and that “science is settled.”

By Cathie Adams, TEF President

When tested by the North Korea missile launch in violation of international law and in defiance of U.S. warnings, President Barack Hussein Obama stood down as he abdicated to the U.N. Security Council for strong sanctions against North Korea. He was rebuffed when Security Council members couldn’t agree on a resolution, and China and Russia decided that they would side with North Korea and Iran. 

In a major policy speech in Prague, President Obama committed the U.S. to a world without nuclear weapons, just as his Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced deep cuts in the U.S. missile defense program.

Condensed from an article by Robert Spencer, Front Page magazine, 4/7/09

"We will convey,” said Barack Obama to the Turkish Parliament on April 6, “our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country.”

Undeniably the Islamic faith has done a great deal to shape the world — a statement that makes no value judgment about exactly how it has shaped the world. It has formed the dominant culture in what is known as the Islamic world for centuries. But what on earth could Obama mean when he says that Islam has also “done so much” to shape his own country?

Condensed from an article by Dr. Ted Baehr, WND, 4/9/09

Reading Dan Brown’s “Angels And Demons” in preparation for the May release of the movie by the same name is an excruciating task. Not just because page after page wrong- fully attacks the church, but more so because he gets his history and his facts wrong, yet pretends to be intellectually astute.
G.K. Chesterton once said that, if a man doesn’t reason from first principles, he will go mad. Dan Brown’s “Angels And Demons” lacks a principled approach to history, science and religion, and therefore spreads lies and half-truths that have been circulating in the occult world for the last hundred years.