In case you missed it, Alex Knepper points out the problem with this ad:

“Manchin supports Barack Obama’s big government agenda…Manchin supported the government takeover of healthcare that cuts Medicare…”

The words “Government takeover of healthcare” are actually juxtaposed with “Cuts Medicare” on the screen.

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Do these newfound entitlement-lovers think that these cuts were made because Nancy Pelosi enjoys watching old people suffer?

It reminds me of the protesters against ObamaCare that were showing up at Town Hall’s in the Summer of 2009 saying that they opposed a government take over of health care because they didn’t want the government touching their Medicare, or the poll numbers showing that 25% of Republicans didn’t know that Medicare was a government program.

Campaigning against one government program by saying it will make cuts in another government program is not limited government, people.

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(CBS/AP)  Texas’ State Board of Education – following a long history of throwing itself into “culture war” issues – is set to vote Friday on a resolution calling on textbook publishers to limit what they print about Islam in world history books.

The resolution cites world history books no longer used in Texas schools that it says devoted more lines of text to Islamic beliefs and practices than Christian beliefs and practices.

“Diverse reviewers have repeatedly documented gross pro-Islamic, anti-Christian distortions in social studies texts,” reads a draft of the resolution, which would not be binding on future boards that will choose the state’s next generation of social studies texts.

The measure was first suggested to the board this summer by Odessa businessman Randy Rives, who lost his Republican primary bid for a seat on the panel earlier this year.

The conservative-leaning and heavily evangelical Christian board pushed the item to a vote.

Board member Pat Hardy, R-Fort Worth, suggested the issue may be moot because none of the books cited by Rives still are being used in Texas, having been replaced in 2003, and said Rives “might want to go back and get newer copies of the books.”

Don McLeroy, who is serving the final months of his term after also losing in the GOP primary, said he believes even current textbooks still reflect an anti-Christian bias.

“The biggest problem I saw was their overreach not to be ‘ethnocentric,”‘ McLeroy said of an Advanced Placement world history book approved in 2003 and still in use. “It’s a very, very, very, very biased book. Christianity didn’t even make it in the table of contents.”

McLeroy is one of the most outspoken of a group of board members who have pushed several conservative requirements for social study textbooks used in Texas, including that teachers cover the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation’s Founding Fathers.

“It’s that great idea. That radical idea of Judeo-Christianity, that man is created in the image of God. So if you have world history books that downplay Christianity – Judeo-Christianity – and it doesn’t even make it in the table of contents, I think there’s a great concern,” McLeroy said.

Some educators fear the debate might lead to a revision of history. “I was a social studies teacher, and, I’m sorry. History is what it is. It happened,” Gayle Fallon of the Houston Federation of Teachers told CBS affiliate KHOU.

Don’t tell them that. Their brains will explode.

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Yikes

H/T: Pajama Pundit

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PALM HARBOR, Fla. — A candidate for the Florida House of Representatives says “camps” should be built to house illegal immigrants in Florida until they can be deported.

Marg Baker, who is seeking the Republican nomination for House District 48, says officials could “collect enough illegal aliens until you have enough to ship them back.”

Baker added the housing would be “regular homes like a lot of poor people live in.”

She made the comments earlier this month at a 9-12 Project meeting, an organization founded by conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck.

Baker told The Associated Press, “We need to have camps because there are a lot of these people roaming among us.”

Video:

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Everybody knows America’s built on the rights of free expression, the rights to practice your faith, but come on.

Yea, come on. After all, it’s just a piece of paper.

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This really happened:

Traffic Markings, a company hired to paint lines and words on roadways, put the “COOL” back in “SCHOOL” last week.

The company transposed the letters H and C in enormous white letters, leaving the “SHCOOL” marking on the road for several days.

The company has since fixed the error. A spokesperson for Traffic Markings said the company “made a mistake.”

Gee, ya think ?

Photo Credit: AP

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Caught. Red Handed.

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