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Quist: Liberals seek ‘worldwide education system’ to push ‘left-wing propaganda’

By Andy Birkey | 03.30.10 | 1:15 pm

GOP congressional candidate Allen Quist’s ideas about education are anything but conventional: a curriculum he wrote concludes that humans and dinosaurs likely co-existed, uses the Vikings to disprove global warming, and says God is the source of all law. But on Phyllis Schlafly’s radio show this weekend, Quist’s criticisms were reserved for liberals, who, he says, want to rewrite the Constitution “start to finish” and establish a “worldwide education system” that teaches, among other topics, “global warming nonsense.”

The L Word

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.19.09 | 2:22 pm


If words by Barack Obama’s chief of staff are any indicator, some of us can come out. As “liberals.” Ben Smith reports:

[At] concert hosted by the New Republic last night, Rahm Emanuel — amid a stream of

Michele Bachmann’s ‘Hardball’ blowup: Minnesotans knew it was only a matter of time

By Steve Perry | 10.18.08 | 1:17 pm

Following Rep. Michele Bachmann’s appearance with Chris Matthews yesterday, America is learning what many in Minnesota already knew, which is that putting Bachmann in front of a live microphone is like handing an excitable 15-year-old a bottle of gin and a loaded gun. The only question is when something unspeakable is going to happen.

Bachmann is no stranger to the hysterical off-the-cuff reaction.