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Poetic License

Tom Nixon wrote 3 months ago: What if I re-wrote some of classic literature’s most famous passages? Glad you asked. It might … more →

Tags: Humor, famous literary quotes revised

Holocaust Revisionists and Deniers

elyakatz wrote 6 months ago: BS”D I had a visit from a Holocaust denier recently at my humble little blog. He posted a comm … more →

Tags: Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Father Patrick Dubois, Holocaust revisionism, antisemtism, Anne Frank

Reagan years: A contrarian's view9 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 6 months ago: California abandoned the memory of the guy who worked tirelessly to keep California in the Union dur … more →

Tags: History, accuracy, iraq, Cold War, Dissent, Politics, Presidents, Scandals, Rampant stupidity

Quote mining Harry Truman, on confusing people1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 10 months ago: I think it was Mark Twain who said a lie can get around the world twice before the truth has got its … more →

Tags: Bad Quotes, Good Quotes, History, accuracy, Harry Truman, Politics, Political Cartoons, Presidents, Famous Quotes

History Revisionism 1011 comment

jjcdaddy wrote 1 year ago: Recently Republicans/conservatives have been making rounds on how it was the Democrats that stopped … more →

Tags: Politics, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, deregulation, Executive Power Grab, Bush/Cheney Administration

Palin slashes Special Olympics Budget: Accurate statement still unfair?

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: This is how bad it is:  Even accurate statements about Gov. Sarah Palin are called unfair by McCain … more →

Tags: Hoaxes, ethics, accuracy, Voodoo history, Newspapers, Politics, Elections, Debunking, Uncomposted Organic Fertilizer

American history denialism

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: A new outbreak of David Barton has been noted. The Centers for Disease Control offer no help, but yo … more →

Tags: Hoaxes, Education, History, accuracy, Voodoo history, Bogus history, Politics, historic documents

Encore post: A religious bias against good education?1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: From August 8, 2007, the post that exposed the educationally-destructive, religiously-drenched mathe … more →

Tags: Economics, Science, Education, Curricula, History, accuracy, Education quality, Religion, Rampant stupidity

Call for help: Real story behind the Holocaust?10 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: Historians, help me out here. I’ve recently become aware that many creationists have swallowed … more →

Tags: Evolution, Science, Hoaxes, History, World War II, accuracy, Holocaust, Charles Darwin, Darwin

Dangers of creationism: Synapse shutdown10 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: One of the ultimate defenses of creationism, once you’ve demonstrated that there is no science … more →

Tags: intelligent design, Evolution, Science, Hoaxes, Education, ethics, accuracy, Voodoo history, Bogus history

Anniversary of the Ardeatine Massacre1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: Do your texts even mention the Ardeatine Massacre?  On March 24, 1944, just outside of Rome, German … more →

Tags: History, World War II, History museums, 1941-1945, War crimes, Ardeatine Massacre, Italy

Censoring Santayana's dangerous idea10 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana (The Life of Reason, … more →

Tags: Civil Rights, History, Books, Texas History, Rampant stupidity, Reason, History images, lessons of history, Higher Education

Bogus history: Engraved in stone

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: Quotes from patriots engraved on the walls greet visitors to the Texas State History Museum in Austi … more →

Tags: accuracy, Famous Quotes, 1836, Texas History, bogus quotes, José Antonio Navarro

Shame on you, Tony Campolo: Darwin was not racist18 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 1 year ago: Tony Campolo is an evangelical Christian, a sociology professor and preacher who for the past 15 yea … more →

Tags: accuracy, Biology, Charles Darwin, Darwin, Evolution, Hoaxes, Human Rights, junk science, racism

Another carnival of DDT6 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 2 years ago: One of the clues that someone is financing a public relations campaign for DDT and against care for … more →

Tags: Science, History, Environmental Protection, Public Health, Voodoo science, ddt, malaria, Politics, rachel carson

Sticking by the error1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 2 years ago: Neil Boortz has a bottomless well of venom. Boortz appears to be the chief source of the mean-spirit … more →

Tags: accuracy, Politics, Rampant stupidity, 'War on Terrorism', History, presidential campaign, radio commentators, 2008

Writing the history texts: What is history?1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 2 years ago: History textbook controversies abound, really. Just a list to pull some sources together: European h … more →

Tags: accuracy, Bogus history, Books, History, Politics, Textbook Selection, Education, Japan, Korea

History text accuracy: Okinawa mass suicides3 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 2 years ago: Controversy surrounds history textbooks all over the world. Texans may be a bit more sensitive to th … more →

Tags: Teaching, Textbook Selection, History, World War II, textbooks, Politics, Education, History Revision, Japanese History

Ardeatine Massacre: Bombers were soldiers, not terrorists4 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 2 years ago: Our Italian physicist friend, Dorigo, at A Quantum Diaries Survivor reports that an Italian court ru … more →

Tags: Hoaxes, TEKS, TAKS, History, World War II, accuracy, Voodoo history, Bogus history, War


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