Tea Party Patriots

Tea Party Pressuring Schools To Teach Constitution Using Controversial Right-Wing Group's Materials

Jon Terbush | May 25, 2011, 1:42PM

America's kids don't know jack about the Constitution, and according to a national Tea Party group, the only way to save them is to have school's teach the nation's founding document with materials provided by a controversial conservative group whose founder is one of Glenn Beck's favorite historians.

Tea Party Patriots, the Georgia-based organization that counts around 1,000 chapters nationwide, is asking its members to pressure schools to teach the Constitution during Constitution Week in September, as they are required to do by a 2004 law. And when schools do teach the founding document, the group is suggesting that they use materials provided by the National Center for Constitutional Studies, a group that claims the country and Constitution were, "established by the hand of God."

NCCS's founder, W. Cleon Skousen, became a tea party favorite in recent years when Glenn Beck touted him on his program as an exemplary constitutional scholar. But Skousen's past is marred by accusations that his work is far from accurate, and at times rife with racism.

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Topics: Constitution, Glenn Beck, Tea Parties, Tea Party, Tea Party Patriots, W. Cleon Skousen

Tea Parties

TN Tea Partiers Demand Schools Not Teach Too Much About 'Minority Experience'

David Taintor | January 14, 2011, 8:36AM

Tennessee's tea partiers are sick and tired of all the made-up criticism of our founding fathers -- and about schools spending too much time teaching about the "minority experience."

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Topics: Constitution, Tea Parties, Tennessee

Birthers

Birther Interrupts House Reading Of Constitution, Yells 'Help Us Jesus' (VIDEO)

Ryan J. Reilly | January 6, 2011, 12:08PM

An apparent member of the birther movement seated in the gallery of the House of Representatives on Thursday interrupted a reading of the Constitution. The woman yelled out "Except Obama, except Obama, help us Jesus!" as Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) read the "natural born citizen" clause of the Constitution.

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Topics: Birthers, Constitution, Frank Pallone, GOP, House of Representatives , Theresa Cao

Rick Green

Religious-Right Upstart Defeated In TX Supreme Court Runoff

Justin Elliott | April 14, 2010, 8:51AM

Rick Green, the former Texas legislator who had liberals worried about an extremist religious-right figure making it onto the state supreme court, was defeated in a GOP primary runoff yesterday.

Last week we told you about Green, his religious-right view of the Constitution, and his checkered ethical past (including the time he filmed an infomercial for a dietary supplement in his Capitol office).

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Topics: Christian, Constitution, Rick Green, Texas, Texas Supreme Court

Health Care Reform

Taitz Challenges Constitutionality Of Health Reform: It Blocks My Right To Practice Dentistry

Justin Elliott | March 24, 2010, 8:57AM

Joining a distinguished group of state attorneys general in challenging the constitutionality of the health reform legislation, now comes Orly Taitz, who in a new federal court filing argues that the bill violates her "right" to practice dentistry.

Along with her lawyerly pursuits, Taitz operates a dental office in Rancho Santa Margarita, California.

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Topics: Barack Obama, Constitution, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Orly Taitz

Health Care

GOP AGs Escalate Constitutional Battle Against Health Bill

Justin Elliott | December 31, 2009, 10:07AM

The group of Republican attorneys general threatening a constitutional challenge of the so-called "Cornhusker Kickback" in the Senate health bill yesterday wrote a letter to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi outlining their complaints. 13 AGs, several of whom are running for governor, signed the letter.

The letter has sparked a new round of media coverage, with little analysis of the constitutional arguments being cited. Under the provision in question, all of Nebraska's expanded Medicaid costs would be covered by the federal government, with other states splitting the cost.

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Topics: Constitution, Harry Reid, Health Care, Henry McMaster, Nancy Pelosi