Just about a year ago, one of our more news-savvy members of Congress showed off his discerning assessment of news sources by posting a very important article on his Facebook page. The article, revealing the shocking news that Planned Parenthood had opened an "$8 Billion Abortionplex," was from one...

Yeah, I'm talking about everybody's favorite Christian nationalist history revisionist David Barton. It seems this paragon of lies and propaganda has been invited to speak at the Annual National Prayer Breakfast at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, to be held on Thursday, May 2. The topic of Mr. Barton's presentation is...

One year ago today, on April 10, 2012, a new book hit the shelves -- David Barton's The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson.

Although Barton has been writing "history" books for well over two decades, he was relatively unknown outside of evangelical Christian circles...

A few years back, Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA) and his Congressional Prayer Caucus made it one of their big issues to protect a "traditional" flag folding ceremony at military funerals. In this ceremony, each of the thirteen folds to fold the flag into a triangle is accompanied by a recitation...

So, David Barton, in an article on his WallBuilders website, has finally responded to the question of where he got the story he told on Glenn Beck's web-based TV show about a classroom full of gun-toting elementary school students saving their teacher from a gunman in the 1850s.

After a decade of debunking pseudo-historian David Barton's claims about American history, it's pretty hard for anything that comes out of his pie hole to surprise me, but even I was taken aback by the utter preposterousness of one of his latest claims -- that gun accidents just didn't happen...

Thanks to an astute commenter on my post from last week, "A Debunking of Pseudo-Historian David Barton's Book on the Second Amendment," we may now know the source of one of the tales that Barton has been telling to promote the idea that not just teachers -- but students...

Like many a good Christian, pseudo-historian David Barton likes guns and, of course, thinks that every person in America has an unlimited constitutional -- and biblical -- right to own and carry them.

Barton, not surprisingly, has been saying some pretty wild things on the subject recently, many of them...

Yeah, we could have guessed this was coming -- the persecuted Christians are using the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut as an opportunity to promote their agenda, claiming that this tragedy happened because God has been removed from public schools.

As reported by Media Matters, Mike Huckabee, answering the...

As the Senior Research Director at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), I've known for quite a while about the incidents of religious discrimination that led to West Point Cadet Blake Page's decision to resign from the Academy -- a decision that's getting quite a bit of attention since...

The holiday season is upon us, and one thing that means for us at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) is that we'll be getting reports of alleged improper promotions of religion. We'll check out these reports, and, as always, we'll find some cases where there are legitimate issues...

I hate hypocrites. And the first word that came to mind when I heard about David Petraeus's extramarital affair was "hypocrite."

One of the big issues we've been dealing with for several years at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) is the military's push to make our troops "spiritually...

First we had Congressman Todd Akin's insane theory that a woman can't get pregnant from a rape because their body somehow knows the difference and does something to not get pregnant. Soon after Akin made that utterly unscientific statement, people started talking about how this Bible-believing-batshitterist was, incredibly, on the...

If a drinking game had been made out of Republicans calling America "exceptional" at the RNC, the hospitals would have been full of people with alcohol poisoning this week. Unfortunately, and a bit embarrassingly, what these exceptional Americans don't seem to realize is that the term "American exceptionalism" actually comes...

On Thursday's episode of Glenn Beck's web-based GBTV show, Beck's guest was none other than pseudo-historian David Barton, who, as everybody knows by now, just got his bestselling book The Jefferson Lies pulled by Christian publisher Thomas Nelson. Barton was on Beck's show to refute the critics and save...

Last week, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) found out that all four branches of the military have now revoked permission from Holman Bible Publishers, a subsidiary of LifeWay, the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, to use the official U.S. armed forces branch emblems on their military...

A conference to be held in July in Tuam, County Galway, will feature a commemoration of the life and career of Governor Hugh L. Carey, whose grandparents emigrated from that part of Ireland to settle in Brooklyn in the 1880s.

The conference, called "The Irish American Link: People, Places and...

Last month, I wrote about Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 122, the unit whose commander, in his infinite wisdom, had decided to change the unit's nickname from the "Werewolves" to the "Crusaders," a change that came complete with a nice big crusader shield and cross being painted on its planes.

A couple weeks ago, many people were introduced to Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton when Jon Stewart had him on The Daily Show to interview him about his New York Times bestseller The Jefferson Lies. People were apparently quite curious about who this Barton guy was -- so much...

Anyone who saw Jon Stewart's interview of Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton on The Daily Show last night probably noticed something missing -- there was almost no discussion about what's actually in Barton's new book, The Jefferson Lies. Instead of talking about the book, Stewart opted for talking about...