The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) is honored to announce that Col. Lawrence “Larry” Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, has joined our Advisory Board. Statement from Col. Wilkerson: “Inside the Washington Beltway today, everyone thinks the budget is the primary issue for the military. It isn’t. “Far more serious …
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Mar 13 2013
Religion in the Military — It’s ‘Tradition’
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 of a meaning assigned to …
Feb 26 2013
Colbert Uses “Bendigo Barton” Story
“Bendigo Barton” clip at about 4:00 into the video: The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive
Feb 25 2013
Barton Admits Getting Gun-Toting Students Story from Louis L’Amour, but it’s OK Because L’Amour Said it Really Happened
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. As suspected, the story did come from …
Feb 13 2013
David Barton Claims That Gun Accidents Just Didn’t Happen in the Founding Era — Yeah, Right
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 in the founding era! Explaining …
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