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Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Light the Match

Bonus Tracks
  • Rep. Michael Cloud reportedly(link is external) hosted a "conference for pastors and ministry leaders" in Texas earlier this week.
  • North Dakota state Rep. Brandon Pritchard declares(link is external) that he has no qualms about being labeled a book-burner: "Let me be the first person to light the match!"
  • The Family Research Council has named(link is external) anti-transgender activist Walt Heyer(link is external) as a senior fellow.
  • After lying(link is external) about the Declaration of Independence, Tim Barton had the gall to declare(link is external) that "the only way you can overcome a lie is by knowing the truth, and most of us don't know what the truth is and so we don't always even know we're being lied to."
  • Finally, Sen. Josh Hawley says(link is external) that President Joe Biden is "totally wrong about America's soul" because he doesn't understand that "this nation was founded on the principles of the Bible."
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