‘Family values’ congressman says he’ll resign over affair | Raw Story

Whoops.

Indiana Republican Rep. Mark Souder announced Tuesday he would resign from Congress, effective Friday, because he had an affair with a staffer. Souder said in a statement provided by his office that he has “sinned against God, my wife and my family by having a mutual relationship with a part-time member of my staff.”

via ‘Family values’ congressman says he’ll resign over affair | Raw Story.

Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns | World news | The Guardian

One more for the “Against” column of my “Should I have kids?” list.

“We are fighting for our children’s education and our nation’s future,” Dunbar said. “In Texas we have certain statutory obligations to promote patriotism and to promote the free enterprise system. There seems to have been a move away from a patriotic ideology. There seems to be a denial that this was a nation founded under God. We had to go back and make some corrections.”

So, no new text books will omit references to the slave trade and Thomas Jefferson’s arguments in favor of separation of Church and State.

Which makes sense because, after all, Jefferson was a slave-owner.

I’m creating a new category for this one and I’m giong to call it WTF??!?

via Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns | World news | The Guardian.

The CFPA: How a crusade to protect consumers lost its steam – washingtonpost.com

I’m shocked at how much big money is going into this. And these f*****s are throwing ads up on my site, too. Go ahead and click on one of the CFPA ads if you want to see some really intense astroturf (that’s fake grassroots) marketing.

At a time when the country is deeply divided over the proper role of government, what is Capitol Hill's appetite for a new, independent agency with broad power to police the financial industry and protect consumers from the risky lending practices that contributed so much to the financial crash of 2008?

It looks like they misled some people, and planted others. Altogether, it’s quite impressive. I like how they completely avoid mentioning what CFPA stands for (Consumer Financial Protection Agency).

via The CFPA: How a crusade to protect consumers lost its steam – washingtonpost.com.