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#VetThePress
Almost immediately after news broke about the sudden death of conservative provocateur Andrew Breitbart, I started receiving messages that he’d been “assassinated,” that this was all a part of some massive plot involving a cover-up of videos from President Obama’s college years. Normally, I wouldn’t pay any attention to this brand of absurd conspiracy, but I have a special connection to the story. As many of you know, I was the last person Breitbart publicly tweeted; less than an hour after he wrote me, he collapsed and died of a heart attack. And in the ensuing hours and days, my…
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Irony: Conservative Think Tank To Bobby Jindal: The Louisiana Science Education Act Is A “Devastating Flaw”
On May 26, 2011, Stafford Palmieri, who was then serving as the Education and Workforce Policy Advisor to Governor Bobby Jindal, testified in front of the Louisiana House Committee on Education in opposition to the repeal of the Louisiana Science Education Act (the LSEA). Ms. Palmieri, a 2008 graduate of Yale University, offered a notably convoluted and torturous defense of the LSEA, a law that allows public school science teachers the ability to bypass the teaching of science and supplement their curricula with their own non-scientific and religiously-based beliefs. “This bill is seeking to remove protections for teachers that give…
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Proudly, A Putz
Yesterday night, on my way home from school, like a dutiful son, I called my mother to check up on things. “Oh, by the way,” I said, “I’ve been exchanging tweets with Andrew Breitbart.” “Who is Andrew Breitbart?” “You remember him. He’s the guy who upstaged the Anthony Weiner press conference,” I said. “He broke that story, actually.” “Oh, of course. But why is he talking to you?” Good question. “Well,” I explained, “I wrote something on Twitter about his voice sounding like a love child between Owen Wilson and Dr. Evil, and he posted it on his Twitter. I…
CenLamar | Est. 2006
