Should Revisionist Historians Be Allowed To Write Textbooks?
The Civil War, slavery and the Holocaust are all historic events, but from time to time some paranoid conspiracy theorists will deny they happened. We call this revisionist history and it’s generally...
View ArticleLetter: Bruner 'not fit' to influence children's education
As a Dallas County resident, I can't cast a vote for the open District 9 seat on the State Board of Education. But I'm also the father of two young boys so the outcome of this...
View ArticleTexan who called Obama a gay prostitute may soon be on board that controls...
Mary Lou Bruner stood before the Texas State Board of Education in 2010 to talk about textbooks. She was concerned, she said during her testimony, that the state's curriculum was being controlled by...
View ArticleTexas State Board Of Education Candidate Claims Obama Was A ‘Gay Prostitute’
Mary Lou Bruner, a leading candidate in the Texas State Board of Education race, claims Barack Obama worked as a gay prostitute to get money to buy drugs and feels Islam should be banned from the...
View ArticleTexas Education Board Candidate Calls Obama Gay Prostitute
A leading Republican candidate for the Texas Board of Education described President Obama as a gay prostitute and believes in a return to “traditional education.” Mary Lou Bruner came first in the...
View ArticleTexan seeking say on textbooks pushes boundary of far right
MINEOLA — On Super Tuesday, Dale Clark voted for a local Republican who claimed on social media that President Barack Obama had worked as a gay prostitute in his youth, that the United States should...
View ArticleTexan seeking a say on textbooks pushes the far right
MINEOLA, Texas — On Super Tuesday, Dale Clark voted for a local Republican who claimed on social media that President Barack Obama had worked as a gay prostitute in his youth, that the United States...
View ArticleEditorial: State Board of Education candidate would set back Texas
For years, the Texas State Board of Education was a certifiable mess. Two factions on the board — one moderate and the other extremist conservative — battled over minutiae the conservatives argued was...
View ArticleState Education Board goes to runoff to replace Ratliff
A former East Texas educator will face off with a Lufkin chiropractor and school board president in a May runoff to replace Republican Thomas Ratliff of Mount Pleasant on the State Board of Education....
View ArticleRace for state ed board heats up
Save for some flare-ups in the past few years over what to put in social studies textbooks — and how to handle an error in one of them — the State Board of Education has seen more turbulent days. The...
View ArticleControversial state education candidate heads to runoff
Mary Lou Bruner, a State Board of Education candidate from East Texas who has drawn attention for inflammatory comments about President Barack Obama, is headed to a runoff election in May. Bruner, who...
View ArticleTexas education board dreads possible return of culture war with anti-gay...
AUSTIN – Mary Lou Bruner has at least twice said President Barack Obama was a gay prostitute in his youth. She believes that there is scientific proof the Grand Canyon could not have been created by...
View ArticleWoman who called Obama a prostitute heads to Texas Board of Education runoff
Mary Lou Bruner, a State Board of Education candidate from East Texas who has drawn attention for inflammatory comments about President Barack Obama, is headed to a runoff election in May. Bruner, who...
View ArticleTexas Political Hopeful Claims Obama Was A 'Male Prostitute'
A Texas Republican who is running for a seat on her state's Board of Education has some very unusual thoughts on President Barack Obama. Mary Lou Bruner, who reportedly spent 36 years as a public...
View ArticleThe Extremist Likely Headed to Texas’ Influential School Board Thinks Pre-K...
You have to give credit to Mary Lou Bruner, the probable newest member of the Texas State Board of Education come November: Her far-right-fringe worldview is nothing if not coherent. In an election...
View ArticleIt’s scary that many still supported Bruner for the state education board
Most of us had never heard of retired teacher Mary Lou Bruner before her bizarre and nonsensical Facebook posts thrust a usually quiet State of Board of Education race into the national spotlight....
View ArticleAn Extremist Running for Texas’ Board of Education Won Big on Super Tuesday....
Do you want a person who believes that the current occupant of the Oval Office was once a prostitute to decide what’s in your children’s textbooks? How about a woman who thinks that climate change is a...
View ArticleAnti-Gay Birther Defeated in TX Election
An East Texas Tea Party activist who was expected to win a seat on its State Board of Education lost her primary runoff Tuesday after drawing significant media attention for her...
View ArticleThe Latest: Winner in Texas education runoff thanks rival
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Latest on a Texas education board race (all times local): 10:15 p.m. The winner of a Texas education board runoff says he thinks Republican voters in March simply weren't...
View ArticleWinner in Texas education runoff thanks rival
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Latest on a Texas education board race (all times local): 10:15 p.m. The winner of a Texas education board runoff says he thinks Republican voters in March simply weren't...
View ArticleWoman known for conspiracy posts loses Texas education race
A Texas education board candidate who claimed that President Barack Obama was a gay prostitute and believes dinosaurs walked the Earth with humans lost her primary runoff Tuesday night just two months...
View ArticleEx-teacher who says Noah's Ark killed dinosaurs loses board of education bid
Mary Lou Bruner loses runoff for seat in Texas that would have given her a say in what more than five million children learn in classrooms and read in textbooks...
View ArticleTexas Board Of Ed Candidate Who Said Obama Was Prostitute Loses Runoff
Even though Mary Lou Bruner went into Tuesday's runoff election in Texas as the frontrunner for a seat on the state board of education, she ultimately lost the election Tuesday night to Keven Ellis, a...
View ArticleTexas board of education vote is critical for conservatives – and US schools
Board has become a battleground as members seek to stamp their values on textbooks, and now an extreme conservative is on the brink of a key position...
View ArticleWatchdogs say Texas dodged 'train wreck' on education board
When Texas takes up always-contentions revisions of science and social studies coursework in 2017, a former schoolteacher who believes dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark and Democrats killed John F. Kennedy...
View ArticleTexas education board candidate known for conspiracy posts
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas education board candidate who claimed that President Barack Obama was a gay prostitute and believes dinosaurs walked the Earth with humans lost her primary runoff Tuesday...
View ArticleTexas Woman Who Called Obama A ‘Gay Prostitute’ Loses Seat On Influential...
Mary Lou Bruner, the Texas teacher who once referred to Barack Obama as a “gay prostitute,” has lost the race for a seat on the Texas Board of Education, NBC News is reporting. Ordinarily, a matter as...
View ArticleWhat Can Tank This Conspiracy Theory-Loving Texas Board Of Ed Candidate?
Mary Lou Bruner has suggested that President Obama was a prostitute and that humans roamed the earth with dinosaurs, all without hurting her status as the frontrunner for an open seat on the Texas...
View ArticleEllis has early lead on Bruner for education board
Early returns show Mary Lou Bruner, a State Board of Education candidate from East Texas who has drawn national attention for calling President Barack Obama a onetime gay prostitute, trailing in her...
View ArticleEducation board hopeful who said Obama was a gay prostitute in spotlight for...
AUSTIN — Voters left 22 Texas elections undecided in the March 1 primary, resulting in nearly two dozen runoffs that voters will decide Tuesday.Related Early voting starts today for primary runoffs:...
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