Dunbar: Because facts and education don't mix

As if the State Board of Education wasn’t looking ragged enough for having an anti-evolution chair, and then packing its Science Standards Review Panel (which will hep set the next science curriculum) with intelligent design advocates. Now board member Cynthia Noland Dunbar has decided to accuse Sen. Barack Obama of secretly planning to inflict martial law.

In her column for fundamentalist loony-toon website Christian Worldview Network entitled Martial Law Under an Obama Administration, the self-confessed “conservative Republican” repeats the discredited claim that Obama isn’t actually a U.S. citizen (sigh. Read his birth certificate here) and that, if he wins the election, he can be removed from office because he never really was eligible in the first place. From this springboard of baseless nonsense, she leaps to the idea that the end result of an Obama presidency will be Obama using the excuse of a terrorist attack to declare martial law.

Dunbar holds her board seat until 2010. Anyone else surprised that Texas education is in the state it’s in?

This article appears in John McCain.

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