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In his new edition of The Jefferson Lies, David Barton claimed that I recruited Jay Richards to find Christian historians who would engage in a campaign against him. That charge is still false. I denied the charge in a post here and in a review on The Jefferson Lies Amazon page. Today someone at Barton’s … Continue reading “David Barton and Wallbuilders Double Down on The Jefferson Lies Accusations”
In the 2012 edition of The Jefferson Lies, David Barton claimed to debunk the notion that the University of Virginia (founded by Jefferson) had no chaplains. He took up this as one of his major points as evidence that Jefferson established UVA as a “transdenominational” college. See below from the first edition of The Jefferson … Continue reading “David Barton Removes Claim About Chaplains at the University of Virginia in New Edition of The Jefferson Lies”
What You Need to Know About David Barton’s New Edition of The Jefferson Lies Contact Warren Throckmorton, [email protected] GROVE CITY, Penn., Jan. 13, 2016 /Christian Newswire/ — Yesterday was the official release date of the second edition of “The Jefferson Lies” by Ted Cruz’s Super PAC coordinator David Barton. Published by World Net Daily, the … Continue reading “What You Need to Know About David Barton's New Edition of The Jefferson Lies (Press Release)”
Even though the book has been available on Amazon for over two weeks, yesterday was the official release of the second edition of The Jefferson Lies by David Barton. To promote the book, Glenn Beck was in typical hyperbolic mode throughout the day on his network. I caught some of the radio segment and watched … Continue reading “Glenn Beck: "Liberal Bastards" Had David Barton's The Jefferson Lies Pulled from Shelves”
This post is inside baseball for those who are keeping up with the controversy surrounding David Barton’s history writing. One of David Barton’s frequent claims is that John Locke referred to the Bible 1500 times in his Two Treatise on Government. He said this to a Ukrainian audience and claimed it again in his new … Continue reading “David Barton, John Locke’s Two Treatises, and the Real Reason Thomas Nelson Pulled the Jefferson Lies”