Understanding the fake historian behind America’s religious right - Vox

Sam Brownback, new ambassador for religious freedom, is an admirer of controversial “scholar” David Barton.....
https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/1/25/16919362/understanding-the-fake-historian-behind-americas-religious-right

Outgoing Tea Party Gov. decries underfunded hospitals and prisons that he spent 7 years running into the ground -- Raw Story

Outgoing Republican Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, whose massive tax cuts starved the state of sufficient revenue throughout much of his term, is decrying the condition of several key facilities in the state this week. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/outgoing-tea-party-gov-decries-underfunded-hospitals-prisons-spent-7-years-running-ground/

Trump liberates Kansas from the governor who wrecked its economy -- ThinkProgress.org

Kansas won't have Sam Brownback to kick around anymore. The second-term Republican governor who wrecked his state's economy and ruined the education system to give rich Kansans a tax break will quit his job to accept a new posting as Ambassador-At-Large for International Religious Freedom. ...
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-saves-sam-brownback-e8a4c2218bdb

We Worship God, Says The Confused President -- (Hemant Mehta, The Friendly Atheist Ep. 174)

We discussed:
— Donald Trump said “We Worship God.” All of us. (02:21)
— Trump’s ban on transgender troops. (06:21)
— The Colorado atheist who gave his invocation slot to a Satanist. (12:04)
— Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback will become a “Religious Freedom” ambassador… for some reason. (17:45)
— The Boy Scouts’ pathetic apology for Trump’s speech. (26:51)
— Ark Encounter will finally pay the Williamstown safety fee. (36:34)
— The anti-abortion crowd’s interest in reverse abortions. (40:04)
— Don’t get suckered in by a Catholic church’s seemingly pro-LGBT comments. (47:00)
— England’s NHS will ban prescriptions for homeopathic remedies. (54:34)
— A Pakistani village’s “reverse” rape. (1:03:30)
Interview:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/07/28/podcast-ep-174-we-worship-god-says-the-confused-president/

Trump's tax plan will do for America what Sam Brownback did for Kansas—'fantastic' destruction

Politicians on both sides of the aisle have long maintained that the 50 states represents the laboratories of democracy. Republicans in particular have praised the idea of giving more flexibility to states, arguing that what’s suitable for California may not be the best solution for Kansas—though exactly how education and health care are supposed to be affected by lines on a map is never made quite clear. With Republicans dominating not just the government in Washington, D. C., but state governments in many areas of the nation, they’ve been given a perfect chance to draft the perfect conservative experiment—low taxes, limited government, socially suffocating.

Only the results from all those Republican experiments … isn’t what they promised....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1677443

The Republican Blowback Against Sam Brownback in Kansas (The Atlantic)

The state legislature nearly reversed Governor Sam Brownback's signature policy after a voter rebellion. His economic legacy, one GOP lawmaker says, "is going down in flames." ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/the-republican-blowback-against-sam-brownback-kansas/517641/