The Texas Board of Education has finished its tortuous struggle at rewriting history. The board is an elected body that, among other things, selects the social studies curriculum for Texas schools.
The 15-member board is filled with seven die-hard social conservative Republicans, three moderate Republicans and five Democrats.
The social conservatives hold a firm control of the [...]

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Remember Lyndon LaRouche? He is the Reagan-era conspiracist who thought he was the world’s greatest economist. He never went away.
LaRouche sees Americans being pulled into economic despair by the same people who brought us Hitler and World War II – London financiers.
One of his followers, Kesha Rogers, won the Democratic nomination for the 22nd Congressional District [...]

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This has got to hurt Senator Kay Hutchinson’s chances in her primary challenge against Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry. To the beat of ABBA’s “Dancing Queen,” Hutchinson is plastered with charges of voting for non-Texas earmarks. Add that to still images of her with Senator John Kerry and Barack Obama, and it is probably not [...]

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The Texas State Board of Education is supposed to be setting the curriculum for that state’s schools. The problem is that the Board has not done its research like it demands of its students.
Author Bill Martin Jr. had his book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See? banned because he was confused with Professor [...]

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Why is the Houston Police Department making this a big secret? And, if the Houston PD is doing it, what other law enforcement bodies are looking into the use of drones for domestic spying. The drones come with high resolution cameras that can peer into homes and cars.
The Houston PD wants to put these planes in [...]

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On Tuesday, a Texas school district prohibited President Barack Obama from speaking to its students because they did not want the President to interrupt that day’s instruction. Yet the district arranged to bus fifth-graders to an event that former President George Bush is speaking at later this month for a Super Bowl-related event.
Let me get [...]

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I have no idea what County Judge Tom Head of Texas was trying to initiate when he plastered a printout and poster of nine criminals on a public bulletin board in the courthouse.
The printout includes a narration of a criminal getting up in the morning.
“Let’s see here. I need to shower, shave, eat some oatmeal [...]

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The Texas State Board of Education, which earlier fought over its science curriculum in a battle between intelligent design and evolution, now has its sights on the social sciences.
Keep in mind that the Board of Education has members who dig holes in evolutionary theory because of “Piltdown Man.” “Piltdown Man” was a hoax contrived in the [...]

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Rick Perry is gay. So goes the rumor about the Texas Governor. Thanks to a SEO program used by Senator Kay Hutchison’s campaign website, you can find that phrase there.
Perry is not the first Republican governor to have gay rumors circle about the internet. Florida Governor Charlie Crist has also been the victim of rumors. However, Perry has [...]

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It amazes me that the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, and now a Texas Congressman, John Culberson, can buy into fiction.
In this video, Culberson spouts the line that Texas can split into five states because it reserved that right during its annexation to the United States in 1846.
While it is true a clause does exist [...]

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