I believe in the free speech that liberals used to believe in, the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in, and the personal freedom that America used to believe in.
When we last left the Texas Board of Education they were revising American history textbooks, now they’ve decided that textbooks themselves are anti-Christian:
(CBS/AP) Texas’ State Board of Education – following a long history of throwing itself into “culture war” issues – is set to vote Friday on a resolution calling on textbook publishers to limit [...]
Over at Outside The Beltway, I take a look at the case of two Massachusetts high school teachers disciplined for an anti-war protest at a school assembly.
The Texas Board of Education is at it again:
The Texas state school board gave final approval Friday to controversial social studies standards that minimize the separation of church and state and say that America is not a democracy but a “constitutional republic.”
The changes, which passed in a series of 9 to 5 votes, could have [...]
A few months ago, textbook changes by the Texas Board of Education made national news for the extent that they appeared to be promoting a very conservative view of American history.
Now, it appears that the forces behind those changes have a whole new list of stuff they want to change:
Don McLeroy, a Republican board member [...]
That was the issue before the Supreme Court this morning:
The high court was to hear arguments Monday from the Christian Legal Society at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law. The Christian group said its constitutional freedoms of speech, religion and association were violated when it was denied recognition as a student group [...]
A scholar at the Reformed Theological Seminary was forced out of the school after making a statement accepting the scientific basis for evolution:
When it comes to incriminating videos these days, the one of Bruce K. Waltke might seem pretty tame. It shows the noted evangelical scholar of the Old Testament talking about scholarship, faith and [...]
James Joyner makes a pretty convincing case for the argument that they are not:
[T]he fact of the matter is that these people and their loved ones are tragic victims of senseless violence, no more heroic than others who are randomly killed.
This isn’t a criticism of Obama per se. General George Casey did the same [...]
Back in September, I wrote about what seemed like a rather depressing survey contending that, among other things, only 11% of surveyed Oklahoma high school students knew who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Well, it turns out that may not have been all that accurate:
Oklahoma State Representative Ed] Cannaday therefore had little difficulty setting up an [...]
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