Members of the Texas Board of Education think that the current prescribed school textbooks are too pro-Muslim and anti-Christian in their focus. A worthy recipient of our ‘USA: WTF?’ tag, we think.
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Why Texas beat California in GFC recovery
Texas has triumphed over the economic recession while California remains in a slump. Can liberalism be blamed? Not really. Here are four contributing factors.
Down the highway to the Mississippi Delta
Bob Gosford is on a roadtrip across the US, spotting the “fatality accident” markers, election signs and some local Louisiana and Alabama churches.
How Texas is — literally — rewriting history
The Texas Board of Education is rewriting the State’s history textbooks with a decidedly more conservative bent: replacing Thomas Jefferson with John Calvin, defending McCarthyism, including the Moral Majority and the NRA, while excluding ideas like freedom of religion.
Has Texas accidentally banned marriage?
A constitutional amendment in Texas designed to ban gay marriages may have inadvertently banned all marriages in the state, according to a lawyer and Democratic attorney general candidate.
Reporting from Death Row
Reporter Michael Graczyk may have the worst — or at least the most difficult — beat in the world: he covers capital punishment cases in Texas, and has so far watched over 300 people be put to death by the state.
The deep-fried wonderland that is the Texas State Fair
Set your arteries to “harden”: the AV Club samples chicken-fried bacon, fried peanut butter, jelly and banana sandwiches, deep-fried butter, and other culinary delights of the Texas State Fair
Texas Governor Rick Perry stalls investigation into an innocent man’s execution
In 2004, prison guards carried Todd Willingham into the death chamber, strapped him onto a gurney and injected him with sodium thiopental to paralyse him, pancuronium bromide to collapse his lungs, and potassium chloride to stop his heart. One problem: Willingham was probably innocent.
Texas governor puts secession on the table over tax
Texas Governor Rick Perry says that the state has the right to secede if Washington keeps taxing them at the same level and ramping up spending. But yes, it’s probably just an idle threat.
Hurricane Ike: a Crikey wrap
Hurricane Ike surely beats Gustav hands down.
