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Published: 12/27/10

Opinion: Will Durst's 2010 Xmas Wish List

By Will Durst - AOL News

Wishing you all a Very Happy Merry. And no, I'm not falling into that trap. You go out and dance to the beat of whichever winter festival you want to celebrate. Christmas. Hanukkah, Kwanza, Saturnalia, Solstice, noon Tuesday, 420, a December date equal to the square root of the number 625. Whatever. And good on ya. As we say in politically correct San Francisco, "May the corpulent bearded one in the scarlet suit smile upon your chosen shrubbery." Now inevitably some people are going to find their stockings aren't quite stuffed with the egregious booty they were expecting or, most important, ...

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Published: 09/24/10

Texas Board of Ed Votes to Correct 'Pro-Islam' Textbooks

By Steven Hoffer - AOL News

(Sept. 24) -- The Texas State Board of Education approved a resolution today that requires publishers to correct a "pro-Islamic/anti-Christian bias" in future world history textbooks. The resolution, which narrowly passed 7-6, cites instances of an alleged emphasis on unfavorable events in Christian history as told in school textbooks, while claiming that the same textbooks gloss over similar events in Islamic history. "What we're trying to do is prohibit and send a clear message to the publishers that [the bias] should not happen in the future," board member Terri Leo said. The Lone Star ...

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Published: 05/25/10

Texas Textbooks Massacre: Not So Scary After All

By Joe Keohane - AOL News

(May 25) -- Late last week, the Texas Board of Education, in a party line vote, passed a series of controversial changes to the state's social studies standards. Among them: Joseph McCarthy was right, Thomas Jefferson was wrong, etc. Board members had also attempted to rechristen the slave trade the "Atlantic triangular trade," perhaps in the hopes of casting that tragedy in geometric, rather than human, terms to ease those unpleasant pangs of culpability. That one didn't make the cut. Texas' move outraged educators and historians all over the country, as well as some politicians. ...

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Published: 03/15/10

Excerpts From the New Texas History Textbooks

By Walter Shapiro - Politics Daily

The Texas Board of Education voted last Friday to add conservative values and historical interpretations to the statewide social studies curriculum. As Don McLeroy, a dentist who leads the dominant Christian conservative faction on the state board, complained to The New York Times, "Textbooks are mostly the product of the liberal establishment." Not anymore in Texas, unless Friday's preliminary vote is overturned. The revised curriculum (which plays up the Christian faith of the Founding Fathers, the merits of Joe McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade and the enduring historical importance of ...

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