Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond. […]
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The Week in Quotes (July 19 – 25)
Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond. […]
The Logic of the Wall Street Journal, if You Can Call It That
The Wall Street Journal put up an editorial this week praising Gov. Greg Abbott for his appointment of Donna Bahorich to chair the Texas State Board of Education. TFN was just one voicing concern over Bahorich’s appointment, in part because she “rejected public education for her own family” and home-schooled her children. And here’s some […]
Far-right GOP Group Sets Hate Tour Dates Across Texas
Houston-based Conservative Republicans of Texas, run by the rabidly anti-gay Steven Hotze, announced today a list of events stretching from August into the fall that will target “adversaries” who support LGBT equality and abortion rights: “Christian, it’s time for us to stand up and fight to take back our government from the godless Secular Humanists, Pro-Abortionists and Political […]
Texas Group Worries International Baccalaureate Program Is Turning Students into Leftists
The folks over at Texas Eagle Forum, the state chapter of Phyllis Schlafly’s far-right organization, are worried that “leftist” ideology is infiltrating the state’s public schools through the widely respected International Baccalaureate (IB) program. Seriously. Writing in the group’s May newsletter (which is now available online), Texas Eagle Forum Vice President MerryLynn Gerstenschlager wrings her hands over students […]
