texas issues

Words fail me.... http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5020241.html It was sponsored by State Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Tomball. Any relation to Tom Riddle of Harry Potter fame...?

The head of the appropriations committee in the Texas House has proposed HB-1287, which would require all 1,700 Texas high schools to offer two elective classes on the Bible as literature--with the sole textbook being the Holy Bible. You can hear a representative of the Texas Freedom Network...

http://www.hcnonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17270600&BRD=1574&PAG=461&dept_id=532215&rfi=6 See which book...Irony meeter tacking off the dial! Please...would someone mess with Texas?

A Caney Creek High School dad is fired up because the Conroe Independent School District uses the book "Fahrenheit 451" as classroom reading material. (bolding mine) I AGREE! I think every book that has "a bunch of very bad language in it" should be banned! Fugging Jeebus, I think these...

ETA: Reuters Link. There is one part that is bad news for Republicans: Anyone know the actual Republican/Democrat ratio of Texas registered voters? Does it match up with the Congressional ratio? The Republicans have argued that the redistricting was for the purpose of undoing prior Democrat...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/06/21/texas.execution.ap/index.html Damn you Texas prison officials! Damn you to hell!!! :mad:

Someone get Michael Newdow and the ACLU http://www.herald-zeitung.com/story.lasso?wcd=15080 New Braunfels trustees approve elective Bible class By Jessica Sanders The Herald-Zeitung Published January 17, 2006 A Bible course will be offered at New Braunfels High School next semester despite...

Texas House bill 913 LA Times It never occured to the bill's author that a committee appointed by Republicans which would have the power to stop any ethics investigation in the state might be used for partisan purposes. Christ on a bike - have these people no shame?

From msnbc :a2: Textbook debate in Texas over sex education Battle over birth-control references has national implications From the article Because everyone knows when you tell a teenager not to do something they all obey :re: Is the Texas school board trying to promote teen pregnancy...

President Pardons Former Texas Mayor President Bush pardoned a former mayor of Plano, Texas, who pleaded guilty to bank fraud in 1996, the Justice Department announced Monday. David B. McCall Jr., who is battling cancer, served six months in prison for his role in fraudulent loans at the Plano...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-abort22may22,1,3796805.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dheadlines Emphasis mine below. Now people have different feelings about abortion, but it appears these guys are using discredited reasearch to fit their agenda. I do not think a reflection period...