Oh, Gimme a Break

The Texas Board of Education’s efforts to rewrite history books with a right-wing slant get crazier and crazier. Now the board’s “seven-member social conservative bloc” intends to bring up a resolution that “would warn publishers not to push a pro-Islamic, anti-Christian viewpoint in world history textbooks.” What world do these yahoos live in? And do they realize that they’re just feeding perceptions among Muslims that the United States is on a religious mission against Islam?