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Since I’m a Texas boy, I know you folks have been waiting for me to say something about the Texas state Board of Education voting on controversial new changes to school textbooks.  If you don’t know, the state school board has added language to history books saying that the country’s Founding Fathers were guided by Christian principles and including positive references to the Moral Majority, the National Rifle Association and the GOP’s Contract with America.

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Folks, I gotta say, it hurt my heart to see all those poor folk in my home state of Texas taking such a beating from that Hurricane Ike.  What was more distressing was that even after authorities told people, basically, “You will die if you do not evacuate,” some chose to stay behind.  And I gotta say, that’s a little stupid. (more…)