I APPROVE THIS TEXAS SCHOOL BOOK STANDARD

TPM reports that the wingers on the Texas State Board of Education have approved including information about the Republican Noise Machine:

Complaining that the standards were "rife with leftist political periods and events: the populists, the progressives, the New Deal, and the Great Society," McLeroy offered this amendment:

"Describe the causes and key organizations and individuals of the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s, including Phyllis Schafly, the Contract with America, the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority, and the National Rifle Association."

It was approved. The standards do not include a progressive counterpart clause for the same period.

Liberals especially should know more about these groups and people.