No parent really wants their kids to be smarter than them...

...and it would seem that the (once) great state of Texas has a solution to that little dilemma; "fix" the kid's textbooks. Of course the real losers are (in no particular order):

• The school children of Texas.
• The school children and families in other states that are stupid lucky enough to use Texan-books.
• The country.

Of course any countries that look to compete with the US in the "knowledge based economy" can only be jumping for joy.

The land of the free....

...except perhaps in Texas.

Your election day special

The police find IEDs in Texas. When will Faux News ask if Obama is to blame?

I fear I know where they are going with this

The Supreme Court of the great state of Texas has ruled that a church cannot be held liable for physical abuse that occurred during an exorcism at a Pentecostal church. The court felt that to allow the damages would entangle the court, in an unconstitutional way, with religion. I can hardly wait for the first First Amendment defence of torture enhanced interrogation as protect religious and/or symbolic speech!

Yes, everything is bigger in Texas...

...especially the bigotry.

A joy to watch

The energy market in the state of Texas is the most deregulated in the nation and given the omniscience and omnipotence of the market one would expect that Texas would be free of any difficulties in these troubled times as the price of oil soars. One couldn't be more wrong. Unfortunately some meddling commie-types at the Texas Public Utility Commission look set to prevent the market to work it majestic magic!

Why they hate us for our freedoms

There is no doubt that the Islamofacistbastards hate America and I can clearly demonstrate why using this simple but persuasive example from, (where else?), Texas. In the city of Dallas there is a rundown thoroughfare known as Industrial Boulevard. The city council would like to rename it as part of redevelopment plans so the city council sponsors a poll to find out what the people of Dallas would like to call it. The people of Dallas firmly and unequivocally say "César Chávez Boulevard".

The city council responds by saying "you didn't think that was a real poll, did you". It's just we have some friends in the polling business and we wanted to throw some money their way.

Didn't someone we all know and love used to be governor down there?

The (less and less) great state of Texas ranks 46th out of the 50 states in seeing to the health of its children and ranks last in insurance coverage for kids with 20% going uncovered. See? The market works!

Is our childrens learning?

To judge by the state of Texas where, thanks to the reign of Captain Codpiece as Governor, they've effectively had No Child Left Behind longer than the rest of the country, it looks as if Mostest Childs Been Lefted Behind with the learning levels of many, if not most, high school seniors are four or five years behind where they should be with many reading at an eighth grade level and/or struggling with simple arithmetic. One can only assume that these kids, who have been failed miserably by their community and their government, aren't going to be joining the "knowledge economy" anytime soon.

Everything is bigger in Texas!

Especially the sink holes. So how long to we have to wait, after the sink hole consumes the entire state, before they lose their electoral votes and Congressional delegation. (Also will this mean that neither Tom Delay nor Captain Codpiece never existed?)