Conservative provocateur Andrew Breitbart did it again, quite spectacularly this time. His first memorable foray into the slime was his destruction of ACORN with misleading videos edited to make it look as though the umbrella organization of community organizations, which primarily helped the poor and disadvantaged, was corrupt. His attempt at smearing civil rights hero [...]

Good old Texas, where I grew up. You can always count on the Lone Star State to do things with an in-your-face swagger. This time it’s the audacious rewriting of history by conservatives on the Board of Education, which sets the curriculum for the state’s schools.Texas schools buy so many textbooks that the book publishers [...]