On the bright side, he’ll have plenty of unemployed Dems to keep him company… (The Hill) – Supporting President Obama’s signature stimulus plan might cost Rep. Chet Edwards (D-Texas) the election, the veteran lawmaker said Monday. Edwards, who’s served in the House since being elected in 1990, said he stood by his vote to approve the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in early 2009. “It may cost me votes. It may cost me an election,” Edwards told the editorial board of the Dallas Morning News . “But it was the right thing to do.” Republicans have long attacked the stimulus bill as a waste of taxpayer money that failed to create jobs in any appreciable way, especially compared to White House estimates of the package’s effects when the administration was trying to sell the bill. Democrats, for their part, argue the economy would be in much worse shape and would have shed more jobs if not for the stimulus bill and other measures undertaken by the Democratic-held Congress to boost the economy. Edwards is facing a tough reelection challenger from Republican candidate Bill Flores — a race in which Edwards described himself now as an “underdog.”
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If the whitewashed version of Islamic history and anti-Christian views are changed in Texas school books it will be felt across much of America, because they’re such a huge buyer of books publishers end up selling the Texas editions to smaller states… AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 15 (UPI) — A resolution before the Texas State Board of Education says some world history textbooks push a pro-Muslim, anti-Christian view. The board plans to vote on the issue next week, The Dallas Morning News reported. Texas recently went through a bruising debate about the teaching of U.S. history. While social conservatives on the board won most of what they wanted, two of them lost in the Republican primary and will be off the board next year, the newspaper said. Randy Rives, an Odessa businessman who ran unsuccessfully for the board in the primary, proposed the resolution. “Diverse reviewers have repeatedly documented gross pro-Islamic, anti-Christian distortions in social studies texts,” the draft resolution says. The resolution also charges some texts present “sanitized definitions of ‘jihad’ that exclude religious intolerance or military aggression.” It says textbooks devote more space to Islam and emphasize Christian violence against Muslims during the Crusades while downplaying or omitting similar actions by Muslims, the newspaper said. H/T: designczar
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Texas School Board Set to Take on Pro-Islam, Anti-Christian Bias in History Textbooks…
Let me summarize this Dallas Morning News article about Lisa Blue: if your husband (Fred Baron) is a millionaire and multimillion-dollar Democratic Party fundraiser – John Edwards’ bagman , in fact – and also dying of bone marrow cancer, then you can not only get away with smuggling into the country experimental cancer medicine of dubious efficacy; you can get the Speaker of the House herself to lean on the FDA to let your husband get the medication in question – despite the fact that it didn’t actually work. And then you get to brag about it, while piously talking about how awful it is that regular families don’t have your ability to violate federal regulations on access to experimental and untested medicines*. Which is irrelevant, of course: because it’s not going to get any easier for people to get that access in a system where private health insurance is eliminated. In fact, as the Avastin controversy demonstrates, access to experimental or possibly-marginal medicines will decrease under an universal health care regime. Not that it matters to people like Lisa Blue, Fred Baron, and Nancy Pelosi – after all, they live in the other one of the Two Americas that Edwards liked to so pontificate about. The one where you can publicly call in a marker like this to the Speaker of the House and not be shunned afterward. It takes a lot to erode my instinctive sympathy for both anybody dying of bone marrow cancer, and their families. Being lectured on the need for universal health care coverage by a person who successfully evaded an intolerable medical regulatory regime that her own husband helped spawn will do it every time, though. Moe Lane *Regulations, by the way, that are in place partially because of unscrupulous tort lawyers like… Fred Baron. You see, drug companies are terrified of lawsuits, because they’ve been taught to be by a generation of lawyers. And those lawyers get away with it because many of them are heavy contributors to the Democratic party, like… Fred Baron. Crossposted to RedState .
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