Can't some things just be locked down, and accepted as absol

[invaziondrummer]

ute?!?!



http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/3466905

[chickenona]

I'll give them one point - ONE. Dad will be spinning in his urn over this one, but it's utterly true - FDR WAS a major architect of the Depression. As governor of the State of New York circa 1929, he was in charge of the Stock Exchange when it crashed. However, I think the twelve years he spent mopping up that mess more than made up for any role he had in actually making it, and he did it by - yes - SOCIALIST means. So by even bringing this up at all they're just taking one step forward and two steps back in pushing the "conservative" way of life.

[tin00can]

It would be cool if we could give Texas back to Mexico.

[alexharvey]

Downplaying Jefferson and playing up Phyllis Schlafly! These people never disappoint.

[MasterOfMeatPuppets]

Downplaying Jefferson and playing up Phyllis Schlafly! These people never disappoint.

Fuck Jefferson. What has he done for this country that a great American like Schlafly hasn't?

[vlad]

It would be cool if we could give Texas back to Mexico.

Hate to say, but I'm agreeing.

There's some really cool and nice Texans (like bane), but overall that state sucks politically. Even if they wanted to keep their crazy within their own borders...maybe that's okay.

But the textbooks wield enormous impact across the whole country.

[fatbass]

From the linked article:

downplaying Thomas Jefferson in one high school course,

This is pretty vague. What course? Not all, obviously. Are they removing the volumes of literature on Jefferson from school libraries?