Published today, right here, right now, the sequel, by me:
What's Left of America
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Not much.
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Kay Granger pays glorious lip service to moderate stands when she's running for office, but votes as she is told by the Republican leadership, which is anything but moderate.
She runs on her memberships in moderate organizations, but does nothing to further their causes.
Her take on the First Amendment is straight from the Christian Coalition's press releases. Freedom of religion means being free to practice our majority religion on captive audiences at government-funded events, because the good manners implicit in restraint and the legal enforcement of respect for the religious freedom of others is really Oppression. The sound you hear is my eyes rolling.
I'm not surprised that World Ahead is publishing her; they publish only right-wing stuff, preferring paranoid content as it sells better to their target audience. I love their screeds against "liberal textbooks in our schools". The textbook industry is not known for liberalism. It's known for catering to its large markets, allowing their state boards of education to drive content, which explains the blandness and intellectual flabbiness of so many of them. Of the 100 largest public school districts in the country (as of the year 2000), 14 are in Texas and another 14 are in Florida, neither of them bastions of liberalism. Only 11 are in California, New York has 2, and Massachusetts has 1. (Details here, at the US Dept. of Education site.)
Off Topic » in reply to I'm Canadian. Should I bother to read this book?
Depends. It's a campaign document made to "balance" her meaningless affiliations with moderate Republican organizations.
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- "What's Right About America"
- Interesting.
- I'm Canadian. Should I bother to read this book? (n/t)
- Depends. It's a campaign document made to "balance" her meaningless affiliations with moderate Republican organizations.
- They used to burn bras.
- Oh, talk to me about idealism.
- I've read countless books of fiction based on...
- "Illigitibus Non Carborundum" read the placard......
- Penguins aren't people. They're reptiles.
- Oh, talk to me about idealism.
- They used to burn bras.
- Depends. It's a campaign document made to "balance" her meaningless affiliations with moderate Republican organizations.