According to a recent Rasmussen poll, people trust Republicans more than they trust Democrats on the health care issue. I think that means Fox news won, and the Texas School Board will write the history.

Stephen Colbert once joked that “reality has a well-known liberal bias.” Unfortunately, there’s a loophole: No one experiences anything but the most immediate reality directly. There’s always some kind of filter in between, whether it be word-of-mouth, newspaper, radio, or television. And whoever controls those filters, essentially controls the reality of everyone who uses them.

It’s official. The Texas School Board is close to overtaking George W. Bush as the single most embarrassing thing about the state. Even as a panel of educators laid out a vision Wednesday for national standards for public schools, the Texas school board was going in a different direction, holding hearings on changes to its [...]