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By Steve Hall

Robert Perkinson provides news analysis in the post, "Texas Justice, American Injustice," at Truthout.  Here's the beginning of this post.When members of Texas' Board of Education recently voted to eliminate "justice" from the list of terms schoolchildren have to master - in addition to elevating Rush Limbaugh to the pantheon of historic luminaries - they unleashed another salvo in the country's ceaseless culture wars. Yet they also, perhaps inadvertently, brought the curriculum in line with the state's inequitable social order. With its laissez-faire corporate climate and anemic human services (the state leads the nation simultaneously in carbon emissions and children without health insurance), Texas may be "wide open for business," but it has always had an uneasy relationship with Lady Justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 12, 2010 (boomark / email).