By Ken Mercer

I returned to Austin last week to continue the Texas State Board of Education’s battle against the Far Left and their outrageous attempts to rewrite and revise our state’s Social Studies standards.

Together, you and I won huge victories in our fight for true and accurate U. S. History that promotes the

American free-enterprise system and honors our Founding Fathers, Veterans, and American traditions.
Here are just a few examples of the major victories achieved at the SBOE meeting.  Liberals sought to remove most of these from our U. S. History books.  Because of the majority votes by the SBOE, these are now secure in our state’s standards and will be placed in our Texas students’ textbooks:

• Veteran’s Day
• Independence Day
• Christmas and Rosh Hashanah
• The Liberty Bell
• Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley
• The Bataan Death March
• The U.S. Military advancement through the Pacific Islands
• The 1994 Contract with America
• The National Rifle Association
• Heroes of the American Revolution
• Neil Armstrong. Paul Revere, Christopher Columbus
• The Four Chaplains (World War II)
• American Exceptionalism
• American Patriotism
• The benefits of “American” citizenship rather than the liberals’ choice of “Global” citizenship

A few liberals went griping to their friends in the print media and implied that our Board refused to recognize the military.  What a preposterous allegation!

These are the same liberals who every step of the way fought against our positive portrayal of the military, the promotion of American patriotism, and the belief that the United States is an exceptional country.

And here is another outrage; my politically ambitious opponent in the Republican Primary joined with those liberal Democrats in their attempt to purposely mislead voters.

Again, throughout the debates, it was the liberals who severely understated the contributions of our military and fought against the promotion of American patriotism and exceptionalism.  The archived videotapes of the SBOE sessions document this.

The truth is that the conservatives won big; and the liberal opposition lost.  In Texas, we will not allow the Far Left to rewrite and revise our history standards.

When we have our next three-day SBOE meeting in March, the Board will laboriously and meticulously go through the standards for World History, Economics, and other Social Studies courses, making sure that they also reflect fact-based and unbiased content.

The final Social Studies standards will promote the American free-enterprise system and will honor our Founding Fathers, Veterans, and American traditions.

God bless Texas!

Ken Mercer

For those of you who missed it here’s Ken in November talking about the issue.