Dear Editor, More Texans need to home school their kids. Public education has become obsolete, and we can thank Gov. Perry, Texas legislators, and the School Board of Education because they have killed it. Voters deserve part of the "thanks" because they have permitted it. Homeowners deserve "thanks" because they have paid the most for it. Our children suffer because of it.
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The Facts Were ImmaterialThe 'counterintelligence' operations of Hoover's FBI included harassment, vilification, violence – and fake 'underground' newspapers in Bloomington, D.C., and Austin
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