Should a work group decide Hillary Clinton isn’t a school lesson?

History through this set of eyes

So a work group appointed by the Texas Department of Education has decided to erase Hillary Clinton from history? (Sept. 15, 6A, “Defenders of Alamo can be called heroes, board says”)

Wonder where the work group’s members got that idea? Wonder who decided on the makeup of this work group? They seem to believe that public school students will be better equipped to deal with the future if they do not know who was the first woman to be a viable candidate for the United States presidency.

Also, Helen Keller is to be consigned to the waste bin of irrelevancy?

Evidently, in this work group’s view, the only relevant activists are those on the extreme right.

Who’s really missing the point?

Reno Mayor Eric Hunter told the Star-Telegram that most people “have missed the point of what we are saying” in passing a resolution that Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s comments on NFL players’ protests during the national anthem are false. (Sept. 17, 1A, “Town passes anti-Beto resolution over anthem protest comments”)

How ironic. Does he realize that the exact same thing could be said about the way critics responded to those NFL players’ protests?

As the players have explained ad nauseam, it is not about the anthem, the flag or anything else related to our military or veterans. It is to call attention to a terrible issue in our country.

How sad that Reno can’t recognize that issue with its resolutions as well.

Not the kind of change I want

The Sept. 12 letter by Benny de la Vega (17A, “It goes way beyond yard signs”) says people are supporting Rep. Beto O’Rourke because they want change.

The type of change O’Rourke is peddling is the same as President Barack Obama’s — fundamental change.

Instead of individual sovereignty and self-reliance, these people seem to want to transform our system into a bigger and bigger government. Free stuff and relaxed borders lure votes, all the while leading us down the path to a nanny state telling us what to do and what to think.

That is not change for the better.

Time to consider the source

Thanks for the Star-Telegram editorial board’s position on Crystal Mason’s squandered second chance (actually a third chance) and to U.S. District Judge John McBryde. (Sept. 9, 4B, “Crystal Mason is headed back to prison because she squandered her second chance”)

Mason has been praised by her family and friends for raising her children and giving them a good education. Was the money for their education earned by hard work, or was it earned while she and her husband filed fraudulent tax returns?

Policy wouldn’t be ‘extreme’

Columnist Cynthia M. Allen recently noted that a friend considered Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s view on abortion “extreme.” (Aug. 31, 11A, “He’s a Democratic darling in Texas, but is O’Rourke’s support deeper than a yard sign?”)

O’Rourke’s help is not needed. Women already have the right to manage their own reproductive lives without big government’s intervention.

It’s called contraceptives and abstinence, not abortion.

What’s so extreme about that?