On March 12, the Texas State Board of Education voted along party lines to revise the state's social studies curriculum. The new standards for history textbooks, which reflect the board's conservative bent, have elicited howls from the left for what many are calling historical revisionism. Among the amendments to the curriculum is a greater emphasis on our country's Judeo-Christian origins, the inclusion of the Venona papers to give context to Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist investigations, and more space devoted to the conservative revolution of the 80s and 90s. It's hard not to chuckle ...