Education is an issue of critical importance to Republican primary voters.
Movement conservatives in Texas are upset by an Oct. 12 New York Times story on the school-board wars there. No, what has them hopping mad are the quotes from prominent allies of Gov. George W. Bush. Republican board chairman Jack Christie said that he could negotiate more easily with the PLO than with the board's conservatives, which may say more about him than them, but he's used such rhetoric before. In the carnival of life, they are in a very distant booth. But as the editors of the feisty Lone Star Report point out, the conservatives' record is quite defensible.