“Houston” on The Daily Caller

HOUSTON — Some conservative members of the Texas Board of Education assert that the history books used in this state have a pro-Islamic bias, and they are upset about it. (more)

Games are ending so late these days that public address announcers have taken on additional duties of mopping up, calling for taxis and issuing last beverage calls. (more)

Welcome to the the second installment of Fantasy Football Rankings for Week 2. Please feel free to contact us with any specific line-up questions or general thoughts on the rankings. (more)

Welcome to the Fantasy Football Rankings for Week 2. Please feel free to contact us with any specific line-up questions or general thoughts on the rankings. (more)

Without further ado, the “outsider” reveals his take on this week’s QB rankings. (more)

HOUSTON — Arson investigators have been called in to scrutinize a fire that destroyed the warehouse where all of Harris County’s voting machines were stored. The blaze left county officials scrambling to find enough equipment to hold an election in the nation’s third-most-populous county. (more)

Andy Hayes kicks off his weekly column for TheDC with Week 1 picks.  Without further ado … (more)

WASHINGTON — Tony Podesta is one of the best-connected rainmakers in the nation’s capital, with a web of personal contacts stretching back 42 years and six Democratic presidential candidates. His brother John was Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff and an adviser on President Barack Obama’s transition team. (more)

For the first time since May 21, Charlie Manuel wrote the Phillies’ eight regular players on his lineup card Tuesday. (more)

Looking down on downtown Kansas City gives a perspective on the area that one doesn’t always get, I’d have to imagine. As a newfound friend of mine said about her native city, sometimes one just doesn’t understand the beauty or uniqueness of a view until you get a chance to look at it a little removed and from a new viewpoint. (more)

WASHINGTON – Not until he saw the shoes did reality sink in. (more)

Roy Oswalt officially has accepted his proposed trade to the Philadelphia Phillies. (more)

We have heard from the White House this week that we are living in a “teachable moment” – on race, as far as they are concerned. However, this presidential term – and perhaps, even, the term before it – has been one collective “teachable moment” for our nation. (more)

Donald Trump will once again be presented on NBC this fall as the as an incredibly successful businessman and host of a so-called “reality” show, The Apprentice. (more)

The Phillies are talking about possible tandem trades where they would deal slugger Jayson Werth and acquire Astros ace Roy Oswalt, according to sources. And the Phils are said to be looking at scenarios where they can accomplish the two goals simultaneously. (more)

I have been watching all of the colorful (pun intended) sights and sounds from the past week, wondering when did I walk into the 1960s all of the sudden – or, worse still, some altered version of the 1960s where civil rights organizations get it wrong on race, wholesome Americans get represented by a world-class bigot, and black people turn a blind eye to the deteriorating racial conditions within America by proclaiming that “institutionalized racism is dead.” (more)

Apparently BP is no more adept at doctoring photos than it is at plugging deep-sea oil leaks. (more)

Hundreds of animals — birds, dogs, hamsters, gerbils, turkeys, chickens and geese — were rescued from a home in Highlands, Harris County, KPRC Local 2 reported Friday. (more)

“Hey, Frank. Can you believe it was only 18 months ago you guys announced the sale of the first piece of BP — that $10 billion Alaska plot they nicknamed Palin’s Peaks — to start paying for their Gulf clean up?  And today, they’re auctioning off their last field, that hell-hole in Nigeria.” (more)

ABOARD THE RESOLUTE, 40 miles off Louisiana — Workers on surface ships continued to flare gas and oil on Wednesday at the site of BP’s runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico after officials announced that a critical pressure test on the well would be postponed. (more)