Honestly, the first thing that comes to mind when I think “Department of Education” is No Child Left Behind, followed by a lot of trouble coming up with what else the DOE actually does in the government. Never in my life would I have thought that it contains its own set of federal agents that apparently have the power to raid people’s homes.

Yet, that’s what happened on Tuesday morning, as a California man woke to find feds from the DOE breaking down his door. And it gets uglier:

As Wright came downstairs in his boxer shorts, he said the officers barged through his front door. Wright said an officer grabbed him by the neck and led him outside on his front lawn.

“He had his knee on my back and I had no idea why they were there,” Wright said.

It turns out the agents had the wrong man.| MORE ›

Often times when presidents surround themselves with highly intelligent people, they end up with brilliant rationalizations for failure. – Dr. Thomas Sowell

Earlier today, Poligazette Editor in Chief Michael van der Galien had a terrific post where he commented on Dr. Thomas Sowell’s column “The Brainy Bunch“.

Galien:| MORE ›

This is not exactly surprising:

On the day before two British National Party (BNP) members take their seats in the European Parliament following last month’s election victory, a London-based think tank has published a report showing the party’s natural affinity with Nazi ideology.

Of course it has. How that can surprise anybody is beyond me.| MORE ›

If there is one thing you’d think people had learned by now from all the failed socialist and communist around the world, it is that fighting unemployment by simply creating more government jobs is not the way to go.

Everybody would also realize by now, you’d think, that the government has to encourage people to produce and buy, rather than to stay at home and do nothing.

Sadly, not so:| MORE ›

The Washington Post reports on a student teacher at Stanford who was targeted by political correctness police of unusual viciousness. Her thought crime? Nothing more than briefly dissenting from the political implications of the program’s mandatory “commitment to diversity”.| MORE ›

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that a strip search of a 13-year-old girl in a hunt for ibuprofen (brand name: Advil) was unconstitutional. The court relied on a 1985 precedent that requires searches of students take into account the severity of the offense and the age and sex of the student. While the application of such a vague standard is clearly difficult in some cases, it is not in a search for Advil.| MORE ›

‘Washington politics is a game and selfishness, out-sized egos and corruption are predictable. But over the last week I find myself in a fury.The cause of my upset is watching the key civil rights issue of this generation — improving big city public school education — get tossed overboard by political gamesmanship.| MORE ›