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 ›

As Drudge headlines: “He’s back!” Former U.S. President George W. Bush – or Bush 43 as those closest to him preferred to call him – has decided to copy Sarah Palin’s outreach model, by using FaceBook to interact with supporters and to inform them about his whereabouts. He created a fan page more than a year ago already, but used it only sparingly until today.| 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.

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The night grows quite late so I’ll spend more time on this tonight, but yesterday Obama gave a speech yesterday on educational reforms.  The most interesting ones, of course, is a support for merit pay and raising state caps on charter schools.  Support for both of these programs are brought from the campaign.  And both are generally not supported by Democrats.

Some aren’t buying his rhetoric.| MORE ›

File this one under the “I like the guy, just not some of his fans” section:

Well, it looks like the worship of his holiness Barack Obama has infected Longfellow Elementary in Howard County. See this email below, and get ready to be disgusted. Because no President, Republican or Democrat, should be glorified like this. [...]

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‘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 ›