Just a few days agoI wrote about the memo circulating about amnesty for illegal immigrants without legislation but let’s not stop there, the Obama administration certainly isn’t. I covered the topic of education and loss of state’s rights in June. The murky plot of Obama education end run is growing behind the scenes.

This past Thursday, Obama delivered a major speech on education in an effort to garner support for his Race to the Top grant program and his push for national education standards and tests.

Obama’s remarks came after a recent speech delivered by Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Tuesday at the National Press Club, during which Duncan attempted to paint the Administration’s policies as part of a “quiet revolution.”

Obama and his ilk work behind the scenes on projects without the legislative process of open debate and allowing the people to see what is being developed and having a chance to contact their representatives to voice opinions. This is that “quiet” in “revolution” to implement standards that don’t allow individual states to manage their own educational process as is currently done. Simply put, it’s more expansion of the strangle hold by the Federal government.

Remember that big stimulus package? Have you wondered where all of it went? One place is the US Department of Education that had its funding doubled. DOE is using that windfall of funding and power to stage a significant overhaul of local schools; dangling grant money before cash-strapped states on the condition they adopt key pieces of the Obama education agenda. This is all happening without public consideration so parents will have to either go to Washington to demand some answers and accountability. Good luck with that!

The big carrot in all of this is a $14.5 billion “bribe” to entice cash strapped states to accept money for participating in Race to the Top. Want the money? Participate in the Obama program and receive funds. Don’t play with Obama receive no funds and wait for the hammer to fall.

Heritage Foundation concludes:

The federal government’s ever-expanding role in education, and now the Obama Administration’s push for national standards and tests, threatens the long-established right of parents to direct their children’s education and confuses a proper understanding of federalism. States model federalism for children by setting standards, tests, and curriculum. But that important lesson in self-government will be another unintended casualty of this standards overhaul now that the federal government is overreaching to set the educational terms for local schools—contrary to the spirit of the Constitution and the letter of federal law, which expressly prohibits federal involvement in standards, tests, and curriculum.

Thomas “Tip” O’Neill—a longtime Speaker of the House in the U.S. Congress—once declared, “All politics is local.” Not with Obama where all politics is in the hands of a very few bureaucrats, behind closed doors, using taxpayer dollars to fund their union pal to upend state’s rights and parent’s rights.

Obama wishes to change the entire US educational system without involving individual representatives in Congress, no vote, no debate. Autonomy of the states is being slowly shrunk in direct proportion to the Federal government’s steady growth.

In essence, the Constitutional Republic is being downsized while tyranny is slowly being supersized. Indeed!

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Barack Hussein Obama and his ilk are all about empowerment as long as it’s their own. Obama and his ilk are all about choice if it’s the right to choose between life and murder.

When it comes down to educating your child they are against parents deciding what is best for their children and allowing the states of the United States manage their school systems on a local level. It’s all about standards, control, power and educating children the Obama way which may not be the way any child should received an education or brainwashing.

The Obama is using the carrot and stick approach, like everything else when they want to take over an entity such as General Motors or “shaking down” BP, states are being pushed to “voluntarily” adopt national education standards and tests. The incentive is money.

Race to the Top is a competitive grant fund used as an incentive for states to adopt standards under development by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. To put it plainly this initiative has nothing to do with child or parent empowerment.

Texas and Alaska were first to opt-out of Race to the Top and now Minnesota and Virginia are getting cold feet after joining 48 states in agreeing to accept federal money to adopt the national standards.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry stated that the Obama administration’s requirement that states adopt national standards “is an effort to undermine states’ authority to determine how their students are educated, and is clearly aimed at circumventing laws prohibiting national standards.”

Obama has ridiculed No Child Left Behind mostly because this was an initiative of George W. Bush but now wishes to reauthorize the program with the US Education Department releasing a “blueprint” for reauthorizing that program. The blueprint language indicates the administration will try to tie $14.5 billion in money for low-income school districts to a state’s adoption of national standards. This is more about sending good money chasing bad and propping up failed schools with failing teachers and unions.

Once again the federal government is proclaiming they know better and wish to take over another facet of people lives, of states’ rights and provide themselves with more control with no positive impact on student learning via national standards as the following demonstrates:

Misconception #1: National standards are necessary so parents can understand how their children compare with other children across the country.  The information parents need is already available. State tests let parents know how well their children have mastered the curriculum. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, currently administered to samples of students in each state, provides an external audit of state tests. If transparency about that data has been insufficient, it does not merit a national standards and testing regime. It calls for better transparency and accountability to parents.

Misconception #2: National standards would make American students more competitive with their international peers. While it’s true that many of the countries that outperform the United States on international tests have national standards, so do most of the countries that score lower than the United States. Even when it comes to state standards, the relationship between academic performance and the quality of those standards is inconsistent.

Misconception #3: National standards are necessary because state standards vary in quality. While it’s true that some state standards are better than others, the same pressures that drive down state standards would likely plague national standards. For that reason, national standards will tend to decline toward the average among states, undercutting states with higher standards, such as Massachusetts. Ultimately, the goal of uniformity would result in the standardization of mediocrity.

One large goal of Obama is to remove parents from the equation of family, to indoctrinate children within the school systems with command and control over the curriculum. When Washington controls education nationally parents will have no local school board to petition or lobby, they will be left with the bureaucrats in the beltway to have a voice, a very distant one that won’t be heard.

Education begins in the home and Obama and his Progressive friends wish to remove parents for having a say in their child’s education and remove the ability for them to examine performance standards locally by taking away any transparency, something Obama promised along with his Marxist speaker in the House.

The “race to the top” is only a catch phrase for Obama’s race to complete and total power. This time he is using children as an end to his sick ideology.

Obama’s “Race to the Top” is a planned “Race to the Bottom” for parents and educating their children. Indeed!

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Addressing an adoring crowd who paid $30,000 to attend a fundraiser went into his stand up comedy routine to the delight of many.

Since today happens to be tax day (laughter) I should just point out that one-third of the Recovery Act went to tax cuts, tax cuts that strengthened the cornerstone of the American dream. I’ve been a little amused over the last couple of days where people have been having these rallies (laughter) about taxes, taxes. You would think they would be saying thank you. That’s what you’d think. (cheers and applause)

Mr. Obama, I want to thank you for seizing General Motors and Chrysler.

I want to thank you for appointing a pervert as our safe schools czar.

I would like to thank you, Mr. Obama, for the generational theft that you have committed with all of this borrowing and spending. You have spent the wealth of two to three, maybe four generations in the future, before they’re even born.

I want to thank you, Mr. Obama, for insulting and endangering Israel.

I want to thank you, Mr. Obama, for driving up the unemployment rate to near double digits for years to come.

I want to thank you, Mr. Obama, for telling everybody that it’s going to be double digits as the new norm.

I want to thank you, Mr. Obama, for exploding the annual deficit to the level where it can never be repaid.

I’d like to thank you, Mr. Obama, for targeting and destroying private health insurance companies.

I want to thank you, Mr. Obama, for pushing for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to stand trial in New York City and receive full constitutional rights at a cost of $200 million per year.

I want to thank you, Mr. Obama  for helping to destroy the housing market.

Mr. Obama, I would love to thank you, Mr. Obama, for your arrogance, because arrogance is part and parcel of an authoritarian leader of a regime.

I would like to also thank you, Mr. Obama, for your divisiveness.

I would like to thank you, Mr. Obama, for ignoring the public union pension time bombs waiting to explode out there.

I would like to thank you, Mr. Obama, for mocking and disrespecting the American people.

I’d like to thank you, Mr. Obama,  for your never-ending support of the New Black Panthers and for ACORN.

I’d like to thank you, Mr. Obama, for embracing our enemies and snubbing our allies.

Most of all, Mr. Obama, thank you for arousing the sleeping silent majority because we have been asleep too long. November is coming, Mr. Obama. That is when we will really thank you. Indeed!

Ronald Reagan is an American icon, who made the case for free-market economics and peace through strength, and was once mocked and scorned by his enemies.

An opponent to Mr. Reagan in the 1966 Gubernatorial race, Governor Edmund “Pat” Brown said, “He’s an actor.” Brown continued, “And you know who shot Lincoln, don’t you?”

Ronald Reagan went on to become Governor of California winning by nearly one-million votes. This was the beginning of Ronald Reagan setting a personal trend for winning landslide electoral victories.

The irrational reaction towards Mr. Reagan is a continual mantra for the Left, they attack, attack and attack some more against the opposition to their ideology. Whittaker Chambers once called this attitude “the fierce vindictiveness” of the liberal temperament.

Here is a little history about Ronald Reagan:

In late 1940s Reagan, a self-described “near hopeless hemophilic” of a bleeding-heart liberal was in the beginning of his tenure as president of the Screen Actors Guild. Mr. Reagan found himself in an intense battle with Communists who were attempting to take over Hollywood.

One day while walking to an SAG meeting with fellow actor and friend Edward Arnold two fellow actors were fast approaching them and the always friendly and outgoing Reagan offered a smile.

My smile was already forming and I had just started to greet them when one of the two thrust his face close to mine, his eyes burning with hatred. “Fascist!” he hissed, literally spitting the word at me.

Recalling this incident years later Mr. Reagan said “Communists hate.” He said he was also threatened that acid would be thrown in his face.

“Light was beginning to dawn in my head. I was seeing the seamy side of liberalism.”

Great Conservative William F. Buckley would later describe such moments:

“Cross a liberal on duty, and he becomes a man of hurtling irrationality.”

Today we see this Leftist hate against Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, and average citizens attending Tea Party events across the nation. Recently, before Ann Coulter could even arrive in Canada for a speaking engagement, the rabid Left protested violently incited by a University of Ottawa vice president.

Terms such as socialism, social justice, progressivism, liberalism are code words for the left to self-describe themselves what F.A. Hayek termed as a secular religion, a status symbol that marks the “good” person.

Nearly spitting in Ronald Reagan’s face and threatening him with acid in his face was part of the left and that “good person.” Mr. Reagan was considered “bad” and a “fascist.” Mr. Reagan faced the same vitriol that today’s Conservatives have faced over the recent battle over the Left’s version of health care reform. Doubt the Left, question the Left, oppose the Left and look out.

Shortly after the incident Messrs. Reagan and Arnold experienced on the streets of Hollywood, Reagan decided he needed a vacation and chose to go to Lake Arrowhead in California’s San Bernardino mountains.

“There I could laze around and take time to figure things out.”

Mr. Reagan spent two months carefully and patiently assembling the model of a real-life ocean liner piece by piece. The name of the ship he was building was  The America.

This future president recalled of the decision he reached while building the America one painstaking step at a time:

The results of my weeks of freedom crystallized a determination in my mind. I would work with the tools I had: my thoughts, my speaking abilities, my reputation as an actor. I would try to bring about the regeneration of the world.

Ronald Reagan was transforming himself from a self-described “bleeding heart liberal” and creating a future Conservative victory over the leftist, Communist element he personally faced where he worked.

We have moved from the Age of Reagan into the dark abyss of the Age of Obama. As company CEOs emerge and complain of the fallout created from Obamacare they are called on the Congressional carpet to “explain” themselves for following the law and telling their shareholders of the financial runoff from the liberal health care reform.

Reagan himself used in his 1964 speech A Time for Choosing, the difference between Reaganomics and what would be termed “Obamanomics” andwhether the American people move towards “the maximum of individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.”

The real ship America met it’s end as it encountered a violent storm when being towed in the Atlantic after years of service. Its towlines snapped and the SS America or now called American Star ran aground near the Canary Islands and was declared a total loss.

Ronald Reagan wrote his own final letter to the American people announcing his last battle with Alzheimer’s. Its famous last line reading:

“I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.”

For another decade the American Star was pounded relentlessly by the sea until in 2007 it began to break apart and disappear. This was three years after President Ronald Reagan was laid to rest overlooking the Pacific ocean.

Ronald Reagan was transformed from what he termed a “bleeding heart liberal” into a Conservative by his own nature, his own kindness, his own intellect and his own compassion for people. Mr. Reagan knew America was the world’s “Shining City On A Hill” but also knew how fragile the system of Democracy is. Mr. Reagan looked to the past and spoke of the future:

“History comes and goes, but principles endure and inspire future generations to defend liberty, not as a gift from government, but a blessing from our Creator.”

We need to revisit the principles of Ronald Reagan, the principles of Conservatism and not let the Communists in America, in today’s government, send the America we know, respect and love to the bottom of the ocean, to the trash heap of history. Indeed!