Here is a new twist on logic. New York University will be offering a class on “Occupy Wall Street.” Will these be courses on finance, banking, economics or managing a hedge fund? Unlikely.

According to the free student newspaper of NYU: Washington Square News (WSN), the university’s “Department of Social and Cultural Analysis” will offer a class about the “history and politics of debt and take a deeper look at the economic crisis the movement is protesting.”

It has been confirmed that “Cultures and Economies: Occupy Wall Street” will be available next semester and taught by Professor Lisa Duggan as an undergraduate course.

But there is a kicker to this. OWS hates the top 1-percent but it may be necessary to be in a higher income bracket to pay for the course. You see, NYU was ranked 2nd on the 2011-2012 list of America’s most expensive colleges from CampusGrotto. The College Board lists per credit hour tuition at $1,159 at NYU.

This may actually fly in the face of NYU standards since the OWS ilk tend to walk out of classes, refuse to pay their student loans and drop out of college in protest of those loans.

However, the protestors are in favor of Professor Duggan who states:

“Occupy Wall Street has done us all the service of illuminating [the fact] that the economy operates within the framework of political, social and cultural conflicts, and not outside them.”

Maybe Professor Duggan should also mention taking personal responsibility for your actions such as paying for loans you have accepted. But if you take a look into the professors biography you may see personal responsibility isn’t really an attribute. Her areas of research and analysis include:

“Modern U.S. cultural, social, and political history; history of gender and sexuality; lesbian and gay studies.”

She also writes for the left-wing publication The Nation (which gets funding from the left’s big donor: George Soros). Imagine that!

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While we sit around and look at the “top-tier” GOP presidential field Herman Cain is winning straw polls, Michele Bachmann is quickly disappearing, Rick Perry is attempting to self-destruct and Mitt Romney continues to flip, flop, spin and tread water near the top.

Defending Romneycare, providing meaningless answers to questions, tap dancing and avoiding hard questions. This is what Mitt Romney seems to do best as candidate Romney.

One more glaring reflection on Mr. Romney is he seems to think the Department of Education is a good thing and that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has the correct mojo with the latest destructive federal takeover called “Race to the Top.”

Race to the Top is one more federal ploy, one more liberal policy intended to takeover state responsibility and pay off the union thugs with stimulus slush money for votes and power.

During a townhall meeting last week in Miami Mr. Romney touted Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and praised Race to the Top which rewards state education systems for reaching specific goals.

“I think Secretary Duncan has done some good things,” he said. “I hope that’s not heresy in this room.”

Romney has some views but how do we decipher the conflicting statements?

1. Education should not be confined to a teacher’s union only. There should be involvement from parents, the state, federal government with the support of the teachers.
2. He supports the concept of ‘No Child left behind’.
3. Romney supports the elimination of Federal Department of Education and favored keeping educational reforms to the lowest level involving parents, teachers and community.
4. Romney supports a means tested school voucher programs which gives students opportunity to attend any public or private school of their choice.

I see a conflict here. Surprise, surprise! In bold print above you see contradiction. Romney wishes to involve everyone including the federal government while supporting the federal program “No Child Left Behind”, supporting the elimination of DOE all while praising Obama administration follies such as Race to the Top.

It’s time for Mitt Romney to come clean on his education stance and to tell the American public exactly what he would do to reduce the size of government, if he would dismantle the Department of Education and if he would turn education responsibility over to the states.

Much has been written about Rick Perry and his support for higher education and illegal immigrants in Texas. As Governor Perry said to Heritage in October 2010:

“Our reforms that we’re putting into place that have been fine-tuned for Texas and our very diverse population out there [are] working.”

Texas doesn’t need a one-size-fits-all plan from Washington, and its social studies standards are a good case in point. Governor Perry has reaffirmed Texas’s commitment to the principle of federalism in education.

I would hope Mr. Perry feels this way about other states and their individual state’s rights. Mr. Romney needs to leave the comfort of his special spin room and answer the questions specifically. Also, the other GOP candidates need to back off of Rick Perry and start pointing to Romney and themselves with more specifics on all their programs and how they will reduce the federal government and return to the principles of the US Constitution.

Race to the top or a race to the founding principles of America? Mitt Romney and all the candidates owe that much to American’s prepared to take America back in 2012.

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Can America be saved? As we know, many American’s don’t like America as exceptional, one of a kind, a Constitutional Republic. Many American’s want us to look more like Europe, maybe even Eastern Europe during the Iron Curtain days. Maybe our cities and towns should resemble East Berlin before the “wall” came tumbling down.

Those so-called American’s are Marxists, Bolsheviks who are constantly playing the race card, the class warfare game, the anti-rich, anti-prosperous, anti-successful bunch who want redistribution of wealth, they want the so-called rich to pay up with their sweat equity.

Barack Obama was to be the left’s hero but many don’t like the fact that he hasn’t totally transformed America into a banana republic, third world afterthought. These people want hardcore socialism and the don’t want Conservatives getting in the way. Afterall, the Conservatives are radical, extremists, bent on destroying the America the Marxist have desired for decades.

Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, would change all that. Rick Perry isn’t a Beltway, status quo, DC parrot. Rick Perry has contempt for the politico’s in Washington and his record is one of success in Texas that hopefully would translate into success in all 50 states.

From the UK Telegraph:

It is a pocket of rural America that has changed little in a century and is about as far removed from the bustle and marble monuments of Washington DC as one could imagine.

But Paint Creek, where ranches and wooden homes, some now abandoned, are dotted beside cotton and wheat fields, is the place that defines the man who some Republicans believe could unseat President Barack Obama next November.

Governor Rick Perry was part of the fifth generation to work the land at Paint Creek, some 200 miles west of Dallas on the flat expanse of plains known as “the Big Empty”.

It was here that he was imbued with the country values of church, family, neighbourliness, thrift and hard work that now seem part of a bygone America beyond places like West Texas.

Back in the late 1950s, he was known as Ricky Perry, a mischievous boy, always smiling, who lived with his parents and older sister Milla in a rented wooden house that lacked indoor plumbing. He wore a cowboy shirt hand sewn by his mother, a locally renowned quilter, and his highest ambition seemed to be to become an Eagle Scout.

You won’t read positive stories about Gov. Perry in the United States press. They fear Rick Perry like they fear Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin.

“There were three things to do in Paint Creek: school, church, and Boy Scouts,” Mr Perry said last year, looking back on the late 1950s.

“That’s it. And it was plenty.” Paint Creek was “one of the most beautiful places or it could be one of the most desolate” depending on the weather. As a child, he ventured, it was the home of “some of the most principled, disciplined people in the world, and faithful”.

America needs principled people, faithful people, the kind that believe in the can do American spirit of exceptionalism. Ronald Reagan was principled and we need a principled leader in the White House who will faithfully abide by the US Constitution, shrink the federal government, bring back optimism and pride in America the way President Reagan did. We need someone to reverse course in American and a leader who will, to paraphrase Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), “compromise means going along with my plan.”

Rick Perry will cross the aisle to inform the Leftist opposition that he won’t compromise his principles, he won’t compromise the Constitution and he won’t compromise American exceptionalism. Rick Perry won’t compromise our freedom and liberty.

Mr. Perry, who has championed Israel and called for a muscular foreign policy, has the ability to appeal to all five elements of the party – fiscal, social and national security conservatives plus the Tea Party. However, the “establishment” isn’t real crazy about Rick Perry and that’s a good thing. If you want change with plenty of real hope thrown in for good measure than Rick Perry is your man, your candidate.

Mr. Perry’s friends believe he never intended to run for president but now feels he has to move beyond his beloved Texas because his country is in peril. The coming months will tell whether the boy from Paint Creek could be hailed by voters as a potential national saviour.

I believe Rick Perry is the antidote for Marxism and Barack Obama. I now have my candidate for President of the United States.

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