Arne Duncan – Granite Grok

From Obama and Holder to Trayvon Martin and Nickolas Cruz

They should have seen Nickolas Cruz ‘coming’ a mile away but no one paid attention because beginning under Barack Obama and Eric Holder they were trained not to look too hard and not to see too much. Mike Rogers joins me to explain. More ways to listen on the original blog post page

YOU sir, as a Cabinet Secretary, are BOUND to Constitutional strictures!

by Skip

Once again, we see yet another Progressive downplay the values by which the government is to act by and to be held against. Education Secretary Arne Duncan:

“I want to talk to gun owners and hunters and sport shooters and ask them, what should we do? I want to talk about community and responsibility, and I want to talk about values — because we have common values that go far beyond the constitutional right to bear arms.

A number of things come immediately to mind:

First, your responsibility IS to the Constitution. Period. First. Last. You are the Government – stick to what the Government must obey (be it ever so hard for the Obama Administration to do that)
Second, an oh so soft slither around the fact that the Second Amendment is not about hunting and it is not about sport shooters.
Third, this IS about you trying to not have to talk about the Constitution – because it limits you.
Fourth, you don’t WANT that limitation – so you all (Obama Administration) are trying get people to emote instead of think, to think in the moment instead of long term and “what brung us to this place in the dance” -the sense of Federalism and a limit on what Government can do in manipulating Society.
Fifth, it is because, in large part, that you Progressives have swapped out traditional values for Progressives ones that we are in this pickle.

Yes, I just said it. I lay it all on the Progressives with the denigration of hard work and the traditional work ethic that made a lot of people no longer ashamed to be on the dole. I blame them for the substitution of absolute values for a secular humanism whose values can change from day to day – situational ethics run amok. I blame them that Progressives believe that the rest of us cannot function in Society (ever closed to the irony, these “self-assured incompetents” of the poor and worse job that Big Government is delivering) without the guiding hand of themselves. I blame them for the spiritual emptiness that they are wreaking in the country. I blame them for the financial disgrace (with many helping hands of Republicans who merely wish “to get things done” without counting the cost).

I will answer “what should we do?”

GrokTV Event – Seacoast Republican Women Congressional Forum – Question 5- Nationalizing Education Standards?

by Skip

For the cost of our educational system at the K-12 levels, our results are deplorable. No Child Left Behind was an attempt to “fix” that with uneven results (and unions screaming that they should not be judged or evaluated by their pupils results). Now, Fed. Ed. Sec. Arne Duncan, with his Race To the Top, is trying to institute an even more Top Down Federalization of education by “hijacking” what is known as the Common Core Standards with “awards” (or is that handcuffs?) of Federal money. Is this something that NH should be in, or should local control be preeminent?

Question 5: What is your opinion of the Common Core Standards that the Federal Govt is suggesting as a national curriculum?

Public Education Money Pit

by Steve MacDonald

George Bush 43 doubled the budget at the Department of Education over eight years to roughly $32 billion. Barack Obama more than double it again with the only bloated budget the Democrat congress ever dared to pass.

That first Obama budget increased spending at the Department from Education from $32 billion per year in 2009 to $71,000,000,000.00 (Billion) per year by 2011. That works out to over $400 million more dollars spent per school day nationally (assuming 180 days of school), in addition to all the state or local taxes you also pay for public education. And Obama want’s more. For what you ask?