Interesting quote from educational expert Charlotte Iserbyt, former Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, US Department of Education, under the Reagan Administration.

"You think the purpose of education is reading, writing and arithmetic? The purpose of education is to change the thoughts, actions, and feelings of students.

Hitler wanted to control the educational system in Germany, Stalin did in Russia, Mao Zedong in China....

“There’s a weird irony at work when Sen. Barack Obama, the black presidential candidate who will allegedly scrub the stain of racism from the nation, vows to run afoul of the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery. For those who don’t remember, the 13th Amendment says: ‘Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime... shall exist within the United States.’ In Obama’s mind it must be a crime to be born or to attend college. In his speech on national service......

As James Madison, our Constitution’s principal author, wrote in the Federalist Papers (No. 46), “The ultimate authority... resides in the people alone... The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation... forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition.”

More to the point, Justice Joseph Story, appointed to the Supreme Court by Madison, wrote in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833), “The right...

Inflation is going to get out of control. Time to stock up on ammunition to sell at a profit later. Money in the bank is going to be losing money.

They would do anything to get that commission - now look. Bye bye!

Mortgage-Fraud Crackdown Brings Dozens of Arrests
Topics:Mortgages | Credit | Housing | Real Estate
Companies:Freddie MacBy Reuters | 19 Jun 2008 | 01:20 PM ET Font size: More than 400 real estate industry players have been indicted since March—including dozens over the last two days—in a Justice Department crackdown on incidents of mortgage fraud nationwide that have contributed to the country's...