While we are all focused on health care, while immigration and cap-and-trade wait in the wings, we shouldn't forget the fourth leg of Obama's nasty tricks to "change" America: education reform. One might argue that George W. Bush already federalized public school education with his infamous No Child Left Behind legislation. Whether one believes that its consequences have been positive or negative, one cannot dispute that NCLB has effectively given the federal government control over critical parts of the public school curriculum. State and local officials understand very well that they must teach and test what the feds want or they won't be able to feed at the federal education trough, to whose content they are hopelessly addicted.By dangling dollars, the federal government controls the operation, enrollment, budget, facilities, and curriculum of our esteemed institutions of higher education to a greater degree than most would acknowledge. The new monopolistic role of the...(Read Full Article)