The First Mulatto President of the United States

In November 2008, a mulatto man was elected President of the United States. He claimed to be black, although he is not. His mother was white; father unknown (Frank Marshall Davis?).

His formative years were spent in Muslim schools in Indonesia. He went to Punahou Academy, an elite college-prep school in Hawaii, and Occidental College in California on affirmative action scholarships – even though he had not experienced prejudice and poverty. Bill Ayers father helped him get into Columbia University and then Harvard Law School. He became editor of the Law Review without writing anything. Bill Ayers probably wrote Dreams From My Father – his “autobiography.” He headed Project Vote in Chicago and successfully got out the dead vote.

He became an Illinois state Senator and a United States Senator, both without significant accomplishments. A speechwriter probably wrote The Audacity of Hope – another “autobiography.” Other than “community organizer” and college instructor of law, he lacks experience in other areas. As President he appointed over 30 “Special Assistants to the President” - czars – to manage the areas where he was lacking in experience. None are accountable to the people's representatives or the people.

In the first 2 years while Democrats controlled both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Affordable Care Act, the Dodd-Frank Banking Reform, TARP and many other big government laws were passed. Deficits were over $1 Trillion each year. The national debt has soared over $6 Trillion since BHO took office.

Common Core Math is a Crime!

I have seen Common Core arithmetic instruction videos for subtraction and multiplication, and I view this as a crime! Teachers who teach subtraction and multiplication to elementary school children this way should be placed in the public stocks, and the students and their parents supplied with rotten eggs and rotten cabbage to throw at them. Colleges of Education which taught future teachers to teach this way should have their doors wrapped shut with crime scene tape!

I have a Masters degree in mathematics, and I will admit that the number line is an important concept which links Geometry and Algebra and the lattice method works, but these have no place in an elementary school. It does not matter that students are allowed to use calculators and will only use these concepts in theory and not reality. Each student should be able to do the arithmetic on paper and use the calculator only as a tool for efficiency and speed.

Our arithmetic is based on the decimal (base 10) system. Elementary students must be taught the structure of a decimal number with hundreds, tens, units on the left of the decimal and tenths, hundreths on the right. Other number bases are important, but that is also a subject for higher-level work. My favorite example is one plus one equals one zero (1+1=10). This is base 2 and allows us to use digital devices like calculators, computers, smart phones, etc. Teaching this to a normal elementary student should be a crime!