Obama is a master negotiator. He will always push for more. The obvious answer is not to give any ground.

Much like the imagined assault on Gene Rosen. For anyone just tuning into Sandy Hook, here's a great presentation of the basics: http://moralmatters.org/2013/01/30/alleged-sandy-hook-shooting-massacre-pictures-with-captions-depict-the-hoax/

Many other great people are fighting CCC. Google: Truth in American Education, a site. Also, Donna Garner is a name you can trust. CCC is not just bad in itself, which should be obvious to all those "duped governors and business groups." It injects more malware into the educational system, and thus prepares the way for future decline. Three years ago, business leaders and media in my area (Norfolk) blitzed for this damned thing. They seemed to be in a kool-aid trance. I tried to say, it's from the Ed Establishment, from the NEA, from Obama and his czars, from the likes of Bill Ayers. What else do you need to know? The only good thing about Common Core is that it gives you a blueprint of what NOT to do.

Excellent piece. Please trust Malkin on this. One of the big reasons I wanted Romney to win is that he promised to roll back Common Core. Everyone should work to roll back Common Core. (Here's the main thing blocking ed reform in this country. No one wants to believe that the people at the top--the Education Establishment--are such ruthless SOB's. They are, and they like dumbing down. That's why they push sight-words, Reform Math, etc. It's a matter of history. John Dewey and everybody else who shaped American education from 1920 onward was a Fabian socialist or a communist. They didn't want to educate the country. They wanted to rule the country.)

May I suggest some good news. Seems to me the crisis is also exploiting Obama, so to speak. Millions of people are tuning in to the fact the official Sandy Hook story may be part-fake. So people are less likely to be swept along by Obama's sophistries. Didn't you feel the momentum drop as more questions emerged about Sandy Hook?

Completely correct. Hurray for Thomas Sowell. Our Education Establishment is best understood as a branch of the Communist International. I write about this stuff all the time and have been pushed to this extreme conclusion: if our elite educators like an idea, you know it's bad. Whole Word makes kids illiterate. Reform Math makes them unable to count. Constructivism makes them know less. Etc. We need to get rid of the phonies pushing all these bad ideas. al the time: thereis nohting pushe idn our public i'll

Doug Giles, Please report on Sandy Hook story. So many discrepancies. Best way to slow down Obama's gun grab is to establish the exact events that took place in Conn. My sense now is that the reported story is far from the real story. If people start to doubt WH and media, then we can get somewhere.

ON THE OTHER HAND: Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk) today carries article "Mass shootings haven't increased over the years, some analysts say," from the Los Angeles Times. Furthermore, there is an alarming amount of evidence that some of these events are staged. (To see for yourself, simply Google: Sandy Hook discrepancies.) This is such an astonishing possibility, your brain doesn't want to deal with it. But once you see the evidence, you will probably accept the verdict that this thing is unraveling. The only reason it survives, I'm afraid, is that our media don't investigate any more. When the Aurora shooting began to fall apart, the media went silent. I think we're seeing the same thing here.

I'm more convinced that this event was not as so far presented. We do the whole debate an injustice if we don't have out facts in order. To track the story, just search: Sandy Hook massacre discrepancies.

The best thing we can do, as a society, is to get all the facts straight. There are many contradictions and many things that are just weird. (As in the Aurora case.) One interesting thing about Aurora is that it was a huge crime/nightmare/story for a few weeks. Then the discrepancies began to mount up. That is, the story was just getting interesting, you might think. But the media lost interest, and turned way. Suddenly, that's how I remember it.. In other words, the media wanted only an anti-gun story. They did everything to push that. But as soon as other elements intruded, they got bored...Let's see if it happens again.