The Shameless Antagonist Defends Rod Page Secretary Rod Page: Where do you dig guys like this up, anyway? Even if you don't think the NEA operates in the best interests of students, how does it improve your bargaining position to call them "terrorists"? Initially, I thought Rod Page committed an act of gross incompetence, but after considering all the evidence, I've retracted my condemnation. Please consider the news, as well as the additional information obtained through my affiliate, Shameless Research Incorporated. "Education Secretary Rod Paige called the nation's largest teachers union a "terrorist organization" Monday, taking on the 2.7-million-member National Education Association early in the presidential election year. Paige's comments, made to the nation's governors at a private White House meeting, were denounced by union president Reg Weaver as well as prominent Democrats. The education secretary's words were "pathetic and they are not a laughing matter," said Weaver, whose union has said it plans to sue the Bush administration over lack of funding for demands included in the "No Child Left Behind" schools law". Attribution: When I initally read Secretary Page's comments, I was incensed, but Shameless Research revealed that several math teachers had been caught at the Minneapolis Airport trying to smuggle protractors onto airplanes late Monday night....It seems they were arrested by the FBI for trafficking inWeapons of Math Instruction.