The Daily Kos probes at length Utah Sen. Margie Dayton's attack on the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. Dayton successfully cut off additional funding to the esteemed high school program, alleging "they promote the U.N. agenda."

In response to angry e-mails, Dayton's intern sent out a form response that says "Senator Dayton's concerns with the IB program result from information she has received from the Education Reporter."

The dKos blogger ragged claws scuttling points out:

The Education Reporter ("The Newspaper of Education Rights") is a publication of the Eagle Forum, Phyllis Schafly's conservative group.

The Eagles are concerned that the UN's educational wing (UNESCO) supports IB. UNESCO sees IB as a way "to promote peace, human rights and democracy . . . accept the need to educate responsible citizens respectful of other cultures and the need to resolve conflicts peacefully."

Keep that up, warns Eagle Forum, and us North Americans will soon be speaking Canexican (Mexi-nadian?) and buying our daily baguette with euros.

Once again, the puppet strings at the Legislature lead back to Utah's most powerful woman, Utah Eagle Forum president Gayle Ruzicka. Because of her feared phone tree, Ruzicka has always wielded inordinate power over conservative GOP lawmakers. But Dayton and Sen. Chris Buttars — she and Chris regularly shares "walks" in the Capitol — do her bidding as flying monkeys, excuse me, "eaglettes."