Well, it’s happened.

And I never thought it would.

But Sarah Palin and I actually agree on something.

This would mean very little to her, because in the grand scheme of things I am pretty inconsequential. But for those who remember my mock-interview column with her earlier this year, the above statement is not a hallucination.

We agree, alright.

We agree that Julian Assange, the man behind WikiLeaks, is essentially “an anti-American operative with blood on his hands” who ought to be “pursued with the same urgency we pursue al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders.”

The fact that the spin on WikiLeaks’ mission to expose secrets tantamount to homeland security, not only in the United States but multiple countries across the globe, is that the organization is some kind of noble watchdog for the world is, quite frankly, annoying.

The fact that documentary filmmaker Michael Moore put up tens of thousands of dollars toward Assange’s bail is, quite simply, un-American.

And the fact that probably too many people are buying into the idea of war as a matter of truth or lie is just disappointing. War is all strategy, gain and loss.

Assange and Co. are not reporters. Real reporters are kept to a standard of being objective, unless they are writing a column or … an employee of Fox News. Assange and Co. clearly hold an agenda.

The fact that Michael Moore would support something that has clearly put the security of this country and the people who fight for it at risk shows his lack of patriotism that he so often claims he has. But I am not really surprised. I got a migraine after watching “Fahrenheit 9/11,” the only documentary of his I’ve ever seen, and I’ll never watch, read or ingest anything of his again.

Finally, if anyone could explain the very core and nature of war, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it would still not make the reality of death, destruction and intensely brutal opposition any easier to swallow. War is unfortunate. So is death. But both happen and as a collective society we must have a better perspective on the reality of those truths in order manage in a world where so many societies collide.

And quite frankly, I’m going to leave it at that. I could go on and on about how every country in this world hoodwinks another just to get by, and that’s kind of the very nature of foreign relations as it seems to be of politics in general, but I find I present a better argument when I lack specifics. (That was a joke. Please don’t send hate mail. It’s Christmas, after all.)

That’s my opinion on the WikiLeaks abomination. Sarah Palin equals right. Julian Assange equals criminal. Michael Moore plus those who agree with him equal delusional.

Moving on to a lighter subject, I would very much like to hail a recent article by former Washington D.C. chancellor of public schools, Michelle Rhee. Since I first became aware of Rhee through publicity surrounding a documentary taking aim at the public education system in America, “Waiting for Superman,” I found her practical approach to her arena interesting.

After reading “What I’ve Learned,” in Newsweek earlier this month, she quite simply has become one of my own personal heroes.

This is not necessarily because I have a passion for education. I mean, I kind of do as someone who is frightened by the products churned out by out public schools as of late.

No, it is more for her passion that I admire Rhee. For her practicality. Rhee understands that public education has become less about the intelligence instilled in our children and more about how to get through a school year in the black. She is not afraid to say that even though the nature of a profession (teaching) is good doesn’t mean one does it well, and her decision to hold teachers to a higher standard, weed out the bad ones and nurture the good ones is something I hope to see embraced now that she has left her position to start a nationwide movement to improve our education system.

Education is not all about the efficiency of the technological era. It is about a passion for learning, for gaining knowledge and for respecting knowledge as an attribute.

Rhee’s heroism is in being unafraid to challenge the system she is in to be better.

And after reading the article I couldn’t help but wonder how different this world would be if from classrooms to hospital waiting rooms, the newsrooms and even our own little cubicles — we all did the same.

Jessica Sieff is a reporter for Leader Publications. Reach her at jessica.sieff@leaderpub.com.