A Historical Perspective on the Arizona Violence

The Constitutional Alamo ^ | 01/09/11 | Michael Naragon

[Publius772000]

Thank you for the kind words. I’d love to see it get national exposure to the degree that I’d get to defend the premise on a news program. I told my wife that, if it ever happened, I would really tweak the MSM talking heads and quote Ecclesiastes: “There is nothing new under the sun.” :)

The point is that people, particularly the Media and those close to the investigation, need to quit pointing fingers at their political foes and deal with the reality of the situation. Their attempt to paint the real “culprit” of this tragedy will only serve to exacerbate the problem they’re allegedly trying to fix.

[ApplegateRanch]

I didn't realize you were the author. Very nice piece, and glad to hear at least some HS students are getting a real education in US History. As I said, a quibble; and a misundertanding on my part at that.

My own (1960; oh, my!) 8th grade teacher (memorizing, and learning a working knowledge of, and passing comprehensive tests on each Article and Amendment, Section by Section, and how they interrelated, was a state requirement for graduation into high school) was Conservative, and taught it accordingly.

Same for my 12th grade Civics teacher. Not so much my required U.S. History college classes.

I know the legislatures voted, in one form or another, for their state's Senators; but I always thought of that as an “appointment”.

Oh, and thank you for posting the entire article, rather than following the curerent fad of bloggers excerpting their own material to generate hits...and it is an interesting site.

[Publius772000]

Thanks :) I should have rephrased it to make it more clear, and, in fact, have done so on the actual article on my site. The last thing I want to do is mislead.

I was tempted, by the way, to do an excerpt. But I felt it was more important to get the word out than to generate hits for my modest little blog. I feel pretty good about what I was trying to say, as several commentators last night and today, including Glenn Beck on his radio program, have echoed my initial sentiments.

Thanks again!