If we had more people that were independently curious enough to study history - we wouldn't be in the mess we are now...
Parents need to do what Lt. Col. Allen West's parents did with him when he was growing up: assign history lessons at home for discussion and testing his comprehension. As a result, we have a 22 year war vet - and HERO - who understands the Constitution backward and forward - golly, he even understands that we are NOT a democracy but a REPUBLIC.
We need this man in the pipeline...He ran for Congress in ‘08 - with no real support from the GOP = (a new comer - like Palin - so the establishment is threatened, it's not “his turn”)
He's running again for 2010 - Another big plus, like Palin, he's NOT a lawyer - so tells it straight up, no twisting/parsing.
But I digress ;o)
Dion introduces Allen West
Say, I don't mean to imply that Columbus was incompetent, or a charlatan. Bit of a hustler, maybe. He had a project to sell, and sell it he did, he also sold himself as project manager, and he did set up a viable colony. In making it back and forth across the Atlantic 3 times with feeble gear any self-respecting lobsterman would laugh at, not to mention the USCG, he deserves a lot of credit for guts, if nothing else ... and there's a hell of a lot else.
That boy done good. Still taking gold out of the Dominican Republic from sources he found!