Erick Griggs
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September 25, 2007
The title of my article is tangential as I will attempt to shift paradigms and bring a glimmer of truth to an overlooked issue.The Palestinian people have been a stateless people since 1948.They live largely in abject poverty in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.There is a sizeable number of Palestin...
July 28, 2007
This week the battle for the Democratic nomination heated up between the 2 so-called front runners. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have gone back and forth about who was or was not ready to immediately meet with dictators and with or without preconditions. The pundit class has apparently declared ...
May 31, 2007
Although no votes will be cast for another 7 months or more,we are fairly certain that one of these declared or almost declared candidates will be our next President.So knowing this I offer my quick observations of some of the Republican candidates.The Democrats will be profiled in the coming days.T...
May 20, 2007
The immigration reform proposal brokered by some Democratic and Republican senators in Congress and the Bush administration is a good compromise that helps America address its massive illegal immigration problems. It is now important that, as the legislation makes it way through Congress, it not be ...
May 07, 2007
In my decade plus of following politics and the like, I have not come across a more non-issue than term limits. When friends of mine use to debate with me about the merits of term limits I would come back at them with the fact that there are already term limits and they are called elections. In the ...
May 06, 2007
Illegal immigration will not lead to the end of the American civilization as we know it nor is it a problem that should be ignored.You have those who sincerely believe that this problem should be fought with the ferocityof a war but I respectfully disagree.The solutions to illegal immigration are no...
May 03, 2007
After years of trying our best to make sense of the dire situation in Iraq we must ask ourselves,what is the way out?Let’s start with the premise that President Bush will not agree to any withdrawal as long as he is still president.This is because his place in history is largely riding on the outcom...