William Grant
Who am I?
I'm just a concerned citizen. People tell me I'm a fair writer and I have strong political opinions, a potentially dangerous combination, but there you go. I have no specific political leanings, except I dislike ignorance and those that take advantage of it.
That is why I speak out.
I'm just a concerned citizen. People tell me I'm a fair writer and I have strong political opinions, a potentially dangerous combination, but there you go. I have no specific political leanings, except I dislike ignorance and those that take advantage of it.
That is why I speak out.
Contact Information
Articles by William Grant
November 04, 2006
There's a group called The Minuteman Project. It exists, as the web site states as "a citizens' Vigilance Operation monitoring immigration, business, and government" They are against NAFTA. I don't hold that against them. I'm against it too. They are against what they claim is a growing "North ...
November 01, 2006
As the mid-term election madness reaches it's peak in this last week before voting, I see the Republicans almost certain to lose the Senate and the House majorities, and I think back to the days when Clinton was in office; the Lewinsky scandal, the S&L scandal, ethnic cleansing in Serbia, ...
May 17, 2006
Advertising is a big industry. It permeates our society to a degree unmatched in history. All forms of communication are subject to advertising; from television, magazines, newspapers. Even when you send a simple email through Yahoo, a small advert goes with it. It is inescapable. You can't kee...
April 15, 2006
Everyone likes to talk about the United States giving Iraq freedom, turning them into a democracy so they can have the same benefits we do, but they forget something fundamental to the process that we can never give them: Responsibility.
Freedom is a responsibility, it is an attitude, and the Iraq...
March 29, 2006
Unfortunately, I believe it bounced.
?The newly released EIA report reveals that carbon dioxide controls would likely cost the economy $115 billion dollars per year to implement and would throw 1 million Americans out of work. That would shave 1.2 percent off an economy that is already perilously ...
March 29, 2006
There seem to be heroes all around us. We see them in war. We see them as policemen, firemen, doctors. We see them every time there is a natural (or unnatural in the case of 9/11) disaster. The definition seems to be "an ordinary person doing their job dispite the consequences to their own well-...
February 13, 2006
The idea of democracy is appealing to everyone. Whenever a nation wants validation of it's leadership, it says it has democracy and that it's people enjoy freedom. It was even claimed by Saddam Hussein (although no one believed it for a second). Dictatorships that attempt democracy invariably deg...
January 29, 2006
People speak of the "right to vote". Many even speak of the responsibility to vote.
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom."
Everyone knows that quote. It is used often as a rally cry for activists and others who circulate petitions trying to gather support for their current crusad...
January 20, 2006
The Bill of Rights almost never was. It wasn't so much that people were against it. They just didn't see the need to have these rights spelled out in a document. After all, the Declaration of Independence explained our basic rights as self-evident. Everything could be derived from them, they sai...
January 19, 2006
I'm not. I think he's the single worst president we've had and he's probably done more to strip away the freedom and security of the American citizen than any other public official in American history. I also think he can do a lot of damage to the country in the time he has left. But I don't f...
December 22, 2005
These days, it seems you're either for leaving the Patriot Act untouched or you're for tearing the whole thing down. Where are all the moderates, the cool heads who rationally discuss how the Patriot Act can be modified to remove the bad parts and keep the good parts? Where is the discussion inste...
December 20, 2005
Even before the recent revelation that the Bush administration has been secretly spying on Americans in defiance of traditional authority, many people had begun to wonder: how much security are we getting for the things we’re giving up? When the government claims it has to go behind our backs to ma...