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Eric Newcomb is an anthropologist and amateur historian, as well as a musician, poet, writer and web applications developer.
As a father and husband, he dedicates much of his political energies to ending poverty and homelessness, ensuring quality education for all people and encouraging religious tolerance and political accountability, all in the hopes of improving our world for his children and the millions of children in every nation.
He also hates cameras, so the only photo available is from his wedding.
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 9, 2007 Overhauling the Electoral System: A proposal
Though in every other respect I believe our Constitution to be representative of the most perfect form of government currently known, the electoral college is not able to deal with a population so much larger than that imagined by our Founders. But in order to bring about change in the electoral system, we must first understand that system.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 12, 2007 Rising Crime and Politics
Our nation has seen a rise in crime lately. Can this be caused by the political climate?