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Bob Griffiths has been a progressive writer and blogger for the last 15 years. He has contributed numerous Op-Ed Articles on the topics of education and politics. As a freelance writer he has contributed to Yahoo News, OEN, and local news sources.
(11 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 24, 2016 Trump and His Poorly Educated Now Rule America
The reality of a Trump Administration will determine if his promise to "Make America Great Again" is achievable or instead just the skillful manipulation of the "poorly educated" masses.
(20 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 7, 2016 A New Game Plan for the Democratic Party
Trump did a very good job of selling a nonexistent solution to desperate people living in depressed rust-belt and coal mining areas. Like an old time snake oil salesman that goes from town to town telling people his bottle of elixir will cure all that ails them. As Trump's popularity spread, his arrogance was fueled ignorance.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 23, 2016 Have we kept faith with our Greatest Generation?
The Greatest Generation still speaks to us and anyone that has walked the rows of grave markers at Arlington Cemetery can hear them whisper. Either we find a way to care and respect each other or this great nation could perish from the face of the earth.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 19, 2016 The Republican Tempest
The survivors of this political storm will stand on the shore of their island and look out on the shipwreck that was once the Grand Old Party. As the sky clears, the survivors will come to realize that the man responsible for sinking the Republican ship is still here; Donald Trump will not go away.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 30, 2016 GOP Disregards the Lessons of History
Republicans have pushed the hard lessons of the 2012 election to some distant place within their collective memories. They disregard these lessons at their own peril.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 21, 2016 The GOP Convention: An Ocean of Hatred
Since 2008, with each step, the Republican Party has waded deeper and deeper into an ocean of hatred and anger. The vital question is, will we allow the GOP to drag the rest of America into their self-destructive whirlpool of bitterness?
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 20, 2016 Trump: No Friend to Veterans
Trump seems to be eager to send our soldiers into harms way, but where was he during the Vietnam War?
(8 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 12, 2016 The Rise and Fall of the Republican Party
The Republican Party has become an embarrassment to itself and to America. Historians will likely debate whether the fall of the GOP was a slow moral decline or accidental suicide.
SHARE Sunday, May 29, 2016 Pennsylvania Republicans vs. Neighborhood Public Schools
The Pennsylvania GOP wants homeowners to accept the burden of increased property taxes so they can protect Big Oil and Gas producers from paying their fair share of state taxes to support public education.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 7, 2016 Today's Republican Party: A Strategic Failure
Whether Trump wins the presidential nomination is irrelevant. The damage is done and Republicans are left looking confused and weak. GOP leaders are trying to blame everyone but themselves, but they own this disaster.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 1, 2016 The Republican Party's Perfect Storm
All the good that came before here in our country, all the words of justice and humanity are being drowned out by shouts of anger and inhumanity from the far right.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 4, 2015 Ms. Soto's First Grade Class
This day should have ended like most other days with small lunch boxes returned to backpacks for the trip home to Mommy and Daddy. But today, December 14, 2012, was to become a day like no other in the history of America.
(15 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 1, 2015 The New Lunatic Fringe
To better understand the hate-fueled protests directed at President Obama we need to examine an earlier period of history when hyper-partisan extremists were out of control and threatened to destabilize our democracy.