Twenty-six years ago, Ionel “Greg” Grigore came to the United States from Romania in search of freedom and opportunity. Today, the 54-year-old St. Louis businessman finds himself again battling dark political forces not unlike the ones that caused him to want to leave the Eastern European homeland of his birth. Recently, I spoke with Grigore [...]
‘Let ‘em have one finger, they take your whole hand’
April 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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University of Illinois Alums Honor Ecuadoran Crook
April 12th, 2010 · 5 Comments
When I read John Bambenek’s story about Rafael Correa published Sunday at BigGoverment.com, I was disgusted, disappointed and slightly disheartened, but not at all surprised. After all, it was the alumni association at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that honored their alum-turned corrupt Ecuadoran president with the 2009 Madhuri and Jagdish Sheth International Alumni Award [...]
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ObamaCare Damage Eerily Similar to Bio Attack
April 12th, 2010 · No Comments
Experts at the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center announced today the results of a study about two primary ways the United States could be harmed by a large-scale biological attack. In reviewing the study, I recognized two eerie parallels between the devastating aftermath of a bio attack and the negative [...]
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Romanian Immigrant: ‘Let’s say I came from hell’
April 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments
While attending the K and N Patriots’ weekly anti-socialism rally Saturday afternoon at the intersection of Highways K and N in O’Fallon, Mo., I had the good fortune to meet Ionel “Greg” Grigore and his mother Dumitra. The Grigores, 54 and 74 respectively, came to this country during the 1980s in search of freedom and [...]
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