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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Russia’s Inhumanity To Russians – Part I

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, located in modern Belarus, formally ended Bolshevik Russia's participation in World War I on March 3, 1918. Since then, both the Red Army and its successor, the Russian...

JOHNNY ROBINSON: The Changing of the Tires

The car I drive now doesn’t even have a spare tire. Can you believe that?...

FRED FIRST: Facing Forward. Facing Back.

Maybe it’s okay that I can’t go back twenty Januarys past, or ten as a...

BOB BROWN: “A Very Heavy Heart For The State of The World”

A neighbor sent the following email to all who reside in this part of Albemarle...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hands Off Denmark!

President Trump has repeatedly called for the annexation of Greenland since 2019, recently appointing former...

SCOTT DREYER: I Couldn’t Believe What I Saw In Those Manila Folders… (Part 1)

From 1999-2010, Roanoke City Public Schools hired me to teach history at Patrick Henry High School (PH). It was a personal and professional blessing...

FRED FIRST: One Move Left In Us . . .

We were working on a plan for the rest of our lives, for when the time would be right. And we were waiting for...

Brighten Any Space with Containers of Summer-Flowering Bulbs

Add unexpected beauty to your patio, deck, or balcony with summer-blooming bulbs. You may have grown elephant ears, lilies, dahlias, gladiolus, and caladiums in...

SERWAN ZANGANA: Don’t Cut Income Taxes And Raise Sales Tax; Instead Expand Children’s Medicaid

Governor Youngkin’s budget proposal to reduce state income taxes and raise sales taxes would be a hit to the majority of the Virginians. If...

H. Bruce Rinker III, Ph.D. : In Memoriam

Bruce Rinker III, Ph.D., scientist, veteran science educator, conservationist, and explorer, passed to the Beyond on Sunday, January 7, 2024, at King’s Daughters Health...

DEVOTIONAL: The Easiest, Fastest Way To Resolve Conflicts

A person’s discretion makes him slow to anger, And it is his glory to overlook an offense.  Proverbs 19:11 (NASB) Whether in dating, marriage, family,...