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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump’s “Great Gatsby Party” At His Mar-a-Lago Club on October 31 Was In Poor Taste

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is our country’s largest anti-hunger program for men, women, and children. 42 million poor Americans lost their SNAP benefits (f.k.a. food stamps)...

FRED FIRST: Winter is Coming: Make Ready!

Though a few poetic souls and tree-hugging types like me will make soft cooing noises...

BOB BROWN: “I don’t see how I can go on like this”

The round, sad Asian American face of the 26-year-old single Soldier sitting uncomfortably in front...

SCOT BELLAVIA: God in the Library

Talking to strangers about God is a muscle I don’t work very often. But I...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Antisemite Zohran Mamdani Will Be An Economic Disaster For New York City – Part IV

As Gabrielle Fahmy wrote in the Post, "in its most recent platform, the group blasts...

MORGAN GRIFFITH: The New Man

This Easter I want to revisit one of my favorite hymns, He Is Risen. Though I’ve shared this one before, the message of He...

FRED FIRST: Birds Behaving Badly

I could not resist the alliteration, even though the You-wanna-piece-of-me Osprey is the baddest bird I could find in my limited ornithographic collection. (Yes...

DEVOTIONAL: Jesus’ 7 Sayings From The Cross (4)

From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land.  About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: America’s Endless Wars for Endless Peace Continue in Ukraine

The United States may be approaching in the near future a hot war or direct conflict with Russia, which could possibly escalate into a...

SCOTT DREYER: Are Dems Making Trump A Martyr?

Never having claimed to be a legal expert, I share these observations as a social studies teacher and concerned American. Last week President Trump was...

DEVOTIONAL: Jesus’ 7 Sayings From The Cross (3)

When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” and to the disciple, “Here is...
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