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Columnists

BOB BROWN: The American Flag

All my life, I’ve loved the American flag. I was taught there is something special about our flag, that it is never trampled upon in war or peace, and...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: There Is No Need For A U.S. Ground War In Venezuela

The easiest way to overthrow Nicolás Maduro, the narco-terrorist dictator of Venezuela, is to finance an insurgency....

SCOTT DREYER: Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

Americans celebrate Thanksgiving today, and along with Canadians in October, are the only people on...

DAWN CUSTALOW: Pocahontas Reframed and Thanksgiving

I just returned from the 9th annual Pocahontas Reframed film festival 2025 in Richmond, VA,...

SCOTT DREYER: “Forgive Me When I Whine”

This poem, of unclear authorship, reportedly comes from the dark Great Depression days of the...

JOY SYLVESTER-JOHNSON: Walter, I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You

“Breaking Bad” is a television series, in its sixth year, that I have never watched—until now. I heard a piece on NPR about the...

DICK BAYNTON: Homeless, Hopeless and Helpless

Estimates suggest that there are as many as 1.6 billion people worldwide who lack adequate housing; that’s slightly more than 20%. That means that...

MIKE KEELER: Fifty Years Later, Paul McCartney is Still Alive

The rumor that he was dead actually started in 1966, when college kids heard that he'd been killed in car a crash and replaced...

LUCKY GARVIN: Phenomena

When Sabrina and I first began rehabbing as a team nearly twenty years ago, any reasonable person, asked the question: Will Lucky or Sabrina...

EDWARD WRIGHT HAILE: Ponds

Who can think of any prayer not answered by sunlight through high green deciduousness walking a forest floor divvied among ponds and wings? - Edward Wright Haile  - from...

DICK BAYNTON: Introspection to Intrepidity

Today’s column is about women. Ladies who did some pensive introspection and transformed their thoughts into actions of intrepidity. This means they did some...