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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...

DICK BAYNTON: The Adversity of Diversity

According to the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS) published in March 2018, there are 45.6 million immigrants, legal and illegal, living in the...

MIKE KEELER: Groundhog Day and Then Some

I know, I know, I KNOW! You're getting that funny feeling again. Like you've been here before. Like you woke up and read this stupid...

LUCKY GARVIN: Dogs Know The Most Important Thing

Mary and her husband Jim had a dog named 'Lucky.' Lucky was a real character. Whenever Mary and Jim had company come for...

DICK BAYNTON: The Problem of Power

Presidents, Governors, Prime Ministers and legislators accumulate power by (usually) winning elections to perform services for fellow citizens. Becoming one of the above-mentioned leaders...

JOHNNY ROBINSON: More Than Just Walking to School

Today there's a train blocking my path. I’ve been moving lightly on foot along the worn trail, two text books and two spiral notebooks tucked...

DICK BAYNTON: Innuendo and Actuality

The recent articles in the New York Times are teeming with rich and tempting innuendo. The rough definition of the word innuendo is ‘an...