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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Congressional Republicans Know This War Is Going Well

I read a defeatist op-ed in the New York Times entitled," Republicans Know This War Is Going Badly." It was written by opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg on March 27. If I only read the New York Times and...

JOHNNY ROBINSON: Keep it Fun

It was a while back, maybe twenty years ago. I was setting up for an...

SERWAN ZANGANA: By Killing HB 295, VA Senate Democrats Devalue Lives of Correctional Officers

Delegate Mitchell Cornett (R-Grayson County) introduced HB 295 in this year's General Assembly. Its goal...

BOB BROWN: While the World Slept: The Pathogens of Chaos Part II: The Divergent Path

Before we can address the fracturing of our civilization, we must be precise in our...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Pope Leo XIV Needs To Shut Up About The US-Israeli War Against Genocidal Iran – Part III

Pope Leo XIV is extremely naive in assuming that both the US and Israel can...

FRED FIRST: To Market, To Market

Reinventing myself: again. And doing it solo. I hardly know where to start. So I won’t. Not yet. Maybe soon. Until then, a few observations...

LUCKY GARVIN: The Rose and the Bower

Even though I stood well away from them in the broad doorway of our cardiac resuscitation room, I could see them clearly. I noticed...

BOB BROWN: A Virtuous Life

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) described virtue as the habit of choosing the mean between two extremes: excess and deficiency. For example, courage is the habit...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Putin Has Turned Trump Into A Chump

Russia fired a massive 367 drones and missiles on thirty Ukrainian cities and villages after sundown on May 24. It was the worst aerial onslaught on...

FRED FIRST: Gaggy Veggies I Have Loathed

I figured I might as well get another use out of the short personal essay I read recently at out little writers’ gathering here....

BOB BROWN: The Human Spirit

The human spirit is that which leaves the body at the moment of death. In this sense, the spirit is life itself. It is beyond...