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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...

BOB BROWN: The Significance of Meaning

Years ago, I took a book to read during our family’s traditional vacation at the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The little I had...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Is Not Qualified To Lead The Department of Health and Human Services

There is no question that the U.S. has a serious public health crisis compared to such similar industrialized countries as Sweden, Australia, and Japan. According...

RANDY HUFF: Of Laws and Life and Getting Along

“No one is above the law.” We hear it often and we believe it. And yet we know, like all things in this world, it...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker a Neo-Confederate Democrat?

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker arrogantly appears to be a modern day neo-Confederate Democrat. He truly thinks that he has the political authority to defy...

BOB BROWN: The Cost of Untamed Anger

Frank was my brother-law.  When I was a child, I spent a lot of time with Frank and my sister, Christine.  Oddly, I was...

RANDY HUFF: What is a Thing, Really?

Nominalism is a funny word. Though its use is vanishingly small, the idea is ever with us. Nominalism comes from the Greek work nomos meaning “name.”...
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