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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump‘s Decision To Release The Epstein Files Is Overdue

I read an article in the New York Post on November 16 entitled “Trump says House Republicans should vote to release Epstein files in stunning reversal: “‘Nothing to hide, ’” written by Zoe...

ANDY PITZER: Amtrak Trek: Lake Shore Limited/Southwest Chief/Empire Builder

NYC TO CHI: Lakeshore Limited (NY, MA, PA, OH, IN, IL) The first leg of the Amtrak train...

BOB BROWN: The Recent Sale of the Brooklyn Bridge, Part One

The 2025 election results in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Seattle are troubling to...

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,...

FRED FIRST: Winter is Coming: Make Ready!

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

Corporations Can’t Go Home Again

by Mike Keeler Thomas Wolfe famously explained, "you can't go home again." Mitt Romney infamously said, "corporations are people, my friend." Put them together, and...

By the Sea of Galilee

Just over four years ago I received an all expense paid trip to Israel that was furnished to me by AIPAC - the...

Food For Thought

by Robert Adcox Grocery shopping is thought of by most as a boring, weekly trip involving plodding up and down eight or nine aisles...

Should Virginia Secede from the Menhaden Union?

Secession is in the air once again in Virginia as a state senator has introduced a bill that would withdraw the Commonwealth from...

An Old Perspective for New Year

by Keith McCurdy Recently, while listening to a teenager complain about how unfair life was and how her entire day had been ruined by...

Patience . . . and Progress

by Hayden Hollingsworth As Longfellow translated from the German poem, “Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.”  History would...