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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. That would allow the oppressed people and disaffected military of Venezuela to overthrow this Hugo Chavez...

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...

BOB BROWN: Recent Sale of Brooklyn Bridge, Part Two

In 2025, America’s fertility rate reaches a historic low, while Muslim and Arab communities maintain...

Dead Language A Wonderful Part of Living

by Mary Jo Shannon Latin is dubbed “a dead language.” For centuries after the modern Romance languages, derived from Latin, were spoken in France,...

A Positive Contribution of Faith by Tim Harvey

Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. If it is possible,...

Recipe of the Week: Meatball Minestrone Soup

by Leigh Sackett It would be so great to get at least a little snow! My children keep waiting and waiting . . . Remember...

More Tales From the ER Diary

by Lucky Garvin I’m on duty in the ER. Thirty inches of fresh snow on the ground.  Police are asking that all unessential travel...

Health-Care Sticker Shock in VA

The coming year will determine whether  or in what form  health reform survives. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on reform's constitutionality...

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...