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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 me, a student of the human mind. The election of “democratic socialists,” and the...

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...

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...

Trouble In The Classroom

by Mary Jo Shannon Only once during my elementary school days did I find myself in trouble with school authorities. The memory of that...

Living Within Our Means, Means Knowing Our Limits

by Fred First I recently read these headlines, and was oddly encouraged: “Europe has already run out of fish for the year.” I’ll share with...

My, My . . . How They Grow Up and We Don’t

by Jon Kaufman Can a young man who once attempted to clean his room with a gas powered leaf blower survive the wilds of...

Stas FUNK is here!

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to...

Very Basic Ruminations

by Robert Adcox The other day I was thinking about an experience I had when I was in basic training. The old joke goes...

Recipe of the Week: September Tomato Soup

by Leigh Sackett My garden was a late bloomer but it produced and some of its last tomatoes are lined up on my kitchen...