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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Labor Prime Minister Keir Starmer Is A Disappointment And Disgrace

Labor Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who increasingly reminds me of the antithesis of former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, stated on Friday, February 20, that he would refuse to “allow US forces...

BOB BROWN: Peace of Mind: The Logic of an Anchor, Part 1 of III

In 1953, an attractive, intelligent young medical student, one year ahead of me at the...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The Democratic Party’s Revolution By Illegal Immigration

I read an insightful op-ed about illegal immigration during the Biden administration in The New York...

FRED FIRST: On Eagle’s Wings

This is an excerpt from a continuing story of finding home. Much comes before; and...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Running For President in 2028? – Part II

I read an article on nbc.com on February 13 entitled, “In Munich, AOC warns that democracies must deliver for the...

Will Wars Ever End?

by Hayden Hollingsworth President Obama announced last week that the war in Iraq will end on December 31.  That this came as a surprise...

Celebrating Mediocrity

by Keith McCurdy Recently a friend told me a story about his son’s football banquet.  As my friend put it, they weren’t even close...

A Great Line Can Always Be Improved

by Mike Keeler Take, for example, the Battle of Trafalgar, fought 206 years ago this week.  Horatio Nelson had been ordered to find and...

Wilson Memorial – A Unique High School

by Mary Jo Shannon In September 1948, students from four Augusta County high schools were joined together in one huge consolidated high school.  That...

Fed by Ravens by Gary Robbins

When I was a youngster, I would sometimes find myself outside in late April or early May when it began to rain.  These...

Time and Space, and How to See a Tree

by Fred First Browsing the web one recent morning, a “space exploration” site displays two images side by side on my monitor. On the...
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