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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...

It’s Celestial, Revolutionary, And Simply Good

by Mike Keeler Camellia sinensis came down to humans from high above.  Originally found growing on the slopes of the Himalayas, it was brought...

“Time in A Tapestry: The Power of Looking Back”

by Fred First I don’t think I ever seriously considered not driving eight hours to my forty-fifth high school reunion in Alabama this month....

Kentucky Unsettles Own House With State Support of Creationism

by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D. Do you recall the iconic story of the 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee?  It was fictionalized on the...

Green Means Go: To Myrna With Love

by Robert Adcox   The other day, while joining my fellow townsfolk in that automotive conga line known as commuting, it occurred to me that...

A Letter To My Rock – [Lucky and Sabrina recently lost their nine-year old Dobie, Rock.]

by Lucky Garvin Dear Rock, First, the vet was there that day because we called her to set you free. Ultimately it was my decision...

Stop, Look, Listen

by Hayden Hollingsworth That’s what the bars on the railroad crossing signs used to say.  It was not an idle warning.  In the early...