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BOB BROWN: FITNESS AND DEMENTIA

We focus today on the role of fitness in the prevention and management of dementia. Research in 2025–2026 shows that physical and mental health are closely linked: Engaging in regular...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The Crimes Of Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City is an abnormal human being. There has to...

SERWAN ZANGANA: Some Americans Don’t Understand Definition of “Dictator”

US forces capturing the President/Dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, is a milestone for the Venezuelans,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: President Trump Is Fighting The Last War – Part II

I am totally bewildered how a U.S. aircraft carrier group or Trump-class battleship is going to stop THOUSANDS of aerial...

BOB BROWN: The Sacred Oath of Office

According to Islamic tradition, the Prophet Muhammad received his first revelation of the Quran in...

Be Still And Know That I Am God – By Rev. Joseph P. Lehman

Before John Solomon Rarey’s “horse-whispering” technique was published in the 1870s, the only way to break a horse was by violence and force...

Rules, Rules and More Rules

by Keith McCurdy One question I am often asked, especially from parents of toddlers, is “how many rules should we have?”  For some reason...

Recipe of the Week: Fried Mahi Mahi Sandwiches Topped with Tartar Sauce Cole Slaw

by Leigh Sackett To me the ocean’s personality is very much like God’s personality – a force of great power to fear yet at...

Counting Blessings as Children Move On

by Joe Kennedy As scheduled from the moments they were born, my daughter Katherine and my son Michael packed their beds and other belongings...

Exercise . . . And So Much More

by Mary Jo Shannon When I joined the Salem Family YMCA in January 2000 and enrolled in a water aerobics class, my main concern...

Becoming Good Soil by Tupper Garden

“Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundred fold, some sixty, some thirty. Let anyone who has ears,...