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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Barack and Michelle Obama Are Neither Apes Nor Monkeys

I read an article from the BBC on February 6 entitled, "Trump says he 'didn't see' part of video with racist clip depicting Obamas as apes," which was written...

BOB BROWN: AGING POETICALLY, PART I

Too often, the human race is a race against time. Until recently, I was a...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Twenty Reasons For Regime Change in Iran

1. The kidnapping of 66 Americans at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: When Is Trump’s Promise To Iran That “Help Is On The Way” Finally Going To Happen?

There was a horrific, chaotic carnage in the streets of Iran during a nationwide protest on January 8...

FRED FIRST: Missouri’s Capitol City: First-Time Tourist

I could not possibly do justice to my first visit a half hour south of...

My Charger: Not Just Another Dodge

by Robert Adcox The other day while going through old photographs, I came across a 1971 Dodge Charger I once owned. The car had...

Remind Me Again, in Whom Do We Trust? by Gary Robbins

Put your hand down into your pockets, your purse, or your wallet.  Take out a penny, a nickel, a dime.  And there, engraved...

Good News From The Healing World by Liza Field

by Liza Field There’s good news from far afield, these days — or even close at hand. Researchers are finding that a “new” purple...

Enough Already – Least Interesting Act in the Circus Needs to Go

by Joe Kennedy In the late 1970s or early 1980s I first heard of the concept of animal rights from a professor at Hollins...

Striving and Receiving – Scripture: Genesis 32:22-31 by Stuart Revercomb

In the chapters just ahead of the above referenced scripture we learn that things are about to get very interesting for Jacob who,...

First Year of Medical School: Successfully Completed

by Hayden Hollingsworth The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine will start its second class this week.  Out of more the 2700 applicants, around...