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BOB BROWN: Aging Poetically, Part II

Jan called today. “Ed died Thursday… he is in a better place.” Ed, a retired pediatrician in Jacksonville, was my closest friend for 76 years. Had he lived a...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The US Media’s Monomaniacal Obsession With Nancy Guthrie’s Kidnapping

I do not mean to downplay the tremendous tragedy of the kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie's...

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...

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,...

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...

Economics As If People And Planet Mattered

by Fred First Is it just me, or does most everyone you talk to these days think that most everything in politics, economics, society...

Growing Old[Er]

by Lucky Garvin It was a sun-charged day; the air was spiced with scents of spring. I saw them as I sped by in...

Rumbling, Bumbling, Stumbling . . . New Job!

by Jon Kaufman Friends, when last we spoke I was mired in state of unemployment, a predicament shared by a growing number of Americans. ...

The Raindrop That Falls To The Earth – By The Reverend Barkley Thompson

Episcopal seminarians are required to complete a summer of hospital chaplaincy.  It is on-the-job training of the most intense kind, and the lessons...