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ROBERT L. MARONIC: The Ceasefire With Iran On April 7 Was Not A Big Win For The US

I think that President Trump made a great diplomatic mistake with Iran (brokered by duplicitous Pakistan) on April 7. If the Iranians said they had enough near-weapons-grade uranium to make eleven nuclear bombs...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: When The Papacy Becomes an A**

General Dwight D. Eisenhower issued a brief prayer on June 4, 1944, which was two days before...

BOB BROWN: While the World Slept: The Pathogens of Chaos, Part III: The Lyrical Enchantment

Several years ago, when Paul McCartney brought his legendary melodies to the foothills of Charlottesville,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Congressional Republicans Know This War Is Going Well

I read a defeatist op-ed in the New York Times entitled," Republicans Know This War Is Going Badly." It was...

JOHNNY ROBINSON: Keep it Fun

It was a while back, maybe twenty years ago. I was setting up for an...

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...

There’s No Place Like Home!

by Mary Jo Shannon When I taught three and four-year-olds, one of their favorite stories was about a mouse family who lived in a...