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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Running For President in 2028? – Part I

I strongly suspect that the self-assured and arrogant Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is going to be a presidential or vice presidential candidate in 2028. Unfortunately, her foreign policy credentials are extremely weak, especially regarding national defense and security. Her...

FRED FIRST: But Is It Art?

I have mentioned before that I have recently found pleasure and pleasant distraction in the...

BECKY MAUPIN: A New Season, New Expectations

Motherhood, I'm learning, is a series of seasons. None of them are truly easy; they're...

BOB BROWN: Aging Poetically, Part II

Jan called today. “Ed died Thursday… he is in a better place.” Ed, a retired...

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...

The Red Shirt of Courage

by Jon Kaufman All over this great land of ours college baseball teams of all levels are battling their opponents for the supremacy of...

Oh, For The Sake Of A Little Self-Esteem

by Keith McCurdy Have you ever done an internet search on self-esteem?  I just did and wow, I think satellites are still linking up...

How Good Words Go Bad

by Mike Keeler Start with a perfectly good word.  Take, for example, "cacher," which comes from the Latin "coactare - to constrain" and which...

Grilled Meats and Vegetables Over Saffron Orzo

by Leigh Sackett I get overzealous about a lot of things! But one thing at the top of my overzealous list is … SPRING!!! As...

The Sound of One Hand Typing

by Fred First I’ve been around the writer’s block a time or two. Pretty much every early morning for some years now, I’ve plopped...

Smartphones and Being Smart

by Stephanie Koehler I recently had a series of hardware malfunctions that left me intermittently without my smartphone for several weeks.  While I frequently...