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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...

Music: Binding Our Lives Together

by Fred First A friend of mine is writing a book about people and places along the Crooked Road. On one of his interview...

Blessed Unrest: A Story of What’s Right about a Wronged World

by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D. During my recent attendance at the COP16 U.N. Global Climate Change Conference in Cancún, I learned from a friend...

A Father’s Diary #1

by Lucky Garvin Although my dear boy is now twenty-seven years old, he was once much younger; at which time the following  observations were...

Recipe of the Week: Ruby’s Liver Chip Cookies

by Leigh Sackett Dogs are such well loved creatures; the main reason, of course, being that they love us so well to begin with -...

One Spirit, One Body, One Church by Donna Hopkins Britt

Labrador retrievers were bred to swim; they have webbing between their toes to prove it.  At a farm, we would walk our Labs...

Riding the Hangzhou Express

by John Robinson The three gray-suited workers hover like bees over the gracefully-shaped nose of the most beautiful train I have ever seen. OK, so...