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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...

Used Cars and Teachable Moments

A few months ago I purchased a used car.  It wasn’t a particularly life changing event and yet it brought back a lesson I learned...

Cheeseburger Soup

Halloween is pure excitement - an adrenaline rush, and then on top of that a sugar rush! So on Halloween night a good...

An Unfortunate, Untimely Failure of Orthodoxy

How has Orthodoxy impacted our environment?  In other words, can Orthodoxy be credited with any positive or negative developments in our historic relationship...

Chicken Tales: Fowl Language Warning

Yesterday, fall was in the air. Â I sat down in the maple shade of mid-afternoon with my legs full out on the...

Listening When It’s Easy—and Listening When It’s Tough

Tell me:  What happens to us as a family, a community, a nation—or a world—when the only people we talk with are people...

An Encompassing Empathy Brings Miracles

I met a lady in the ER. “You’re Erin’s dad, aren’t you?” For years my children were `Dr. Garvin’s kids’. As they make their...