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BOB BROWN: Journey to the Promised Land of Health

Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr., is the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. He is a member of the Kennedy family, a...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Iran Is Playing Trump Like A Chump

Since Ayatollah Khomeini seized power on February 11, 1979, after the exile of the Shah of Iran the...

FRED FIRST: Lonesome Highway: Hurry Up and Wait

If you don't know where you're going, how will you know when you get there? We...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The CBS Evening News Made Me Cry A River Of Tears

I was watching the CBS Evening News, co-hosted by John Dickerson and Maurice Dubois on April 17,...

DAWN CUSTALOW: American Travelers – A Cautionary Tale

My cultural underpinnings were first rooted in my Indian reservation in Virginia, yet my world...

FRED FIRST: Fragments: Late April

EARTH DAY I neglected to devote any words to the event this year for the first time since 2003. The notion, this particular bizarro year,...

BOB BROWN: Midnight of the Soul

There is a time when our situation seems too much to bear. It may be physical, mental, or spiritual agony. Our life may have...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump Is Wrong To Defund The Voice of America

One of my earliest childhood memories was listening to the BBC during the evening on my father’s Grundig shortwave radio with him in 1963....

SCOT BELLAVIA: On Reading

For all their differences, books by writers about writing agree on one thing: To be a writer, you must be a reader. So, I...

FRED FIRST: Lonesome Highway: The On-Ramp

Alzheimer’s cruelty is told only in part by the time it takes to show itself and be named. Some sources say that the first anatomical...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: A $1 Trillion Defense Budget Could Soon Bankrupt The U.S.

Rich Lowry, the editor of the National Review, wrote a column in the New York Post on April 11, entitled “Unless we spike military spending —...