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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Annex Ukraine Now

Steve Witkoff, acting as personal envoy for President Trump, first met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Russo-Ukrainian War on February 23. His most recent meeting, accompanied by Jared Kushner,...

BECKY MAUPIN: Overwhelmed Doesn’t Mean Ungrateful

If you’re on social media for any amount of time, you pretty quickly see that...

BOB BROWN: When the Underdog Bites Has Rabies, and a Mean Owner

We have a strong human urge to identify with the “underdog.” There is nothing new...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Phase Two Of Trump‘s Peace Plan In The Gaza Strip Doomed To Fail? – Part II

Unfortunately, Trump’s present ceasefire as of October 9 is analogous to the armistice signed between...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Phase Two Of Trump‘s Peace Plan In The Gaza Strip Doomed To Fail? – Part I

Phase one of Trump‘s twenty-point peace plan in the Gaza Strip, which began on October...

FRED FIRST: Nothing Gold… Autumn Is The Season for Letting Go

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to...

SCOTT DREYER: Life Lessons From “Sookie”

Dale Grgurich is a friend who recently recently lost his beloved dog and hiking buddy, Sookie. Here is his story and some "life lessons"...

SCOTT DREYER: A Surprise Attack on Israel . . . And The Band Played On . . .

Last Saturday, as many of us here in Southwest and Central Virginia were enjoying the start to a beautiful October weekend, we got news...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The UAW Strike Demand Of A Thirty-Two-Hour Workweek Is Absurd

In 1978 as a Roanoke College student I had a full-time summer job working as a union machinist for the American Can Company in...

DEVOTIONAL: B.U.S.Y. (4)

There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God. --Hebrews 4:9 (NIV) Do you ever feel frustrated that there "just aren't enough hours in...

SCOTT DREYER: Joe Cobb, Peter Volosin, Luke Priddy Tell Roanoke College Women Swimmers: “Shut Up And Obey The Males!”

According to my calendar, October 6 is "National Diversity Day." To quote Joe Biden, "Not a joke!" (I could also quote Biden with "travedy," "trueinternationalunderpressure,"...