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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...

BECKY MAUPIN: Riding the Wave of Back-to-School

Ready or not, here it comes: back-to-school season. Just like an ocean wave that so many of us got to play in this summer,...

BOB BROWN: “These Forever Children…”

The meaning of a child’s life is never more painfully appreciated than when the child is murdered. The brutal killing of four young college...

FRED FIRST: Essence of Summer: Fireflies

The senses and summers past. What did summer feel like twenty years ago? We had chickens. The pasture was rebounding from the droughts of...

LUCKY GARVIN: Be With Me While I Die

We bloom, like the tiniest flower, then we move on... I think that I will always define tenderness by those moments. Those moments, I watched a...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Bill Clinton’s Shameful Congratulations Of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani – Part II

Unfortunately, Mamdani, if elected, would have complete power to appoint the police commissioner and near-total control over the public school system. That could be a...

BOB BROWN: Feeling Helpless in America

You will find me among those who want “instant gratification,” an uncomplimentary way of saying, “I know what I want and I want it...