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FRED FIRST: Peregrinations of a *BoZo

I have a few bits of biological blarney to pass along before I focus later today on packing for Ghost Ranch. I woke up earlier than my intention this...

ANDY PITZER: No Offseason

“It’s the time of the season.” This pertains to and will make the most sense for...

BOB BROWN: “I Remember World War II”

On December 7, 1941, my sister, Edith, eight years my senior, and I were in...

FRED FIRST: Go West At Last, Old Man

Decades of frugality have come abruptly to an end. I have made the choice to...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Bring Back The War Department

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a prescient and heartfelt speech in Chautauqua, New York, on...

We Should Give Thanks for The United States Military Every Day

The definition of the U.S military will not end in one word or a few sentences as such a definition is connected with a...

MELINDA MYERS: New Ways to Display Poinsettias This Holiday Season

Nothing says the holidays like a poinsettia. This year, try some new ways to display this festive plant. Poinsettias are available in a variety of...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Mayo Clinic In Rochester, Minnesota: Caveat Emptor

There is a medieval Latin phrase, caveat emptor, or let the buyer beware. I spent almost three months at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,...

DEVOTIONAL: God Guides Us Step By Step

Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do. --Acts 9:6 (NIV) Do you ever feel lost...

MIKE KEELER: Colorful Agrarian Symbol or Sign of The Witch?

OK, let's put Halloween behind us, enough with all that Druid-inspired mumbo-jumbo . . . Or . . . Take a drive through Pennsylvania farm country....

SCOTT DREYER: Joe Cobb’s Solution To Gun Violence – “Let Them Eat Steak…Or Swordfish…Or Trout…”

According to legend, Marie Antoinette, the queen of King Louis XVI of France, allegedly asked why the peasants were rioting during the French Revolution....