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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 and 9. Tens of thousands of unarmed protesters were shot dead in an indiscriminate slaughter...

FRED FIRST: Missouri’s Capitol City: First-Time Tourist

I could not possibly do justice to my first visit a half hour south of...

BOB BROWN: The Triumph of Terrible Feelings Over Judgment

Today, our way of life is dominated by powerful, fast-moving, extreme emotions — especially anger,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: President Trump Owes The UK An Apology

I read a disturbing and disquieting article in the New York Times on January 23 entitled,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) Is a Defeatist

I read an article in the New York Post by Emily Crane on January 26 entitled,...

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....

SERWAN ZANGANA: We Have Until Nov. 8 To Clean Up City Council

As we have a few days until the election which is on Tuesday, November 8, it's not too late to make a change. If...

SCOTT DREYER: Roanoke Dems/GOP Decry Violence, As We All Should

A Nov. 1 Roanoke Times piece "Roanoke Democratic Committee statement calls for need of fair elections" emphasizes, yes, the need for fair elections. All...

SCOT BELAVIA: Riffing On The Pandemic

Remember when we were hopeful about what the pandemic could do for humanity? It was just for a week or two, a sliver of...
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