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BECKY MAUPIN: Overwhelmed Doesn’t Mean Ungrateful

If you’re on social media for any amount of time, you pretty quickly see that there is mixed content. Some of it is positive and gives you really good...

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: Approaching the Longest Night

Yes, you’re right—if you’ve even noticed—that this space has been neglected for some weeks now,...

MIKE KEELER: Here’s A Little Challenge For You

Look down and search on the ground for a stone. A very specific stone. It needs to be almost completely flat, like the kind...

SCOTT DREYER: Trial Regarding Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax Began This Week

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past six years or so you have heard much about the "Trump-Russia Collusion" and...

SCOTT DREYER: A Tale Of Two Protests

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,...

SCOT BELLAVIA: My Family Plays Rummy

I hear families take a week ?to play a full game of Monopoly—if the family doesn’t break apart by Wednesday. My family, however, has...

SCOTT DREYER: Remember Victory In Europe (VE) Day, May 8 or 9

Yesterday while many in the US were celebrating Mother's Day on May 8, it was also the anniversary of an important date in history:...

Bonsack Thursday Noon Prayer Group Extends Invitation

As reported in The Roanoke Star, the first Thursday of May is, by joint resolution of Congress and signed into law by Democrat President...