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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 about this tendency. The biblical story of David and Goliath, reported 3000 years ago,...

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,...

A Life Well-Lived: Shirley Padgett Lester (1947-2025)

Shirley Padgett Lester of Vinton went to her heavenly reward October 4. Below is the...

DEVOTIONAL: What’s Your Time Horizon?

This was the word of the Lord which He spoke to Jehu, “Your sons will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is A Foreign Policy Lightweight

I can vividly remember when I was seven years old visiting the outdoor Hershey Park Zoo during a balmy, cloudless sunny July afternoon in...

DEVOTIONAL: Perspective Matters

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. - Colossians 3:2 Just now I went to visit a neighbor for the first time....

DEVOTIONAL: Be A Servant Leader

Then they spoke to him, saying, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them and grant them their...

DEVOTIONAL: How To Beat Burn-Out

Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.” He looked...

MKE KEELER: The Right People Were There

It was dumb luck the three of them were there when it happened. (Editor's note: Or was it?) Kira Turner is a graduate student at...