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SCOT BELLAVIA: God in the Library

Talking to strangers about God is a muscle I don’t work very often. But I try to take the opportunity when it comes up. A few weeks ago, I was...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Antisemite Zohran Mamdani Will Be An Economic Disaster For New York City – Part IV

As Gabrielle Fahmy wrote in the Post, "in its most recent platform, the group blasts...

BOB BROWN: The Smell of Combat

Consider the psychological cost incurred by the men and women in our military. They give...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Antisemite Zohran Mamdani Will Be An Economic Disaster For New York City – Part III

I read an article in the New York Post on August 24 written by Gabrielle Fahmy entitled,...

SCOTT DREYER: VA Voter Guide

This is the voter guide from the Faith & Freedom Coalition. As I've done door knocking...

BOB BROWN: Midnight of the Soul

There is a time when our situation seems too much to bear. It may be physical, mental, or spiritual agony. Our life may have...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump Is Wrong To Defund The Voice of America

One of my earliest childhood memories was listening to the BBC during the evening on my father’s Grundig shortwave radio with him in 1963....

SCOT BELLAVIA: On Reading

For all their differences, books by writers about writing agree on one thing: To be a writer, you must be a reader. So, I...

FRED FIRST: Lonesome Highway: The On-Ramp

Alzheimer’s cruelty is told only in part by the time it takes to show itself and be named. Some sources say that the first anatomical...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: A $1 Trillion Defense Budget Could Soon Bankrupt The U.S.

Rich Lowry, the editor of the National Review, wrote a column in the New York Post on April 11, entitled “Unless we spike military spending —...

FRED FIRST: The Bitter-sweet Memory of Smells

This bit of writing (which was also a radio essay on WVTF) comes from February 2007. And why, just now: I proposed “Smells and...