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SCOT BELLAVIA: Am I Proud to Be an American?

How proud are you to be an American? I posted that question on Facebook a few years ago on the Fourth of July. I wasn’t asking how proud or embarrassed...

BOB BROWN: “Portraits of the Human Person”

On the night of June 21, 2025, President Donald Trump said all seven B2 Bombers...

BECKY MAUPIN: The After Bedtime Search

Picture this: You manage to get everyone fed and the dinner aftermath cleaned up. Then...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Israel’s Second Sum Of All Fears

I first heard about a dirty bomb in early September 1993 when an IBM coworker,...

BOB BROWN: What Happened to Happiness?

We can quibble about the origin, even the definition or meaning of “happiness,” but I’m...

BARBARA LEACH: COVID-19 Lessons from the Garden

These times are unlike anything in recent history and have challenged us to reevaluate and reinvent ourselves.  Those of us who are already gardeners...

CONGRESSMAN MORGAN GRIFFITH: Congress Amid the Coronavirus

The coronavirus outbreak has upended many of the ways we go about our lives. As a Member of Congress, I believe it must not...

STUART REVERCOMB: Paving The Road To A Different Kind of Hell

“And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to...

MIKE KEELER: Pandemic Special – A Story of Dark Times and Enlightenment

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born just outside Madrid in 1547 - about a half century after the discovery of the New World -...

LUCKY GARVIN: One Wintry Morning [from some years back]

Beyond doubt this has been a strange, an unpredictable season. ‘Tis the first day of Spring, and we’ve three inches of snow on the...

H. BRUCE RINKER: At First, I Tried to Like Him

At first, I tried to like Donald John Trump, a game show host who ended each episode with a grotty acridity: “You’re fired!” After all,...