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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,...

JAMES FINCK: The Equal Rights Amendment – Through Thick and Thin

If you are watching more TV than normal, then you may be seeing ads for FX’s upcoming miniseries called "Mrs. America." The show is...

STUART REVERCOMB: The Governor Is An Idiot

I have never titled a column in such a manner and normally don’t cast out such “inflammatory” statements – period. But seriously, how else...

STEVE “DOC” TROXEL: Peace in the Midst of Pandemic

We fear the coronavirus for the same reason we fear anything: we can’t control it, we don’t know what will happen because of it,...

MICHAEL RYAN: Who We Really Are

Over the past month and a half, we've all been deluged by the onslaught of increasingly graphic images, shockingly grim statistics, and unsettling tales...

MIKE KELLER: The Story of The Very Unlucky Penny

Sometime long ago, it must have fallen out of someone's pocket near the top of our front stairs. It probably rolled around on the...

LUCKY GARVIN: Home Sweet Home

A tree was cut down; momma squirrel fled in terror leaving two surviving offspring. They were bought to Sabrina. She checked them over.  They...