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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Annex Ukraine Now

Steve Witkoff, acting as personal envoy for President Trump, first met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Russo-Ukrainian War on February 23. His most recent meeting, accompanied by Jared Kushner,...

BECKY MAUPIN: Overwhelmed Doesn’t Mean Ungrateful

If you’re on social media for any amount of time, you pretty quickly see that...

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...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Iran Is Playing Trump Like A Chump

Since Ayatollah Khomeini seized power on February 11, 1979, after the exile of the Shah of Iran the previous month, the fanatical Shiite Muslim clerics in Tehran...

FRED FIRST: Lonesome Highway: Hurry Up and Wait

If you don't know where you're going, how will you know when you get there? We had no idea where this day would place the...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The CBS Evening News Made Me Cry A River Of Tears

I was watching the CBS Evening News, co-hosted by John Dickerson and Maurice Dubois on April 17, about a food-insecure family in bucolic Wallingford, Connecticut, which...

DAWN CUSTALOW: American Travelers – A Cautionary Tale

My cultural underpinnings were first rooted in my Indian reservation in Virginia, yet my world expanded from those years of living in a tight-knit...

FRED FIRST: Fragments: Late April

EARTH DAY I neglected to devote any words to the event this year for the first time since 2003. The notion, this particular bizarro year,...

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...