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SCOTT DREYER: Christmas Through the Eyes of a Child

As adults, it is important to think of what messages we are giving the children in our lives about the meaning and celebration of Christmas. Ponder this: “Christmas Through the Eyes...

FRED FIRST: Birds of a Feather

We were invited to join some geologist-birder friends for an outing last week that would...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Mr. President, Just Shut The H*ll Up

Nick Reiner, 32, the cocaine addicted and schizophrenic son of famed Hollywood sitcom actor, prolific...

BOB BROWN: “A Multitude of the Heavenly Host”

For many years, the Hon. B. Waugh Crigler, a former federal magistrate, taught the Men’s...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Annex Ukraine Now

Steve Witkoff, acting as personal envoy for President Trump, first met with Russian President Vladimir Putin...

What To Do and Not Do With Fawns

All fawns are small and adorable, but we must resist the urge to ‘save’ them. When a fawn is born, for the first two...

LUCKY GARVIN: Dr. Culpepper

I punched in the phone number of my long-time friend, partner and punishment, Dr. Beauregard Stonewall Culpepper. He answered. I began, “Dr. Cul…” “Hold on...

JOY SYLVESTER JOHNSON: We Are Called to Unity Not Uniformity

Most people have two thumbs. I, the ouconsummate overachiever, have ten. In my mind, I still believe it I have the ability to patch the drywall,...

DICK BAYNTON: Amy Wax – Truth Teller

There may not be a single reader of this column who knows the name Amy Wax who has about as many degrees as a...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: An Emerging Emergency  

Sir William Osler, the father of modern medicine, famously said in 1884, “Humans are distinguished from all other species in their desire to take...

DICK BAYNTON: Hatred Is Not A Strategy

It is highly probable that most of us would believe that hatred could be appropriately defined by the plans and actions of Adolf Hitler...