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BOB BROWN: KILLING TRUTH

The Declaration of Independence cites God four times—as "Nature's God," "Creator," "Supreme Judge of the world," and"divine Providence"—to support the colonists' claims to independence and rights. The different references...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Charlie Kirk’s P*** Poor Security at Utah Valley University in Orem

I always enjoyed listening to Charlie Kirk on a local radio station in Roanoke, Virginia, after...

FRED FIRST: Peregrinations of a *BoZo

I have a few bits of biological blarney to pass along before I focus later...

ANDY PITZER: No Offseason

“It’s the time of the season.” This pertains to and will make the most sense for...

BOB BROWN: “I Remember World War II”

On December 7, 1941, my sister, Edith, eight years my senior, and I were in...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: A Little Common Sense, Please

I can’t just keep quiet about Las Vegas.  Everything that can be said about gun control has already been said—many times over—and it has...

DICK BAYNTON: Roanoke City Jail: Self-Imposed Death Sentences

One of our readers of this column sent an E-Mail message recently pointing out that the Roanoke City Jail was reportedly where an inordinate...

Barbara Leach: Late Summer Early Fall in The Garden

By far, the diagnosis for the majority of samples that were brought in to the VCE Master Gardener Help Desk lately have been weather...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: Has It Been That Long?

Time has a way of collapsing on itself in retrospect.  It has been more than half century since the turbulent 1960s spilled out into...

Dick Baynton: Education is Located in ‘The Swamp’

As mentioned in last week’s column, education is the foundation of free and creative thought and the source of fresh ideas and concepts that...

Lucky Garvin: So Much More Than A Game

Even in a time when electronic diversions hold dominion over so many of us, the board game ‘Monopoly’ may be remembered. Its beginnings stretch...

BOB BROWN: KILLING TRUTH