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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...

BOB BROWN: The Lifestyle You Live Influences Your Brain

COL Tate, Chief of Chaplains at a military installation, was referred to Mental Health for a Command Evaluation. No one wants to be commanded...

FRED FIRST: Turtle-Rabbits in Mid-Missouri

I saw my first three-dimensional nine-banded armadillo this week. We saw them 50 years ago, only as we neared Biloxi, on the coast (of...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump’s Deal For Ukraine’s Rare Earth Minerals Is A Big Gamble

I read a prescient and insightful column in the New York Times by Gracelin Baskaran on March 4. It was entitled, “How Trump Can Turn The Ukraine Mineral...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Ukraine’s Future Is Dismal

To say that President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance had much personal animosity toward President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on his state...

BOB BROWN: The Miracle of Life Even with Our Vulnerabilities

John Milton (1608-1674), considered the greatest poet of his time, composed his most famous work, Paradise Lost (1667), one of the greatest works of...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: What is Trump‘s Grand Strategy In Ending The Russo-Ukrainian War?

I fully understand President Trump‘s anger on February 19 in demanding economic concessions from Ukraine for the $350 billion, which Biden gave Kyiv since...