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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 filmmaker, and multimillionaire Democrat activist Rob Reiner, 78, cold-bloodedly murdered both his parents with...

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...

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...

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...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Renaming The Gulf Of Mexico Is A Mistake

Hurricane Helene last September 24 quickly developed from a tropical storm into a Category 4 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico within two days....

DAWN CUSTALOW: A Roanoke mountain and a winter wonderland

A Virginia version of “Almost Heaven” is where my family calls home - Mason’s Knob Mountain in the Blue Ridge of Roanoke. Not just...

BOB BROWN: The Empty Self

John Locke (1632-1704), an English philosopher, Oxford Don, and physician, was widely regarded as one of the influential thinkers of the Enlightenment.  His theory...

FRED FIRST: For the Time: Being – An Invitation to Be Still

If all who wander are not lost, neither lazy are all who sit, still and quiet, in the woods. Simple stillness can be a filter...