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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...

LUCKY GARVIN: Notes On The Civil War

An odd name for a war in that there was precious little civility in it. Watching the Ken Burns’ magnificent historical documentary, The Civil War,...

DENNIS GARVIN: Cock Fighting and Fake News

Cockfighting has a long history.  Humans took a natural tendency of roosters to resist any encroachment upon their perceived domain by another rooster.  Looking...

JEFF ELL: Fare Thee Well Beautiful Deer Filled Mountains

I didn’t kill a single deer this year. The last time that happened was 2002, the year we moved to Roanoke. And so now as...

MIKE KEELER: The Story of Two Motherless Children

Tyrus Wong was born in Guangdong, China in 1910. When he was nine years old, he and his father emigrated to the U.S. to...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: Attitude Is a Choice

Mark Twain is purported to have said, “I have lived a life filed with terrible things; some of them actually happened.”  Most of them...

JEFF ELL: No More Chess – My Personal Checkmate

My experiment was a complete failure. The hope was to get better at something for which I have almost no natural aptitude. Specifically, the game...