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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Bill Clinton’s Shameful Congratulations Of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani – Part I

Far-left Democratic Socialist and Queens three-term assemblyman, Zohran Mamdani, won the Democratic primary on June 24, possibly to become the next New York City mayor on November 4. The charismatic candidate...

BOB BROWN: What is Real?

Often, an old song plays in my mind. I cannot identify the situations that bring...

FRED FIRST: Spiders I Have Worn

I see now how often what I chose to write about in my haphazard weekly...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Does Putin Consider Ukraine Russian Territory? If So, U.S. Negotiations Are In Trouble

President Putin, aka Vladimir the Terrible, is a second-world money-mongering autocrat, who commands the largest...

ANDY PITZER: Not-So-Trivial Geography

The absence of geography courses in American elementary and secondary school curriculums these days is...

LIZA FIELD: A Gift of The Sea

It’s beach season along the old Atlantic seaboard, drawing crowds of us inlanders east like our creeks and rivers. We’re heading for the Bay,...

DENNIS GARVIN: Amy The Human Firelfy

As a child, I was captivated by fireflies:  the way they danced and spun, disappearing from view only to reappear just slightly away from...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: What Do We Expect?

It’s a comfortable feeling when you have an anticipation of what may happen. It gives one a sense of control, although that can surely...

CAROLINE WATKINS: Humble Pie

I looked up this expression in a book of word and phrase origins I had given my father and then “acquired" after his death. ...

H. BRUCE RINKER: Pollution Has A Brand!

When Mexican businessman Alfredo Gandur inspected my photographs of marine plastics pollution along the coastline of the Yucatán Peninsula, including close-ups of manufacturer labels,...

DICK BAYNTON: Leading From Behind is Craven

Excluding conspiracy theories, it is probable that at least part of the world’s problems is because of our strategy of ‘leading from behind.’ The...