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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...

DICK BAYNTON: The Folly of Superficial Solutions

Many hold the National Rifle Association, a private organization, accountable for the proliferation of guns that kill people. Should we also hold the American...

DICK BAYNTON: Political Discourse has Become Digression and Distortion

Over the past few months I have read comments in newspapers, magazines and on the Internet suggesting that Republicans lack "moral integrity." The various...

LUCKY GARVIN: And Then There Were Five

Eight years ago, a two-year-old female Doberman was found walking aimlessly about, and was brought to the SPCA. She had been abandoned. The SPCA...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: I Cannot Tell a Lie

Perhaps it happened on a boring day at Mt. Vernon.  Nothing to do but wander around the plantation and watch the slaves work; not...

DICK BAYNTON: The Dimensions of Deception

Recently the front pages of newspapers, TV screens, radio news reports and talk programs have been immersed in the surprise information that $400 million...

DICK BAYNTON: A New Standard for Crony Capitalism

There’s a good chance that many of us have heard of "crony capitalism.’" There’s about an equal chance that some of us have read about...