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LUCKY GARVIN: Be With Me While I Die

We bloom, like the tiniest flower, then we move on... I think that I will always define tenderness by those moments. Those moments, I watched a wife caress her dying husband,...

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

Unfortunately, Mamdani, if elected, would have complete power to appoint the police commissioner and near-total...

BOB BROWN: Feeling Helpless in America

You will find me among those who want “instant gratification,” an uncomplimentary way of saying,...

BECKY MAUPIN: Mom Brain Isn’t All in Your Head

The number of times I’ve misplaced my keys and phone is embarrassing. So many times...

FRED FIRST: Poems, Prayers and Prompts

WHERE WE ARE FROM The answer, when someone asks where you are “from” might be to...

Reviving an Old American Valentine

There’s a sweetheart of an American tradition that has mostly vanished. It’s called “love of country.” But “country,” here, means more than campaign talk. At...

The State of Black Fatherhood: Parenting Behind Bars

At age eleven Imani’s world would drastically change forever. “I had just came home from school and the house phone rang.” Her father called to...

The Story of Commodore Duck

His story went like this: he wanted to sell his boat and buy another, so he spent the day tuning the motor of his...

The Muddle East

The ‘Arab Spring’ was supposed to wring all the evil from the Middle East, install generous and brilliant new leaders to the ‘rogue’ nations...

Addicted To Certainty

I found myself saying that I am this very thing to a dear friend after asking her for some advice in a particularly troubling...

The Problem With ‘Focus’ And Special Interest Groups

Our country has always had to deal with special interest groups.  In the Revolutionary War, it was Patriots versus Loyalists.  In the new republic...