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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...

Thor’s Second Chance

Several weeks ago, Sabrina and I witnessed a twisted irony. But before I tell you what happened, a brief word of preface: There was...

Thou Shall Not Hate

FIRST READING JAMES 1:17-27/ GOSPEL MARK 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23  Watching the tragic events unfold at Smith Mountain Lake, in which two of our local television reporters...

Enough of Reaction!

In June I wrote an article after the Charleston massacre. Go to roanokestar.com, enter Hollingsworth guns in the search box and you can find...

Overnight on Deer Island

It had been a while since I had spent a night out camping solo, and I was itching to do so, especially after my...

American Foreign Policy Needs Some Adult Supervision – Now

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton presented a ‘Reset’ Button to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in March 2009, not long after the Obama...

Forgiveness Without Borders

This title is a tweaking of one I started with: Trust Without Borders, which came from a song I recently heard in church. Without...