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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 control over the public school system. That could be a complete disaster for New York...

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...

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...

The Texas Tavern: Endurance Counts

This past weekend the venerable Texas Tavern celebrated its 85th anniversary. I don’t think any other local eating establishment can match that for continuous...

The Superbug of Fatalism

Vaccines or none, human resistance is going haywire. So it appears from health headlines. Epidemic diseases, morphing superbugs, allergies to everything - eggs, meat,...

The Visit

It was the first day of December last year she came to visit. It was the sixteenth day of February she left… Cemone. Perhaps you...

Federal Budget Proposal: Ruinous or Realistic

President Obama who usually misses required dates set out in a 1921 law to submit a national budget to Congress recently proposed $1 trillion...

Nobody’s Savior

Sometimes you've got to let people fall on their face, scrape their knee, break a few bones, suffer an unrecoverable injury and you not...

A More Perfect Constitution

That’s the title of a recent book by Larry Sabato, the premier political pundit from Mr. Jefferson’s Academical Village. It came to mind last...