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ROBERT L. MARONIC: When Is Trump’s Promise To Iran That “Help Is On The Way” Finally Going To Happen?

There was a horrific, chaotic carnage in the streets of Iran during a nationwide protest on January 8 and 9. Tens of thousands of unarmed protesters were shot dead in an indiscriminate slaughter...

FRED FIRST: Missouri’s Capitol City: First-Time Tourist

I could not possibly do justice to my first visit a half hour south of...

BOB BROWN: The Triumph of Terrible Feelings Over Judgment

Today, our way of life is dominated by powerful, fast-moving, extreme emotions — especially anger,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: President Trump Owes The UK An Apology

I read a disturbing and disquieting article in the New York Times on January 23 entitled,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) Is a Defeatist

I read an article in the New York Post by Emily Crane on January 26 entitled,...

BOB BROWN: The Empty Self

John Locke (1632-1704), an English philosopher, Oxford Don, and physician, was widely regarded as one of the influential thinkers of the Enlightenment.  His theory...

FRED FIRST: For the Time: Being – An Invitation to Be Still

If all who wander are not lost, neither lazy are all who sit, still and quiet, in the woods. Simple stillness can be a filter...

SCOT BELLAVIA: First Week With the Third-Born

Day 1: (At the hospital) These pangs are worse than I remember. I am never doing this to my wife again. Heh, as if avoidance...

DENNIS GARVIN: Burnout Antidote

We hear more every day about burnout. I see it in the practice of medicine. One can point out some obvious reasons: Loss of...

BOB BROWN: The Healing Power of Kindness and Truth

"This patient is uncooperative, has barely spoken since hospital admission two weeks ago, and is at a high risk of escape and suicide.” The conference...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Congressional Democratic Opposition To DOGE is Financial Lunacy

There has only been one modern economic calamity in the U.S. worse than the Great Recession of 2008. That was the Great Depression of...
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