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BOB BROWN: Feeling Helpless in America

You will find me among those who want “instant gratification,” an uncomplimentary way of saying, “I know what I want and I want it now.” The “it” is mood-dependent,...

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...

BOB BROWN: What is Real?

Often, an old song plays in my mind. I cannot identify the situations that bring...

In Your Eyes

For sister-friends, brothers, cousins, daughters, sons, fathers, mothers, and people everywhere who’ve given up on love. One day somebody’s going to walk in your life...

Old Rage Reemerges

To speak the truth frankly, I am somewhat ashamed of, and surprised by, myself. Having met Cemone, [the Doberman Sabrina and I recently rescued and...

No Time For Jesus

FIRST READING GENESIS 1:1-5  SECOND READING ACTS 19:1-7 It’s all kind of crazy isn’t it? I mean life . . . The fact that we...

Education Is a Key

With all the angst abroad in the world, one wonders if there is any unifying factor that might bring about change. Everything that has...

Je Suis Charlie!

On Wednesday, 7 January 2015, people around the world were horror-struck to learn that masked gunmen had stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo,...

Student Loans Run Amuck-Design or Default?

While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has dominated the headlines, the Student Loan program entitled the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility...