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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 to become the next New York City mayor on November 4. The charismatic candidate...

BOB BROWN: What is Real?

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

FRED FIRST: Spiders I Have Worn

I see now how often what I chose to write about in my haphazard weekly...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Does Putin Consider Ukraine Russian Territory? If So, U.S. Negotiations Are In Trouble

President Putin, aka Vladimir the Terrible, is a second-world money-mongering autocrat, who commands the largest...

ANDY PITZER: Not-So-Trivial Geography

The absence of geography courses in American elementary and secondary school curriculums these days is...

What It’s Like to Run a One Hundred Mile Race

As in one hundred miles in one massive go, not over a six-month period. And not a relay race, but individuals each running the...

True Confessions of A Wannabe Indian

What follows is a story I refrained from telling for years. The occasion for my reticence is that the tale is somewhat embarrassing to...

Atheism and Adolescent Rebellion

Until the age of 38, I was an atheist.  Then, the proper application of modern science persuaded me that my atheism was a nonintellectual...

Beware The Bias of News

Years ago, when advertising cigarettes on TV was allowed, Viceroy had an arresting series of commercials with the theme of doing something for which...

Haphazard Immigration Is Capricious Sovereignty

The immigration debate is about much more than people moving between countries. Immigration is about illegal entry into a foreign country. Immigration is about...

Pursue No Woman to Her Tears

This phrase came from a poem entitled "The Honor Men" by James Hay, Jr. who graduated from the University of Virginia in 1903. The...