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BOB BROWN: Decoding the New “Structure of Feeling”

This is the time to marshal up hope for the New Year. Hope is wanting something to happen or be true, with a reasonable expectation that it will, but...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The Heroism Of Ahmed Al-Ahmed At Bondi Beach In Sydney, Australia

Not all Muslims are bad people. In fact, most Muslims are good and decent people....

DAWN CUSTALOW: THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

For all who wait For all who hunger For all who’ve prayed For all who wonder Behold... Christmas is...

SCOTT DREYER: Christmas Through the Eyes of a Child

As adults, it is important to think of what messages we are giving the children...

FRED FIRST: Birds of a Feather

We were invited to join some geologist-birder friends for an outing last week that would...

The Arrogance of Autocracy

Recently when I turned on the TV morning news, there was Col. Daniel King, US Army announcing that Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl had been charged...

An Uncertain Place

Things change abruptly, plans fail, dreams are diminished, bad things happen. Without warning. And definitely without our permission. In an instance, everything that made sense...

VWCC — A Local Jewel

Colonial Avenue is a major thoroughfare that bisects the campus of Virginia Western Community College. It has not always been so. It used to...

The Progressive Treadmill to Perpetual Poverty

The liberal issues of inequality, the ‘war on women’, LBJ’s Great Society, increased entitlements and ‘tax the rich’ are all progressive strides on the...

Best Not Goof Off When It Comes to Clean Water

March 22 is World Water Day. It’s the biggest splash you’ve never heard of. Why? Perhaps because it’s also National Goof-Off Day - a good...

Remembering Behind The Silence

Of the countless symphony concerts I have attended in my lifetime, most have faded from memory. Behind the Silence, performed March 15 at the...