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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...

Gone Green

A broad effort to keep our planet alive is burning up planetary life. Make sense? Not to some researchers. Three southern universities recently evaluated the...

Of Tarantulas and Scorpions

Tarantulas and scorpions get a bad rap.  The stuff of nightmares, their Hollywood portrayals are never beneficent.  Everyone knows they are lethal. Tarantulas are large,...

A Rare Opportunity to View a Very Rare Fish— The Atlantic Sturgeon

The Atlantic Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhynchus) is the largest and longest-lived aquatic organism in the Atlantic rivers of North America. In colonial times, sturgeon could...

Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?

Decades ago, ago that was the opening gambit for the panhandler; inflation has upped the ante, but not altered the range of response. What...

The Time Has Come for The Hunter-Gatherer Burka.

The cops had me surrounded. I was lathered in sweat, my hands were stained with a dark liquid, and a yet unidentified substance was...

The Telemarketing Nightmare

When you pick up the phone a chirpy voice announces, “This is an important call about your credit card. There is no problem, but...