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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...

Alien Children: Victims of Degenerate Politics

President Obama met for 90 minutes with Presidents Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras, Otto Pérez Molina of Guatemala and Salvador Sánchez Cerén of El...

Medical Education Revisited

Although long since retired from the practice of medicine, I have remained interested in how new physicians are trained. This has been more in...

Just Keep Paddling

I thought of Dory's line from Finding Nemo, "Just keep swimming. . . just keep swimming" in preparation for this piece and gave it...

City Council Fails to Listen to Residents In Cell Tower Approval

Here are some thoughts on the approval by Roanoke City Council for Pegasus Tower Company to construct a cell tower at 1809 Franklin Rd SW,...

Leaving Candyland

Humans want the sweet life. It’s an endearing, useful instinct that has kept our kind like nectar-seeking bees alive through the ages. But today, our...

How Did My Granddad Do It?

I'm deep into what we dentists call a crown preparation. The subject tooth is the upper left second molar, aka tooth number 15. The...