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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...

More Than A Week’s Worth of Sadness

This has been a week that will long be remembered for tragedies on many fronts. The Arab/Israeli conflict escalated for the nth time. Are...

Ask The Nature Lady – Black Rat Snakes

One day I was pulling out some plants that were growing under my Bottlebrush Buckeye (Aesculus parviflora). This shrub grows eight to twelve feet...

The Cut of Remorse

It doesn’t take a lot of woods to turn someone into an outdoorsy type. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great to have tens of thousands...

Of Canteens and Christmas Truces

There is always a peril which attends the telling of a story one has heard; is it true or counterfeit, partially true yet containing...

A Modern Modest Proposal

In earlier commentaries, I had bemoaned the failure of feminism to bring any degree of civility and restraint into public discourse.  Female activists had...

Rising to Incompetence

Located about an hour’s drive north of San Diego in Riverside County, California, the city of Murrieta is home to more than 100,000 people....