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BOB BROWN: Journey to the Promised Land of Health

Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr., is the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. He is a member of the Kennedy family, a...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Iran Is Playing Trump Like A Chump

Since Ayatollah Khomeini seized power on February 11, 1979, after the exile of the Shah of Iran the...

FRED FIRST: Lonesome Highway: Hurry Up and Wait

If you don't know where you're going, how will you know when you get there? We...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The CBS Evening News Made Me Cry A River Of Tears

I was watching the CBS Evening News, co-hosted by John Dickerson and Maurice Dubois on April 17,...

DAWN CUSTALOW: American Travelers – A Cautionary Tale

My cultural underpinnings were first rooted in my Indian reservation in Virginia, yet my world...

Lifting The Tractor of Ego

This is more a memory than a story. It has no lesson, no display of wisdom. It’s merely something that occurred during my medical...

A Certainty About Things Absent

Years ago, while studying philosophy and theology in an Order of Franciscan Friars, I came across a striking reference to Hugh of Saint Victor...

Jobs to Fill; Change Your Skill!

A close friend needed an additional administrative employee at the company where he worked in Maryland. Interviewing candidates, he decided on a lady that...

Panhandling

It’s interesting to think about how words came into being. Here’s one that is rarely used today: mendicant. Ask someone what he does for...

The Thing About Trains… It Doesn’t Matter Where They’re Going

 . . .  What matters is deciding to get on." I laughed out loud when I heard this line spoken by the conductor in "The...

Jeopardy

Here’s a Jeopardy question for you: The category is “Housing;” the answer is “Girls in Crisis.” The question is “Who is Florence Crittenton?” It’s...