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ROBERT L. MARONIC: The First Lady Of New York City Is A Vile Anti-Semite – Part I

I read a despondent article in TheNew York Post entitled, “Mamdani’s Wife Rama Duwaji Liked Post Calling Oct. 7 Hamas Rapes Of Israelis A 'Mass Hoax': Report.”The afflicting article was co-written by Rich Calder and Doree Lewak and...

BOB BROWN: Peace of Mind, Part III: The Secure Attachment

In the conclusion of this series, I find myself looking back at a specific decade...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The US Is Already An Empire – Part II

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat observed in a highly accurate op-ed entitled “The American Empire in Retreat,”...

FRED FIRST: There And Back Again

RECAP: I would be able to visit southwest Virginia again--home for almost 40 years, and...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The US Is Already An Empire – Part I

I read a misinformed article in the New York Times on February 27, which was written by Edward Wong. The article’s title was “Trump’s Foreign Policy:...

The Election—Please Vote

November 4 is the “off-year election.” We all know what that means but I would hesitate to call any election the “on-year election.” That...

Misadventures + Incompetence = Lost in the Labyrinth

With the emergence of the Ebola dilemma, the cumulative failures of the Obama administration are on display. The President and his amateur planners, problem...

A Call To Childhood

I heard this expression recently while speaking with my parents' long-time financial advisor, John Wannen.  He used it to describe the life he leads...

A Handshake For The Century

Sometimes you are a witness to history, and sometimes you step up and grab it by the hand. George Shuba was by any measure a...

Along The Crooked Road

It really is crooked, that western portion of Virginia's US Route 58, tightly weaves through the mountains and hollows of Grayson County and on...

Social Media….Not!

I just spent the weekend with a bunch of Boy Scouts and leaders in the Greenbrier Valley, camping and riding the Greenbrier Trail for...