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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Why Were The U.S. Flags At Half-Mast On Saturday, April 26?

There is no phrase in the U.S. Constitution that explicitly uses the phrase "separation of church and state." However, the First Amendment, which is also known as the Establishment...

BOB BROWN: Journey to the Promised Land of Health

Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr., is the United States...

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,...

The Entitlement Morass: Determination to Dependence to Despair

It is possible to receive almost two years of unemployment checks then switch over to long-term disability. The food stamp program (SNAP) budgeted at...

F.E.A.R.

I became reacquainted with this acronym for the word "fear" in my business development class this week- the letters stand for: False Evidence Appearing...

A Pound Of Flesh

Last year, someone asked me “if I had any extra venison?”  It was an innocent question asked by a non-hunter who had never killed,...

Government is Ignominiously Satirical

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scot, born in Edinburgh in 1850; attended the Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh. Stevenson was a novelist,...

The Obamacare Enrollment Disaster – Whose Fault Is It?

When something goes awry, our first reaction is to find someone to blame.  In some cases, it is easy.  An accident may be directly...

Change – The One Thing That Is Constant

Nature is rapidly reclaiming the area where our garden flourished only five years ago. Although we enjoyed gardening, climbing those eighteen steep stone steps...