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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 stockpile of nuclear warheads (5,449) in the world. Like his ally Islamic-fascist Iran, oil...

ANDY PITZER: Not-So-Trivial Geography

The absence of geography courses in American elementary and secondary school curriculums these days is...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest On July 4th Is An Ode To Gluttony

Joey Chestnut, 41, who is 6’1”, surprisingly only 230 pounds, and a personification of gluttony, won...

BOB BROWN: Lost and Found

All of us encounter loss. The meaning we attribute to loss influences our response to...

FRED FIRST: Where You’re From

In the very early years of writing, I was exposed to a poem called “Where...

Wanna Claw My Way Up To Middle Management

Why I thought of a Monster.com commercial from the late 90's during a devotion, I have no idea. The free associations in my mind...

“Invasive Plants”: A Book Review and Commentary

Even though I disagree with the premise that there are “invasive” plants, I must give high praise to the revised and updated second edition...

My First Kiss

From many years ago . . .   My thirteen-year-old son Cailan wanted to ask me some questions about, well…you know... girls and stuff. How...

Prostates and The Fickle Finger Of Fate

As a urologist, I perform a lot of male screening for prostate cancer.  Most men (except perhaps for us Citadel graduates) know that this...

Government Of, By and For The Government.”

The arrogance of government is now showing through with blinding glare. The ‘rollout’ of the Affordable Care Act is a defining failure of an...

When Life Was Simple

Do you remember when that was true?  The correct answer is that it was never simple.  It seemed so for a variety of reasons,...