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RANDY HUFF: Know When to Hold Your Peace

“Why don't you say your piece?” I asked my friend. “It need not be public. Explain your concern. Open up in an email or private message.” “Need not be public?!”...

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...

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...

Both Feet Planted Firmly in Mid Air

I heard this expression on a podcast discussing moral relativism, and it caused me to think of the term, head in the clouds- you...

Affordable Care Act Anything But Affordable

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act became the ‘law of the land’ on March 23, 2010. Well, partly. It has been changed several...

No Way Out But Through

I thought about this as I was recently driving back to Charlottesville through a wicked storm in which heavy rain caused my van to...

Viewing Things Differently

Have you ever been trapped into a particular way of thinking or acting because you lacked the imagination to think differently?  Maybe with a...

Life Evolves / Revolves in Seconds and Minutes

Somewhere in my library, God knoweth not where, is a book of pictures which intends to show the expanse of our physical universe from...

Prime Time For Buck Viewing

By October, White-tailed Deer in Virginia have changed from their beautiful summer coats of reddish brown to drab winter coats of brownish gray.  By...