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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:...

“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,...

The Pony Express

It’s been a while since I thought about the history of mail delivery. That any letter ever reached its destination was miraculous in previous...