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ANDY PITZER: No Offseason

“It’s the time of the season.” This pertains to and will make the most sense for those whose locale has four separate seasons, those who do not have them and...

BOB BROWN: “I Remember World War II”

On December 7, 1941, my sister, Edith, eight years my senior, and I were in...

FRED FIRST: Go West At Last, Old Man

Decades of frugality have come abruptly to an end. I have made the choice to...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Bring Back The War Department

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a prescient and heartfelt speech in Chautauqua, New York, on...

FRED FIRST: Changing of the Guard

The theme for the Lenoir Words Writers Group this month is AUTUMN. And since I...

BOB BROWN: Wait Patiently Amidst The Unrest – And Vote

John A.G. Davis (1802-1840), son of John Staige Davis, UVA Professor of Law, was one of the youngest faculty members at 28.  The Board...

SERWAN ZANGANA: Voting for Donald Trump Is In The Best Interest of America

Is the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu crossing the boundaries in responding to Hamas and Hezbollah attacks? Or he is a solid Prime Minister,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump Is No Hitler

To compare former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, who was the third greatest mass murderer in human history after Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, is...

SCOTT DREYER: Democrat CEO Cites 33 Reasons He’s Voting Trump

Bill Ackman is an American billionaire hedge fund manager who is the founder and chief executive officer of Pershing Square Capital Management, a hedge...

MORGAN GRIFFITH: You Have A Right To Know

Some work in DC does not get the attention of national and local media outlets. At the beginning of 118th Congress, I was asked to...

BOB BROWN: Deliver Us

On May 4,1970, at Ohio’s Kent State University, political and cultural turmoil over the Vietnam War, not dissimilar from today’s student and faculty hatred...