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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:...

We Are Still A Nation of Laws

This column is not about the prosecution or the defense, nor about race, religion, ethnicity or politics. It is about coming together as a...

Some Things Just Shouldn’t Be Allowed – Dennis Garvin MD

Lucky Garvin's brother Dennis is a Urologist practicing in Salem who also possesses his brother's great gifts for writing, teaching and healing. This column...

82 Percent of Lightning Strikes Are Males (Imagine that.)

According to the National Weather Service, fishing is dangerous. A recent study examined the 238 lightning deaths in America over the past seven years...

A Grand Rebounding of Nature

Years ago, I lived for a brief time in Steubenville, Ohio, a city steeped in history and tradition. At the time, it was also...

Do We Want to be Happy or Angry?

The July 8-15 issue of Time magazine had a cover story about Happiness.  An extraordinarily convoluted maze of hurdles one must clear in order...

The Success and Waste of Student Loans and Grants

During an interview, David Farr, CEO of Emerson Electric commented, “We’ve got a whole thrust in this country of “Everyone goes to college. Wrong –...