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SCOT BELLAVIA: Am I Proud to Be an American?

How proud are you to be an American? I posted that question on Facebook a few years ago on the Fourth of July. I wasn’t asking how proud or embarrassed...

BOB BROWN: “Portraits of the Human Person”

On the night of June 21, 2025, President Donald Trump said all seven B2 Bombers...

BECKY MAUPIN: The After Bedtime Search

Picture this: You manage to get everyone fed and the dinner aftermath cleaned up. Then...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Israel’s Second Sum Of All Fears

I first heard about a dirty bomb in early September 1993 when an IBM coworker,...

BOB BROWN: What Happened to Happiness?

We can quibble about the origin, even the definition or meaning of “happiness,” but I’m...

Alas, The Things We Live With

As July rolls into August, you might suspect your friendly columnist is just too lazy to come up with new stuff. But I...

From Desolation to Determination: Detroit Seeks To Rise

Three years ago, John Hantz, a financial-services entrepreneur proposed converting 10,000 acres of vacant land in Detroit to a for-profit urban farm. This...

Summer at Boss’s Cabin

     My cousins and I would fashion fishing equipment with safety pins tied to cotton string on a stick, and we used squished-up...

Spyros From Liverpool Carries The Torch

You don't hear THIS in the news every day: "Spyros from Liverpool." Here's where the story starts: a boy named Spyridon Gianniotis was born...

An Obscenity of Assets, a Dearth of Compassion

by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D. As a citizen of this good nation, and as a 10th-generation Virginian native to the Shenandoah Valley, I am...

“Thankfulness Takes Work”

by Keith McCurdy Have you ever noticed how hard it is to be thankful?  Our natural tendency is to focus more on the negative...