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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:...

And It Was Still Hot . . .

These are Maurice Sendak's parting words in one of my favorite books of all time, Where the Wild Things Are. What made me think about...

You Are The Protagonist Of Your Own Life

This new "column thing" I find myself doing really started a year and a half ago from short e-mails and texts to my...

Potatoes, Pears And Practical Lessons

In Augusta County a large limestone outcropping on a small triangular plot of land marks the place where U.S. 11 toward Staunton and...

The Perfect Financial Storm

Government at all levels is in self-deception, delusion, fantasy and as the French say, folie à deux.  The perfect storm is not on...

The River Always Wins

Although very little of the vanity which plagued my youth remains, yet, there is a residue; and it is this trace amount of...

Coming to Maturity In the Modern World

It is so difficult today to evaluate what we consider a mature child.  Yet it has only been in the last 75 years...