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BOB BROWN: When the Underdog Bites Has Rabies, and a Mean Owner

We have a strong human urge to identify with the “underdog.” There is nothing new about this tendency. The biblical story of David and Goliath, reported 3000 years ago,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Phase Two Of Trump‘s Peace Plan In The Gaza Strip Doomed To Fail? – Part II

Unfortunately, Trump’s present ceasefire as of October 9 is analogous to the armistice signed between...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Phase Two Of Trump‘s Peace Plan In The Gaza Strip Doomed To Fail? – Part I

Phase one of Trump‘s twenty-point peace plan in the Gaza Strip, which began on October...

FRED FIRST: Approaching the Longest Night

Yes, you’re right—if you’ve even noticed—that this space has been neglected for some weeks now,...

A Life Well-Lived: Shirley Padgett Lester (1947-2025)

Shirley Padgett Lester of Vinton went to her heavenly reward October 4. Below is the...

My Aneurysm And ‘Christmas’

Christmas this year came on December 15th, this year of our good Lord, 2012, but it began three years ago when I suddenly...

People You Meet In The ER

Perhaps nowhere in the world has the invasion of ‘texting’ become so obvious. It’s no longer uncommon to walk in to a patient’s room,...

White House Christmas Cards: 1945 to the Present

President Ulysses S. Grant made Christmas Day (December 25) a national holiday in 1870. From that point forward, a Christmas card from the White...

Where Mixology Meets Etymology

 Nobody is quite sure where the name comes from. But the drink has its roots in many forms of milk-and-alcohol libations that were...

Regulations Bring More And More Federal Jobs

Recently, a reporter on my car radio announced that Congress had passed some important legislation with the name CALM. The letters stand for...

Christmas In The Forties

Packages wrapped in ornate paper, topped with festive bows cluster beneath the Christmas tree. As I survey them, I remember a more modest...