back to top

Columnists

BECKY MAUPIN: Overwhelmed Doesn’t Mean Ungrateful

If you’re on social media for any amount of time, you pretty quickly see that there is mixed content. Some of it is positive and gives you really good...

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...

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,...

Arguing About Health Care

by Hayden Hollingsworth It’s truly amazing what politicians will argue about!  Not only was everyone caught by surprise with Chief Justice Roberts’ siding with...

Law And Order

by Lucky Garvin Sometimes I feel like I’m Commander-in-Chief of Camp Krazy. I arrive at work; 7 AM. Maybe a half hour later, I get...

America Needs to Take Lesson From Wisconsin

by Dick Baynton According to the 2010 census Wisconsin is home to about 5.7 million citizens. The state’s voters are centrist in their political...

Foods for Thought

by Nick Thomas After the Los Angeles School District banned sodas in schools in 2004, then-governor Arnold Schwarzenergger went on to sign sweeping laws...

Washington, DC, Sometime After Midnight . . . a Knock on the Door

byMike Keeler ROBERTS: Oh it's you, c'mon in. I gotta tell ya, you've put us in a bind, Anthony, a real bind. KENNEDY: I was...

What Is Spiritual Freedom? by Carey Kinsolving

Recently, I asked a kindergarten boy, "What did the signers of the Declaration of Independence declare freedom from?" He looked at me with...