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BOB BROWN: The American Flag

All my life, I’ve loved the American flag. I was taught there is something special about our flag, that it is never trampled upon in war or peace, and...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: There Is No Need For A U.S. Ground War In Venezuela

The easiest way to overthrow Nicolás Maduro, the narco-terrorist dictator of Venezuela, is to finance an insurgency....

SCOTT DREYER: Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

Americans celebrate Thanksgiving today, and along with Canadians in October, are the only people on...

DAWN CUSTALOW: Pocahontas Reframed and Thanksgiving

I just returned from the 9th annual Pocahontas Reframed film festival 2025 in Richmond, VA,...

SCOTT DREYER: “Forgive Me When I Whine”

This poem, of unclear authorship, reportedly comes from the dark Great Depression days of the...

Corporations Can’t Go Home Again

by Mike Keeler Thomas Wolfe famously explained, "you can't go home again." Mitt Romney infamously said, "corporations are people, my friend." Put them together, and...

By the Sea of Galilee

Just over four years ago I received an all expense paid trip to Israel that was furnished to me by AIPAC - the...

Food For Thought

by Robert Adcox Grocery shopping is thought of by most as a boring, weekly trip involving plodding up and down eight or nine aisles...

Should Virginia Secede from the Menhaden Union?

Secession is in the air once again in Virginia as a state senator has introduced a bill that would withdraw the Commonwealth from...

An Old Perspective for New Year

by Keith McCurdy Recently, while listening to a teenager complain about how unfair life was and how her entire day had been ruined by...

Patience . . . and Progress

by Hayden Hollingsworth As Longfellow translated from the German poem, “Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.”  History would...