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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hands Off Denmark!

President Trump has repeatedly called for the annexation of Greenland since 2019, recently appointing former Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as special envoy to Greenland on December 21.  Unless President Trump...

BOB BROWN: FITNESS AND DEMENTIA

We focus today on the role of fitness in the prevention and management of dementia....

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The Crimes Of Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City is an abnormal human being. There has to...

SERWAN ZANGANA: Some Americans Don’t Understand Definition of “Dictator”

US forces capturing the President/Dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, is a milestone for the Venezuelans,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: President Trump Is Fighting The Last War – Part II

I am totally bewildered how a U.S. aircraft carrier group or Trump-class battleship is going to stop THOUSANDS of aerial...

What is Your Child’s Job Description?

by Keith McCurdy If you had to write a “kid job description” what would you write?  I was actually asked this question recently…and it...

Sound Guys Hard to Forget

by Joe Kennedy I spent 36 years in daily journalism, and in that time my memory performed some marvelous tricks. For a long spell, I...

Honeybees Buzzing Back in 2011

by Fred First What with the extremes of temperature and rainfall, and cursed by more than the usual cadre of pests in the vegetable...

Everyone Has Something to Write

by Hayden Hollingsworth It was four years ago today I wrote my first column for The Roanoke Star-Sentinel. Now, 114 columns later I took a...

My Dogs Don’t Do Time Zones

by Jon Kaufman The state of Arizona does not believe in daylight savings time and neither does my dog Roscoe.  Along with Hawaii, Arizona...

A Few Thoughts at 63 and Counting

by Lucky Garvin Flying across the highway in front of me was a crow; and in its beak, a long piece of limp brown...