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BOB BROWN: The Recent Sale of the Brooklyn Bridge, Part One

The 2025 election results in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Seattle are troubling to me, a student of the human mind. The election of “democratic socialists,” and the...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump’s “Great Gatsby Party” At His Mar-a-Lago Club on October 31 Was In Poor Taste

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is our country’s largest anti-hunger program for men,...

FRED FIRST: Winter is Coming: Make Ready!

Though a few poetic souls and tree-hugging types like me will make soft cooing noises...

BOB BROWN: “I don’t see how I can go on like this”

The round, sad Asian American face of the 26-year-old single Soldier sitting uncomfortably in front...

SCOT BELLAVIA: God in the Library

Talking to strangers about God is a muscle I don’t work very often. But I...

Recipe of the Week: Grilled Chipotle Orange Chicken Legs

by Leigh Sackett There is still plenty of summer weather left for grilling but the signs of the season’s end are all around us....

Time Rolls On . . . And Goodness Comes

by Joe Kennedy Four years ago, I prepared for my imminent retirement by doing what I'd always done: I panicked. My financial advisor assured me...

The Grand Old Men Of Medicine

by Lucky Garvin I attended a medical conference a while back, and was agreeably surprised to hear a younger physician speak of ‘bedside manner,’ and...

Hummingbirds: Pugnacious and Bejeweled Sun-Angels

by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D. Having recently returned from a two-week expedition into the rainforests and mountains of Peru, I have come back once...

The Most Important Man That Never Signed

by Mike Keeler Charles Thomson was born in County Londonderry, Ireland, in 1729.  When he was ten years old, his mother died.  His father...

My Four Hundred Dollar Soap Carving

by Mary Jo Shannon When our son Harry was in elementary school, he became interested in soap carving. His first effort was a crude...