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ROBERT L. MARONIC: How To Win The War In Iran?

The US military cannot win the war in Iran for the Iranian people. The victory must come from the Iranian people themselves, especially the same young and middle-aged anti-government protesters, who courageously risked their lives and...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Labor Prime Minister Keir Starmer Is A Disappointment And Disgrace

Labor Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who increasingly reminds me of the antithesis of former Conservative Prime...

BOB BROWN: Peace of Mind: The Logic of an Anchor, Part 1 of III

In 1953, an attractive, intelligent young medical student, one year ahead of me at the...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The Democratic Party’s Revolution By Illegal Immigration

I read an insightful op-ed about illegal immigration during the Biden administration in The New York...

FRED FIRST: On Eagle’s Wings

This is an excerpt from a continuing story of finding home. Much comes before; and...

Every Drought Ends with a Good Rain

by Fred First This selection is from Slow Road Home, written in August 2002, a lament during one of the worst droughts in living...

When Jokes Are In The Genes

by Mary Jo Shannon A study of the Shannon genome would reveal, I suspect, that the Y chromosome contains a specific gene for playing practical...

Harry Burn Was A Good Boy

by Mike Keeler He was elected to the Tennessee legislature in 1918 at the age of 22, making him its youngest member.  But in...

Recipe of the Week: Harry Potter Treacle Tart

by Leigh Sackett My son just had a Harry Potter birthday party and since I was a fan of the books long before he...

Cathedral of the Spirit By George Anderson

My wife and I had an opportunity to go to Greece to enjoy a vacation with my daughter, Paige, who lives in Eastern...

“We Have Met the Enemy and They Is Us”

by Hayden Hollingsworth Walt Kelly, on the first Earth Day in 1971, paraphrased Commander Oliver Perry’s message to General William Henry Harrison after the...