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ROBERT L. MARONIC: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) Is a Defeatist

I read an article in the New York Post by Emily Crane on January 26 entitled, “Powerful House Republican Suggests Trump Consider Pulling ICE Out Of Minneapolis After Alex Pretti...

BOB BROWN: Loss of the Sense of the Sacred

During World War II, men went to war and women went to work. But where...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Russia’s Inhumanity To Russians – Part II

The West should economically ostracize and defeat the tyrannical Putin, like the gangster whom he...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Russia’s Inhumanity To Russians – Part I

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, located in modern Belarus, formally ended Bolshevik Russia's participation in World War...

JOHNNY ROBINSON: The Changing of the Tires

The car I drive now doesn’t even have a spare tire. Can you believe that?...

When Suffering Clouds the Sun

It’s a bright time of year, and the beauty of the greater Roanoke Valley has opened to its full splendor. We are so...

Recipe of the Week: Fish Kebabs

My son suddenly wants to eat lemons! We were at the grocery store the other day and he asked me to buy lemons....

The Oh So Many Joys Of Camping

Although Harry grew up camping with his buddies and the Boy Scouts, I had never spent the night outdoors before we were married....

It’s That Time Again . . . Commencement

There is probably no month that engenders more non-political speechifying than May.  Commencements are all over the place.  Even graduation from pre-K now...

Fine Art of Napping is Mostly Genetic

As time marches on, many people of my age (51) tend to revert to behavior first experienced in their childhood.  Although I have...

Ah, The Unholy Power of Pop Culture

According to the Social Security Administration, the top two baby names of 2009 were Jacob and Isabella.  And how traditional is that?  In...