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ROBERT L. MARONIC: The US Media’s Monomaniacal Obsession With Nancy Guthrie’s Kidnapping

I do not mean to downplay the tremendous tragedy of the kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie's elderly mother. However, in regard to the around-the-clock televised and social media coverage since...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Barack and Michelle Obama Are Neither Apes Nor Monkeys

I read an article from the BBC on February 6 entitled, "Trump says he 'didn't...

BOB BROWN: AGING POETICALLY, PART I

Too often, the human race is a race against time. Until recently, I was a...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Twenty Reasons For Regime Change in Iran

1. The kidnapping of 66 Americans at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: When Is Trump’s Promise To Iran That “Help Is On The Way” Finally Going To Happen?

There was a horrific, chaotic carnage in the streets of Iran during a nationwide protest on January 8...

The Recipe of the Week from The Happy Chef: Scary Pirate Pear Heads

My children are seven and eight. What a fun age! I have lots of wonderful friends but these two friends are certainly the...

A Matter of Perspective

Have you ever thought that what you choose to think about can significantly affect your experience of life?  Unemployment is nearing 10 percent,...

A Perspective on Celebrity

While I was not one of the people caught up in the 3 hour  “Balloon Boy” drama that played out on live TV last...

Triumph of the Undead

This is the triumphant season of the undead. Now that summer is behind us and fall has begun, a change in the calendar also portends...

From the Mouths of Babes

You never know what young children will say. Their openness is refreshing – and often entertaining. Unfortunately, they lose some of this as they...

Think Globally, Celebrate Locally: Floyd’s Sustainability Festival

The first community project for the new southwest Virginia grassroots organization, SustainFloyd, was to organize a local action towards Bill McKibben’s global efforts to...