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BOB BROWN: Aging Poetically, Part II

Jan called today. “Ed died Thursday… he is in a better place.” Ed, a retired pediatrician in Jacksonville, was my closest friend for 76 years. Had he lived a...

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...

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,...

The Changing Face of Medicine

When I entered medical school a long time ago my classmates and I had a number of things in common:  We liked science and...

Humans on Acid, a World’s Bellyache

How's your pH, these days? If you're on a fast-food diet, heavily-caffeinated, burning up the road and burning yourself out, you may be acidifying your...

The Recipe of the Week from The Happy Chef: Chicken Salad with Some Determined Basil

I have this little Basil plant that has been so good to me. He is really little yet so bountiful. I have picked...

Small Gestures Carry Big Message

It was only after we moved from the big city of Birmingham to the small town of Wytheville in the mid 70s that I...

The Chain Saw

In my early teens, when not in school, I could usually be found buried in the forested hills of our eighty-eight acres in New...

A Hard Earned View Over the South China Sea

Small glassy waves lap at the sand, but otherwise it is silent. The calm South China Sea stetches out to the south, small islands...