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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Congressional Republicans Know This War Is Going Well

I read a defeatist op-ed in the New York Times entitled," Republicans Know This War Is Going Badly." It was written by opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg on March 27. If I only read the New York Times and...

JOHNNY ROBINSON: Keep it Fun

It was a while back, maybe twenty years ago. I was setting up for an...

SERWAN ZANGANA: By Killing HB 295, VA Senate Democrats Devalue Lives of Correctional Officers

Delegate Mitchell Cornett (R-Grayson County) introduced HB 295 in this year's General Assembly. Its goal...

BOB BROWN: While the World Slept: The Pathogens of Chaos Part II: The Divergent Path

Before we can address the fracturing of our civilization, we must be precise in our...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Pope Leo XIV Needs To Shut Up About The US-Israeli War Against Genocidal Iran – Part III

Pope Leo XIV is extremely naive in assuming that both the US and Israel can...

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...

My Life Would Have Been Better with a Less Predictable Curve

My right elbow and shoulder ache when it rains, and I blame it all on baseball. In the beginning of my abortive sports career,...

Preacher’s Corner: Looking at Life Through a “Dog-Slobbered” Window

It’s getting hard to see through the glass again.  Our Labrador is passive and sweet and attentive to us when we’re at home,...

The Recipe of the Week from The Happy Chef: October Bean Soup

This is my Dad’s bean soup recipe that he created! (Somewhere in heaven my mom must be so proud.) I often long to...