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BOB BROWN: Journey to the Promised Land of Health

Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr., is the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. He is a member of the Kennedy family, a...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Iran Is Playing Trump Like A Chump

Since Ayatollah Khomeini seized power on February 11, 1979, after the exile of the Shah of Iran the...

FRED FIRST: Lonesome Highway: Hurry Up and Wait

If you don't know where you're going, how will you know when you get there? We...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The CBS Evening News Made Me Cry A River Of Tears

I was watching the CBS Evening News, co-hosted by John Dickerson and Maurice Dubois on April 17,...

DAWN CUSTALOW: American Travelers – A Cautionary Tale

My cultural underpinnings were first rooted in my Indian reservation in Virginia, yet my world...

DENNIS GARVIN: My Struggle With Rap

I do not appreciate music as I should. Afflicted with a lead eardrum, I am like General Ulysses Grant, who said “I only know...

BOB BROWN: Regarding Emotions

“Carefully shaped words can reshape the lives of people” because they touch the heart, breathe into one’s spiritual nostrils, and inspire the best emotions. In...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Stalin Would Have Been Proud Of New York Magazine

Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, also known as Stalin (“Man of Steel”) brutally ruled the Soviet Union as a monstrous totalitarian dictator from 1924 to 1953....

FRED FIRST: Early February

It has been a while since I offered (or inflicted upon you) a short list of topics with links as a way of sharing...

BOB BROWN: The Significance of Meaning

Years ago, I took a book to read during our family’s traditional vacation at the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The little I had...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Is Not Qualified To Lead The Department of Health and Human Services

There is no question that the U.S. has a serious public health crisis compared to such similar industrialized countries as Sweden, Australia, and Japan. According...