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FRED FIRST: The Long Way Home

I don't think it would have been any harder to leave one of the kids behind when we moved away than to leave our dog. I know that parting...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hamas Is Responsible For The Horrible Hunger And Manufactured Malnutrition In The Gaza Strip – Part II

So, where has Hamas been getting food to feed themselves? They have been simply stealing or...

BOB BROWN: What’s Fitness Got To Do With It?

One word answers today’s question, “What does fitness have to do with it?” EVERYTHING is...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hamas Is Responsible For The Horrible Hunger And Manufactured Malnutrition In The Gaza Strip – Part I

There is no question that a widespread humanitarian crisis has been occurring recently in the...

How ‘Quality of Life’ Is Changing How Americans Work and Vacation

I recently picked up a book by the author Patricia Hampl entitled The Art of...

BECKY MAUPIN: Riding the Wave of Back-to-School

Ready or not, here it comes: back-to-school season. Just like an ocean wave that so many of us got to play in this summer,...

BOB BROWN: “These Forever Children…”

The meaning of a child’s life is never more painfully appreciated than when the child is murdered. The brutal killing of four young college...

FRED FIRST: Essence of Summer: Fireflies

The senses and summers past. What did summer feel like twenty years ago? We had chickens. The pasture was rebounding from the droughts of...

LUCKY GARVIN: Be With Me While I Die

We bloom, like the tiniest flower, then we move on... I think that I will always define tenderness by those moments. Those moments, I watched a...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Bill Clinton’s Shameful Congratulations Of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani – Part II

Unfortunately, Mamdani, if elected, would have complete power to appoint the police commissioner and near-total control over the public school system. That could be a...

BOB BROWN: Feeling Helpless in America

You will find me among those who want “instant gratification,” an uncomplimentary way of saying, “I know what I want and I want it...