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

The malign mullahs in Tehran and the IRGC view all the Iranian people as potential cannon fodder, especially teenage boys and young men, as demonstrated in the Iran-Iraq War from 1980...

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

It is estimated that an unbelievable 30,000 to 36,000 teenage, young, and middle-aged protesters were shot dead with impunity...

BECKY MAUPIN: Still Tired?

“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be...

BOB BROWN: The Great Unhinging: A Clinical Emergency

We live in an age where the "tranquility of trivia"—a peace bought with endless, unimportant...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The First Lady Of New York City Is A Vile Anti-Semite – Part II

According to the New York Post, Duwaji posted seventy times where she “took extreme positions against Israel and its supporters,” according to...

SCOTT DREYER: Budget Bullies Attack Popular Scholarships For Low-Income Kids

As noted here, here and elsewhere, The Roanoke Star has been reporting on the huge surpluses in the state's coffers and also the months-long budget...

SCOTT DREYER: Happy 71st Anniversary, Ken & Jane Dreyer!

Lebanese-American financier Ziad Abdelnour claimed: "Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose...

MELINDA MYERS: Boost The Beauty of Spring Flowering Shrubs

Bring your overgrown lilacs, forsythia, mock orange, pieris and other spring flowering shrubs down to size while maintaining their natural beauty and spring floral...

The Roanoke Star Remembers And Wishes You a Meaningful Memorial Day

On this glorious Memorial Day in Southwest Virginia as the temperatures are forecast to hit the mid-80s, many in our region are enjoying the...

H. BRUCE RINKER, P.h.D.: God’s Bullies

While living in Northern Virginia in the 1980’s, I listened one evening to a riveting author’s interview on a local NPR station. The interviewee...

SCOT BELLAVIA: It Was Just A Flat Tire . . .

I was driving home from ATL one week to the hour prior, why didn’t my tire go flat on I-75 then? The following weekend, I...