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JOHNNY ROBINSON: The Changing of the Tires

The car I drive now doesn’t even have a spare tire. Can you believe that? I was suitably enamored with the vehicle to buy it anyway, though. I guess...

FRED FIRST: Facing Forward. Facing Back.

Maybe it’s okay that I can’t go back twenty Januarys past, or ten as a...

BOB BROWN: “A Very Heavy Heart For The State of The World”

A neighbor sent the following email to all who reside in this part of Albemarle...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hands Off Denmark!

President Trump has repeatedly called for the annexation of Greenland since 2019, recently appointing former...

BOB BROWN: FITNESS AND DEMENTIA

We focus today on the role of fitness in the prevention and management of dementia....

SCOTT DREYER: “Wars Are Not Won By Evacuations”

During the Spring of 1940, much of the world watched in horror as the Nazi German war machine rolled almost unopposed through much of...

H. BRUCE RINKER: The Underpinnings of A New Shoah?

What is Shoah? In Hebrew, the word signifies ‘catastrophe.’ The term specifically means the murder of nearly six million Jews and members of other...

SCOTT DREYER: Angels in Lewis-Gale ICU

Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation? -- Hebrews 1:14 (NIV Bible) It's amazing what you can learn...

SCOTT DREYER: Open The Spigots!

Many years in my history classes when I taught about the early days of WWII, I explained that the US, in order to punish...

James Finck: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

As I watched the news last night of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it scared me as it probably has scared many of you wondering...

SCOT BELLAVIA: Drug Store Fiction

Most customers come in and out of Walgreens. They know what to get and can generally find it fast. The lost and in a...