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FRED FIRST: My Wee Musical Man-Cave
Digital Tones and Frets and Reeds: Oh My!A month ago this small room behind me was just my office. Now it is also my music room.I see this as...
SERWAN ZANGANA: FISA Continues to Allow Spying on American / Foreign Citizens
The U.S House and Senate voted to reauthorize the surveillance program, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act...
RANDY HUFF: Estate Sales, Letting Go, and Hope
I see the yard and trees and driveway through the window and I wonder if...
Roanoke Voters Will Need to Let The Current Council Out and A New Council In
What a surprise, another shooting on Sunday morning in Roanoke City! Indeed no, it is...
FRED FIRST: Still is Still Moving . . .
We just don't quite know when the VAN will be at the door
THE RECAPThe storyline...
DENNIS GARVIN: Forgive – The Impossible Verb
Online Merriam Webster dictionary definition #1 of ‘forgive’: to cease to feel resentment against (an offender).Let’s be honest: this is impossible, unless you are...
DICK BAYNTON: A Coalition of Conspirators
Although many people have not recognized the transformation in our politics, there is no longer a ‘Democratic Party.’ What was once a political party...
DICK BAYNTON: Prevarication Politics
Prevarication is a word that means equivocation, fabrication, evasion of the truth, lying. Yes, it’s true in almost all political discourse and is often...
JOY SYLVESTER-JOHNSON: It’s Time To Grow Up
Lord Martin Rees, one of the world's most eminent astronomers, is an emeritus professor of cosmology and astrophysics at the University of Cambridge and...
DICK BAYNTON: Freedom of Speech
When I read an op-ed of medium length recently in the WSJ, I objected to the title that was a suggestion for Republicans to...
MIKE KEELER: A Slow Starting Parade
The first blast was almost a bust.On September 5, 1882, a few hundred working-class folks gathered in the streets of lower Manhattan near city...