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BECKY MAUPIN: Overwhelmed Doesn’t Mean Ungrateful

If you’re on social media for any amount of time, you pretty quickly see that there is mixed content. Some of it is positive and gives you really good...

BOB BROWN: When the Underdog Bites Has Rabies, and a Mean Owner

We have a strong human urge to identify with the “underdog.” There is nothing new...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Phase Two Of Trump‘s Peace Plan In The Gaza Strip Doomed To Fail? – Part II

Unfortunately, Trump’s present ceasefire as of October 9 is analogous to the armistice signed between...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Phase Two Of Trump‘s Peace Plan In The Gaza Strip Doomed To Fail? – Part I

Phase one of Trump‘s twenty-point peace plan in the Gaza Strip, which began on October...

FRED FIRST: Approaching the Longest Night

Yes, you’re right—if you’ve even noticed—that this space has been neglected for some weeks now,...

SCOTT DREYER: 7-7: Protect The Constitution, So It Can Protect You

Then the LORD answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.”  --...

MELINDA MYERS: Plant This Fall For a Colorful Spring Display

It’s time to think spring. Fall is the time to plant tulips, daffodils, crocus and other spring flowering bulbs. Use these early bloomers to...

SCOTT DREYER: America’s Has A Short Memory When It Comes To First Responders

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.  -- John 15:13 On this date, we remember the horrific attacks...

MIKE KEELER: The World’s First Telecommunications Center

"Tel Aviv, this is Telephone Pole calling. Telephone Pole calling, come in, Tel Aviv"...hmm, they're not answering... the line must be dead. But not so...

SCOTT DREYER: Maynard Keller Offers Strong Alternative For Roanoke City Council

But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds,...

JOHNNY ROBINSON: Chemotherapy: What’s it All About, Anyway?

It really was not part of my ambition to get Diffuse Large B-Cell Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, but I sure did. It's a kind of cancer...