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BOB BROWN: “We Remember But Warriors Try To Forget”

“Sir, may I have permission to speak honestly? Frankly, I don’t want to be here. My wife said get help or she’s leaving. She’s said it many times since I...

FRED FIRST: Lonesome Highway: An Object at Rest

Without the always-on duties of a care partner now for less than a week, I’m...

BOB BROWN: Sitting Alone in America

We are an aging, sedentary, less engaging people who are preoccupied with problems more than...

FRED FIRST: LONESOME HIGHWAY: Together, Apart

It would be an ending; and it would be a beginning: the day that Ann...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump Should Not Accept A Qatari Boeing 747 As A New Air Force One

Qatar is the ultimate frenemy. That is because Qatar has a U.S. Air Force base...

The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of Defeat

We have certainly seen enough of that in these last two weeks of the Olympics. We can be grateful that the incidents of social...

From Mayors to Monarchs to Maniacs

A news item this past week didn’t fit the narratives of the liberal press and ended up on one of the back pages. Ray...

The Prediction: Spring Beyond The Storm

To be a meteorologist in the Roanoke Valley is not a profession I would care for. There’s something about our mountains, our topography, which...

Get In Touch With Your Inner Tortoise

I heard this expression while watching a TED Talk given by Carl Honore, a journalist who has written for The Economist and The Houston Chronicle and author of...

Government: Accountability Abrogated

In December 2013, a 46 year-old Mexican national named Jose Luis Ramirez-Dorantes was sentenced in a San Diego federal court to 55 years in...

The Hidden Persuaders

Such was the title of a book published in 1957 by Vance Packard. A newspaper journalist by trade, he eventually turned to books and...