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BOB BROWN: Aging Poetically, Part II

Jan called today. “Ed died Thursday… he is in a better place.” Ed, a retired pediatrician in Jacksonville, was my closest friend for 76 years. Had he lived a...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The US Media’s Monomaniacal Obsession With Nancy Guthrie’s Kidnapping

I do not mean to downplay the tremendous tragedy of the kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie's...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Barack and Michelle Obama Are Neither Apes Nor Monkeys

I read an article from the BBC on February 6 entitled, "Trump says he 'didn't...

BOB BROWN: Aging Poetically, Part I

Too often, the human race is a race against time. Until recently, I was a...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Twenty Reasons For Regime Change in Iran

1. The kidnapping of 66 Americans at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979,...

Unfettered Spending Moving America Closer to The Cliff

Will Rogers once opined, “If you’re riding ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it’s...

Vocation – Choose Wisely

I recently read about the huge unemployment figures in Italy, standing now at 11.7%.  Even as disturbing was the comment that Italians choose...

And It Was Still Hot . . .

These are Maurice Sendak's parting words in one of my favorite books of all time, Where the Wild Things Are. What made me think about...

You Are The Protagonist Of Your Own Life

This new "column thing" I find myself doing really started a year and a half ago from short e-mails and texts to my...

Potatoes, Pears And Practical Lessons

In Augusta County a large limestone outcropping on a small triangular plot of land marks the place where U.S. 11 toward Staunton and...

The Perfect Financial Storm

Government at all levels is in self-deception, delusion, fantasy and as the French say, folie à deux.  The perfect storm is not on...