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BOB BROWN: KILLING TRUTH

The Declaration of Independence cites God four times—as "Nature's God," "Creator," "Supreme Judge of the world," and"divine Providence"—to support the colonists' claims to independence and rights. The different references...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Charlie Kirk’s P*** Poor Security at Utah Valley University in Orem

I always enjoyed listening to Charlie Kirk on a local radio station in Roanoke, Virginia, after...

FRED FIRST: Peregrinations of a *BoZo

I have a few bits of biological blarney to pass along before I focus later...

ANDY PITZER: No Offseason

“It’s the time of the season.” This pertains to and will make the most sense for...

BOB BROWN: “I Remember World War II”

On December 7, 1941, my sister, Edith, eight years my senior, and I were in...

Ask the Nature Lady -Winter Birds

One fall day as I was eating lunch at the kitchen table and looking out the sliding glass doors, two birds came zooming in...

How The Government Spends Our Bucks

Sometimes the size and scope of the federal budget can be so overwhelming it's hard to comprehend. And with so much pre-election chatter,...

Do We Need A Better Juggler?

The President of the United States must be a skilled ‘juggler’ -  not of balls but of serious issues of both national and...

The World’s Largest Corn Maze!

 One of the great things about the Internet is that marketing claims just don't have to be defensible. For example, just google up...

Catching The Gingerbread Man

I never knew ahead of time that we were going there. Besides, I was just a little kid. Mom would pull into the Towers...

Attitude Is Everything!

 This motto appears at each chair in the chemo treatment center at Blue Ridge Cancer Care, part of Lewis-Gale Medical Center in Salem...