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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Annex Ukraine Now

Steve Witkoff, acting as personal envoy for President Trump, first met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Russo-Ukrainian War on February 23. His most recent meeting, accompanied by Jared Kushner,...

BECKY MAUPIN: Overwhelmed Doesn’t Mean Ungrateful

If you’re on social media for any amount of time, you pretty quickly see that...

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...

On the Road Down Under

It happens in the blink of an eye. The dusky-colored, full-grown kangaroo enters our narrow frame of view in the  predawn darkness. A huge...

Campaign Year Spurs an Enviromentalist’s Pro-Life Lament

I would say that those who are callous about babies and callous about life ought to be brought to bear the callousness of...

A Perspective on Tomorrows

by Stephanie Koehler Tomorrow is an interesting word.  We most frequently use it with the air of hope and possibility.  Tomorrow holds the idea...

Of Fires, Butterflies and Injured Dogs

THE FIRE An article in National Geographic several years ago: After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park, forest rangers began their trek up...

Cooking Up A Good Time

Thanksgiving is extra- special when you make your own pumpkin pie – especially if you are a pre-school or kindergarten child and you’re...

Four Year Forecast Not So Pretty

The political ads featuring extensions of the truth (lies) have been quelled. The fact-checkers, whoever they are, have returned to their alternate occupations....