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BOB BROWN: While the World Slept: The Pathogens of Chaos Part II: The Divergent Path

Before we can address the fracturing of our civilization, we must be precise in our diagnosis. In medical science, a pathogen is any microorganism or agent—a virus, bacterium, fungus, or parasite—that...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Pope Leo XIV Needs To Shut Up About The US-Israeli War Against Genocidal Iran – Part III

Pope Leo XIV is extremely naive in assuming that both the US and Israel can...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Pope Leo XIV Needs To Shut Up About The US-Israeli War Against Genocidal Iran – Part II

The malign mullahs in Tehran and the IRGC view all the Iranian people as potential cannon fodder,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Pope Leo XIV Needs To Shut Up About The US-Israeli War Against Genocidal Iran – Part I

It is estimated that an unbelievable 30,000 to 36,000 teenage, young, and middle-aged protesters were shot dead with impunity...

BECKY MAUPIN: Still Tired?

“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be...

So You Think Winter is Really Over?

by Mary Jo Shannon Julius Caesar was warned, “Beware the Ides of March.” We had no such warning for the Ides of March, 1993....

In the Mirror We Find Something of Elmer Gantry

by Lucky Garvin After watching Burt Lancaster portray Elmer Gantry in the 1960 movie based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis, I went to...

Ask the Nature Lady by Marlene A. Condon

New Guide to Frogs and Toads of Virginia Spring is the time of year when you can readily learn about frogs and toads.  Because...

This Week A Man Died On His 25th Birthday, After A Very Long Life

byMike Keeler When George Keller was a farm kid in St. Louis, he thought he was indestructible. His favorite trick was to lie on...

Lenten Living by Joe Lehman

Devotion, faithfulness, duty,  and love.  These virtues bring people do the strangest things.  Because of them, firefighters go into burning buildings and forests,...

More Than Choirs Come Together

by Frances Stebbins Fifty years ago, maybe even twenty, such an event could hardly have happened in traditional Salem, but at the end of...