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ROBERT L. MARONIC: There Is No Need For A U.S. Ground War In Venezuela

The easiest way to overthrow Nicolás Maduro, the narco-terrorist dictator of Venezuela, is to finance an insurgency. That would allow the oppressed people and disaffected military of Venezuela to overthrow this Hugo Chavez...

SCOTT DREYER: Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

Americans celebrate Thanksgiving today, and along with Canadians in October, are the only people on...

DAWN CUSTALOW: Pocahontas Reframed and Thanksgiving

I just returned from the 9th annual Pocahontas Reframed film festival 2025 in Richmond, VA,...

SCOTT DREYER: “Forgive Me When I Whine”

This poem, of unclear authorship, reportedly comes from the dark Great Depression days of the...

BOB BROWN: Recent Sale of Brooklyn Bridge, Part Two

In 2025, America’s fertility rate reaches a historic low, while Muslim and Arab communities maintain...

Another Christmas Tree War

You can always tell what you think of the giverby how well you take care of his gifts.        -- Rev....

A Few Thoughts at 63 and Counting

by Lucky Garvin Flying across the highway in front of me was a crow; and in its beak, a long piece of limp brown...

Cornish Hens with Cornbread Stuffing

by Leigh Sackett I love giving a Christmas dinner recipe to all of you. The problem I always find is that I make the same...

Extra, Extra! Christmas Stolen – Grinch Exonerated!

by Fred First Granted, his methods were nefarious the year he stole Christmas. But his tiny heart secretly was—and is—in the right place. He...

The Family Seamstress

by John Robinson I grew up in Roanoke in the 1960’s, in what was normal at the time; that is with a dad who worked...

The Preposterous Gospel By Tupper Garden

Comfort, O comfort my people … Get you up to a high mountain … lift your voice with strength … lift it up,...