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BOB BROWN: Anger, Forgiveness, and Atonement

Every poll from Gallup to Pew Research Group confirms that anger is engulfing America. We are angrier now than ever before, and what makes it worse is that our...

FRED FIRST: Small Wonder

This is all I’ve got: a few unremarkable images and some brief words about them....

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Stop Bullying Denmark and Greenland

The last time that the U.S. seriously wanted to purchase Greenland from Denmark was in...

FRED FIRST: I Think That I Shall Never See

I signed up for a four-session poetry class through the OSHER Life Long Learning program...

BOB BROWN: “The Government Shall Be Upon His Shoulder”

To maintain fairness and minimize bias, this column deliberately attempts to refrain from critical judgment...

FRED FIRST: So Far We’ve Come, So Far to Go

A year ago, I pondered what life would be like after we’d had six months to adjust to our new life setting in Missouri....

ROBERT L MARONIC: Trump’s Not Sharing Intelligence With Ukraine For A Week Was Gratuitously Cruel

President Trump‘s public decision to stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine on March 5 was gratuitously cruel. This was in addition to his stopping of all military...

BOB BROWN: The Lifestyle You Live Influences Your Brain

COL Tate, Chief of Chaplains at a military installation, was referred to Mental Health for a Command Evaluation. No one wants to be commanded...

FRED FIRST: Turtle-Rabbits in Mid-Missouri

I saw my first three-dimensional nine-banded armadillo this week. We saw them 50 years ago, only as we neared Biloxi, on the coast (of...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump’s Deal For Ukraine’s Rare Earth Minerals Is A Big Gamble

I read a prescient and insightful column in the New York Times by Gracelin Baskaran on March 4. It was entitled, “How Trump Can Turn The Ukraine Mineral...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Ukraine’s Future Is Dismal

To say that President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance had much personal animosity toward President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on his state...