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BOB BROWN: Journey to the Promised Land of Health

Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr., is the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. He is a member of the Kennedy family, a...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Iran Is Playing Trump Like A Chump

Since Ayatollah Khomeini seized power on February 11, 1979, after the exile of the Shah of Iran the...

FRED FIRST: Lonesome Highway: Hurry Up and Wait

If you don't know where you're going, how will you know when you get there? We...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The CBS Evening News Made Me Cry A River Of Tears

I was watching the CBS Evening News, co-hosted by John Dickerson and Maurice Dubois on April 17,...

DAWN CUSTALOW: American Travelers – A Cautionary Tale

My cultural underpinnings were first rooted in my Indian reservation in Virginia, yet my world...

From Mayors to Monarchs to Maniacs

A news item this past week didn’t fit the narratives of the liberal press and ended up on one of the back pages. Ray...

The Prediction: Spring Beyond The Storm

To be a meteorologist in the Roanoke Valley is not a profession I would care for. There’s something about our mountains, our topography, which...

Get In Touch With Your Inner Tortoise

I heard this expression while watching a TED Talk given by Carl Honore, a journalist who has written for The Economist and The Houston Chronicle and author of...

Government: Accountability Abrogated

In December 2013, a 46 year-old Mexican national named Jose Luis Ramirez-Dorantes was sentenced in a San Diego federal court to 55 years in...

The Hidden Persuaders

Such was the title of a book published in 1957 by Vance Packard. A newspaper journalist by trade, he eventually turned to books and...

Born and Raised on a Trampoline

Ok, so the title is a little bit of an exaggeration. Still, I did spend an awful lot of time on our trampoline when...