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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 previous month, the fanatical Shiite Muslim clerics in Tehran and their proxies have publicly...

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...

FRED FIRST: Fragments: Late April

EARTH DAY I neglected to devote any words to the event this year for the first...

Promises Made, Promises Broken, Rule Of Law, Just A Token

In his 2008-2009 campaign to capture the Presidency, Obama’s mantra was ‘hope and change.’ Promises were made such as transparency of government and the...

Of A Mind, Not Stentorian

 I'm not sure that anyone has used that word since Stephen Crane used it to describe artillery in The Red Badge of Courage. It...

A is for Apple – B is for Bees.

And C? That would be for Corporate Crops. Chemicals. Colony Collapse. Crap! It's getting worse. There were multiple reports this week in the United States...

The Beaver and The Bluejay

My wife, Sabrina, has a new love, but I’m not jealous. He only weighs a thousand grams, has the worst over-bite I’ve ever seen,...

Our Most Hated Agency

When have you ever heard a kind word about the Internal Revenue Service?  Here’s one. The Mensa society has a contest each year: ...

Presidential Firestorm Is A Long Time Coming

You can fool some of the people all of the time, you can even fool all of the people some of the time, but...