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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...

On Borrowed But Heavenly Time

Brandi is our bird dog. We inherited her some years back from a friend who, after owning her for a year, made the...

When War Was Understandable

In reading the history of war over the centuries there have been huge changes.  When the long bow was invented it was widely...

Does Government Accountability Operate in A Vacuum?

On Monday, April 15th, 2013, the 117th running of the Boston Marathon was the highlight of Patriot’s Day in Massachusetts, won by an...

A Day of Insanity

Well, 68 Senators had the good sense to at least talk about the gun problem; not that that guarantees results.  It may be...

A Wooden Spoon In The Cauldron of My Soul

The above title describes the effect the documentary, Girl Rising, had on me. I saw it for the first time last Friday night at...

Government 101: Why It Doesn’t Work

By its very nature, a bureaucracy discourages and suppresses creativity and innovation. Both political and commercial bureaucracies are predisposed to achieve a modicum...