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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...

Hurry Up and Wait

This expression I heard growing up was a bit bewildering to me. Nevertheless, I remembered it after recently hearing another expression, the acronym for...

Cyprus: An economic Enigma for the EU

The EU Delegation to the United States has this to say in describing their union of nations: “The European Union is a unique...

Unemployment Rate Raises Big Questions

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes each month’s report of employment/unemployment the first few days of each succeeding month. Following are comments...

Helplessly Hoping

Thought of this song by Crosby, Stills & Nash after receiving some disappointing news regarding two of my children's higher education aspirations. Also,...

Writing My Own Obituary – Joe Kennedy

Not long ago, I sat down and composed my obituary, a thing that had been on my mind since at least 2009, when...

. . . And a Time to Die

Most are familiar with the passage from that book in the Bible, Ecclesiastes.  It tends to put a lot of things in perspective...