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ROBERT L. MARONIC: A $1 Trillion Defense Budget Could Soon Bankrupt The U.S.

Rich Lowry, the editor of the National Review, wrote a column in the New York Post on April 11, entitled “Unless we spike military spending — and FAST — the next...

FRED FIRST: The Bitter-sweet Memory of Smells

This bit of writing (which was also a radio essay on WVTF) comes from February...

BOB BROWN: Anger, Forgiveness, and Atonement

Every poll from Gallup to Pew Research Group confirms that anger is engulfing America. We...

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...

BOB BROWN: The Significance of Meaning

Years ago, I took a book to read during our family’s traditional vacation at the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The little I had...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Is Not Qualified To Lead The Department of Health and Human Services

There is no question that the U.S. has a serious public health crisis compared to such similar industrialized countries as Sweden, Australia, and Japan. According...

RANDY HUFF: Of Laws and Life and Getting Along

“No one is above the law.” We hear it often and we believe it. And yet we know, like all things in this world, it...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker a Neo-Confederate Democrat?

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker arrogantly appears to be a modern day neo-Confederate Democrat. He truly thinks that he has the political authority to defy...

BOB BROWN: The Cost of Untamed Anger

Frank was my brother-law.  When I was a child, I spent a lot of time with Frank and my sister, Christine.  Oddly, I was...

RANDY HUFF: What is a Thing, Really?

Nominalism is a funny word. Though its use is vanishingly small, the idea is ever with us. Nominalism comes from the Greek work nomos meaning “name.”...