A new gas range delivered with an unexpected Holiday Surprise
In the process of buying and installing a a new gas range, I discovered that this kitchen appliance included an unexpected Holiday Surprise.
Mario Salazar
Chaos in Venezuela: A once wealthy country’s ongoing debacle under Maduro
Venezuela has rapidly declined from an age of oil-driven prosperity to a Maduro-led era of poverty and chaos for all except the ruling elites.
Will ICE raids effect comprehensive immigration reform?
American desperately needs comprehensive immigration reform and it needs to be bipartisan. Because nothing we are doing now works.
Regulating the “others” in America to a second class citizenship
We all need to be and accept others as citizens. But that requires that everyone be American. that they will love America. Or leave.
How well are we treating our military heroes and their families?
Miitary families are economically failing, without enough moeny to feed their spousea and children, troops are beginning to question their service
The Founder of Cities, Sebastían de Belalcázar from Cordoba to El Dorado
We all come from someone. The writer is a descendant of Sebastían de Belalcázar, as are most people with Castillian heritage.
Single use plastics: Time to ban them before it’s too late
Companies and individuals have made numerous attempts to recycle single use plastics. But most end up in sanitary landfills. Or worse, in our environment.
Is fully funding military armaments keeping America from looking weak?
MONTGOMERY VILLAGE, MD: While the Trump administration has been unique in many ways, it has greatly increased the prominence of one particular sector of the US economy. The armaments industry that President Eisenhower warned us about continues to benefit from our taxes to a great degree. One of the first things President Trump and the ...
Giants of pacifism: Nelson Mandela, Dr. Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi
What may standout, however, about these men is that they are the human beings that transcended their own lives, giving of themselves to better the world.
The 21st Century America living in quiet desperation, seeking a Mitzvah
MONTGOMERY VILLAGE, MD. It was a horrendous day. We in the Mid Atlantic US get these days in early winter, 45 degrees with a fine rain. We were receiving donated computer equipment at a Mitzvah. I had recently learned that it translated to something close to “good deeds event”. It was early on a Sunday morning. ...
Privilege and entitlement on display in Ford vs Kavanaugh
In addition to the testimony of each witness, Americans also got a rare glimpse into the rarified world of American social privilege and entitlement.
When all you have to give a stranger is $20 and a bottle of water
FROM THE ROAD: The man sat on the curb in front of the convenience store/gas station. It was right off the ramp from the interstate in Alabama. We had just had lunch at a Subway restaurant down the street and stopped at this place before getting back to Interstate 59 North. My wife and son ...
Prison Reform: Ending twenty-first century slavery in the US.
Most industrialized countries have abolished the death penalty with the exception of the US, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. Prison reform is necessary.
Repeal of “rain tax” comes back to bite Republicans, Maryland developers
Because of the need for storm water management, the state of Maryland legislature passed a bill to implement a tax on paved surfaces in 2012. The bill was promptly and unfairly attacked by its detractors as a "rain tax."
The Kentlands: New Urbanism in the heart of suburban Maryland
The Kentlands in Gaithersburg, MD, located north of Washington, DC is one of the first "small footprint" developments that delivers the high-density services, restaurants and entertainment many new home buyers are looking for.
A personal home server: How to build and maintain your own
Hosting can refer to working through an external hosting service, like WP-Engine that CommDigiNews uses. This allows you to move your website from idea to being a findable presence on the web with minimal muss and fuss. Your other option is to develop your own home server.
Bogota, Colombia 1948: The assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
On April 9, 1946, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was the victim of assassination as he stepped out of her office building in Bogata, Columbia. Gaitán was a politician, a leader of a populist movement in Colombia, and threat to the government. I was four at the time
‘Shithole countries’ a new diplomatic term for the Trump administration?
On the other hand, when does political correctness end and insensitivity and insult begin? When do prerogatives like "shithole" become o.k.
Trump’s inconvenient award ceremony for Code Talkers
The Navajo Code Talkers did not seem to take offense. But some fee Andrew Jackson was the worst enemy Native Americans have
Can we learn something from other countries about gun control?
Other countries have had bloodier civil wars than ours, and others have been as cruel to minorities. Their violent pasts haven't turned their schools and churches today into killing fields.