Opinion
The Democratic Party is Not Reflective of Maine
The news was welcome this morning as Governor Janet Mills has withdrawn from her quest to replace Susan Collins in the U.S. Senate. I say it is welcome news as we can finally have a goodbye party to send Mills off to…
RFK Jr.’s Call For Early Alzheimer’s Screening Could Stop A Fiscal Crisis
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently announced that “it is regulatory malpractice that we don’t have early screening already,” saying “we now know that early treatment of Alzheimer’s can postpone…
Uncle Sam Puts Price Tag On Foreign Trade Rip-Offs For First Time Ever
You probably didn’t hear much about a trade meeting that wrapped up in Cameroon last month. That’s understandable. What happened there, or more precisely what didn’t happen, affects your paycheck, your job and the prices you…
Sick Of Seeing Conservatives Lose Winnable Elections? New Book Has A Solution
For years, I’ve watched the same story play out in American politics. A candidate is expected to win. The polls look good, the messaging sounds right, then election night comes, and somehow, they lose, and often by a lot.When…
If You Need to Explain the Joke, It Wasn’t Funny
I gave up on late-night TV, specifically late-night comedy, when Jay Leno left the scene. Maybe we were spoiled growing up with Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, but I think we witnessed the end of an era and with it, a period of…
Hollywood Can Still Make Great Movies
“Project Hail Mary” is proof.Based upon the novel of the same name by author Andy Weir (who also wrote “The Martian”), the science fiction film released by Amazon MGM Studios has already grossed more than $600 million…
When Does Speech Become Dangerous?
Americans love arguing about free speech. We invoke the First Amendment as a kind of political force field: You can say whatever you want, whenever you want, without consequence.But the First Amendment only restricts…
What The UAE’s OPEC Breakup Actually Signifies
In a move that should surprise no one who’s been paying attention to the shifting realities of global energy, the United Arab Emirates announced Tuesday it is withdrawing from both OPEC and the broader OPEC+ alliance,…
High Stakes Machine Gun Case Could Finally Settle Decades-Long Constitutional Battle
In Federalist 51, James Madison recognized the “great difficulty” of self-governance: “ou must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”The Gun Control Act has…
Another Climate Activist Trojan Horse Gets Exposed
A new edition of a science education manual for judges departs “sharply” from a “longstanding tradition of neutrality,” say three of America’s most distinguished physicists in a letter to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John…
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