Stand up, editors, and be counted! You really should write a strong editorial condemning the killing of over 200 working journalists in Gaza and the refusal of Israel to allow international journalists to cover the facts on the ground — facts that Palestinian working journalists are dying for in order to present them to their […]

Everything seems to be working out just fine now. We have the federal government patrolling our city streets and special agents rounding up the undesirables. All we need now is to indoctrinate our children and come up with a special salute. No more burning flags; people should expect trouble if they don’t agree with our […]

I want to thank Sen. Susan Collins for her leadership during recent debates over cancelling international assistance funding. Sen. Collins demonstrated real leadership by holding substantive hearings on international assistance funding, consistently voting against harmful cuts, and providing a platform for bipartisan voices to defend programs like the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), […]

I ask: When we look into the eyes of a Palestinian child begging for food, do we not see the eyes of our own children? Or do we stop ourselves from believing our eyes and decide that that Palestinian child is somehow not a valid human being who is entitled to food? In George Orwell’s […]

My father lived in Maine his whole life. He loved to hunt and fish, and he owned several firearms. Being a responsible individual, he knew how to maintain and keep them safe from others. Ironically, our family lived near Lewiston, where the 2023 mass shooting occurred. My dad would have been horrified — not only […]

It must be painfully evident to many in Congress, perhaps hundreds, that Donald Trump is ethically, morally and mentally unfit for office. Yet they won’t state the obvious because too many are complicit in his crimes to remove him. Well, they should state it anyway, because the bottom line is this madman has no right […]