This past week Congress passed and the President signed a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill. The 2,232-page bill avoids a government shutdown that would have otherwise happened this past weekend and will keep the government open till at least September. The omnibus bill, H.R. 1625, did not pass without great controversy however. Many on both the left and […]

America is at war. You may not have noticed it, because the battlefields are almost invisible. But the signs are evident, and millions have been recruited to serve in that war. The Internet was essentially an American invention. In a fit of idealism, the federal government decided it should be like the airwaves, open to […]

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Celebrating the Declaration of Independence every year brings annual focus to the primary author of the document—Thomas Jefferson. Now, 241 […]

DACA means the world to me. DACA is more than the political debate in which this country is in as to what to do with the program. It is about people who are trying to better themselves and achieve the American dream. I find it hard to believe that in the summer of 2010, I […]

Eight years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, the uninsured rate has been cut in half, insurers can no longer deny, drop or limit the care you get because of a pre-existing condition, personal bankruptcy filings have been cut in half, out of pocket spending has dropped by double digits, millions of […]

Editor, The Town Manager of Old Orchard Beach said he’s had his eyes on Washington Avenue and surrounding neighborhoods because this area is tired and nothing’s been done in this are for over 100 years. When you get doen with that project, look at the rtoof at the Town Hall where shingles blow off every […]

Much of why Donald Trump is president is because of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which always has been disastrous for the trades. Democratically controlled unions and their politicians were for it when signed into law by President Bill Clinton and without union support it would not be law. Big corporations and globalists […]

When President Barack Obama wanted to curtail carbon dioxide emissions, he instructed his economic advisors to construct a way to calculate the emissions’ effect on society. The metric thus adopted by the EPA is called the “social cost of carbon.” Right from the start we should note an important distinction: Carbon is an element; carbon […]

Last week Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District went from voting for then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016 by roughly 20 points to, at the moment barring a recount, voting for a Democrat by just under three tenths of a percent. As with each special election since the beginning of President Trump’s term, the pundits and strategists have been putting their spin […]