Doc was just getting up to leave the philosophy counter as Herb walked in. Herb was grinning and flexing muscles and had the look of eagles in his eyes. We stared. “Herb,” said Doc. “You know, you can overdo a good thing.” “Why Doc … whatever do you mean?” “I realize that getting more exercise […]

The news is full of reports about skyrocketing electric bills across the country and numerous outages in the Northeast. Maine gets it share of both. Something is wrong when the complaints occur as often and as loudly as they do now. Utilities and their friends have come up with ready responses that squarely place the […]

Recently I wrote that under seemingly worthy goals of stopping the spread of socialism, then drugs, then terrorism we seemingly invited ourselves into every world conflict. Were globalists covertly using these causes instead to build an American Empire?  As a college professor teaching current events for 40 plus years, I had to come to this […]

Editor, Medicaid Expansion passed, so why won’t Governor LePage secure federal funding for 70,000 Mainers? Governor LePage has only until April 3 to submit a State Plan Amendment to the federal government to qualify Maine for $525 million of federal funding to finance our voter-approved Medicaid Expansion. He has not done so, and time to […]

Have you ever seen a ripple in the tide? The water, seemingly calm, is greeted by some odd disturbance, causing it to shift and move. The waves always move outward from the original disturbance and into the environment, affecting everything around it. Imagine yourself at the center of that ripple. As you go through life, […]

Happy Sunshine Week! This week (March 11-17, 2018) newspapers nationwide grade the performance of government agencies on access to public records. “Public records” generally are defined as records, regardless of their physical form, made or received in connection with official government business. “Regardless of physical form” means that public records come in various forms, not […]

Billy Sunday, Billy Graham, and the Billy Boys. The first two Billy’s were evangelists, Graham well known, Sunday less so. But who were the Billy Boys? They were followers, admirers, virtually worshippers of “Good King Billy,” King William III whose victory over a Catholic king in 1690 kept the British Isles under a Protestant monarchy. […]

Preserving Biddeford buildings of historic significance should be important to all of us.  Once these buildings are gone, they are gone forever.  A case in point is the Staples house that was on the corner of West and Granite Street.  It’s hard to imagine a more charming 18th century house and 19th century barn.  The […]

Last week President Trump officially implemented his long-expected steel and aluminum tariffs this week to a mix of praise and outrage that quickly broke party lines and that retrieved the word “mercantilism” from the history books to the national headlines. The tariffs will implement a broad-based 25 percent tax on imported steel and 10 percent […]

Imagine you are the commanding general of your nation’s armed forces and head the national government. You decide that another country is getting “cute” and is harming your country.   The only way to take on that country is to declare world war, even though your closest allies will be hit far harder than your intended […]