“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” — Abraham Lincoln “Great men, great nations have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson The challenge […]

President Donald Trump has promised to spend a trillion dollars on infrastructure but he wants to leverage this money to provide the extra provided by states and cities to make their project possible, not pay the whole thing.  This way he gets the most bang for the federal buck.  Whether Trump understands the Constitution or […]

“Our job is not done,” said Gov. LePage told the Legislature in his State of the State address. He stressed that he plans to be an active, if not downright aggressive, governor until the last minute of his term at the end of the year. And he was right. We elect governors and presidents for […]

Lois Lane screams as she falls from the top of a Metropolis skyscraper because, well, that’s just what she does. A crowd gathered on the sidewalk watches her tumble through the air, faces locked in horror as they anticipate the ensuing grisly scene. Then whoosh! In a blue-and-red blur, a mysterious flying man streaks across […]

News reports about Carbonite shipping Lewiston jobs to Jamaica – despite receiving substantial tax breaks from the people of Maine – are just the tip of the iceberg of a far larger problem that’s been plaguing Maine for decades. In 2011, Carbonite announced it was closing a call center in India to bring jobs here […]

Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, and Jamie Dimon vs. the entire United States Congress? My money is on Buffett, Bezos, and Dimon. These men, three of the wealthiest, most influential, and powerful business leaders in the world, recently announced an alliance that will attempt to address the tangled knot that is the U.S. healthcare system. Buffett, […]

Avoiding national debt was one of George Washington’s greatest admonitions yet neither liberals nor conservatives have paid much attention to it.  It would be well to reflect on his advice this President’s Day. The trillion dollar Republican proposal will raise overall spending caps by about $300 billion over the next two years and will make […]

I remember, as a child, accompanying my parents to vote. In the auditorium of a Nashville elementary school, I waited with them in line, then accompanied them to a big steel machine with an oversized, red-handled lever. With a pull of the lever, a curtain closed behind us, separating us from the rest of the […]

“She was hysterical and screaming. I tried to comfort her.” A young girl in Northern Ireland had just witnessed four female prison guards being mowed down by terrorist gunfire in front of her house. One of the grievously wounded women was crawling into the little girl’s yard, eliciting the screams and the efforts of a […]