NBC’s “Commander in Chief Forum,” held Sept. 7 aboard the USS Intrepid in New York, was the closest thing to a debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton until the real thing on Sept. 26. And it showed an advantage Trump might have when the two meet face-to-face: She has a record in government to […]

Are you watching “The Great British Bake Off ” each week? If not, you are missing the “Downton Abbey” of cooking. It has everything required of a plummy British drama – words you can’t understand, strange humor (whoops, humour), odd obsessions and a near-psychotic attention to detail: “Can you believe it? They used curtains from […]

Dear Dad, I’m always sad, and a little teary, this week of the year, remembering of course that we lost you a dozen Septembers ago. Sometimes it seems like yesterday, sometimes as if it were a world and a time apart. Everything seems so different now, what with your absence, a void that never seems […]

People think Washington is broken. They should meet Anna Eshoo and Jeff Fortenberry. That was pretty much the unanimous consensus at the Solidarity Dinner hosted by In Defense of Christians in the heart of it all – across the street from Congress. Now, I have to confess that I was totally dreading going to Washington, […]

First off, I want to publicly condemn, in the strongest possible way, Gov. Paul LePage’s vitriolic message he left on state Rep. Drew Gattine’s answering machine several weeks ago. There is absolutely no excuse for any elected official to use such language, even in the heat of debate or policy differences. I know Rep. Gattine […]