Hillary Clinton should play the “woman card.” In spades. Clinton has never been a natural politician. She’s not in her husband’s class as a campaigner, or Barack Obama’s, for that matter. The crowds greeting Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump this year have generally been larger and more enthusiastic than her audiences. What she offers as […]
Journal Tribune Opinion
Fatigue: A scourge of humankind
Staving off tiredness should be considered an artform. It may not quite have the bohemian hipness of sculpting or jazz, and you don’t see awake people on display at the Louvre. But it requires a special set of skills, and maybe the odd chemical or two. Being a human is so counterintuitive sometimes. You’d think […]
Readers’ Forum
You awake to the scattered hollers of men in the neighboring houses, and from the many you collect that Isaac Davis, your captain and trusted leader, has called upon his minutemen. It’s dawn; you can barely see as you rush out the door, equipped with your musket and gunpowder, bare of any official uniform. As […]
Editorial Roundup
The Concord Monitor (N.H.), April 29: The professional football draft is under way. As with all things NFL, it’s a shiny spectacle with intriguing plotlines and twists. Breathless coverage makes it the sports equivalent of a soap opera, and dedicated fans devour and digest each selection. They cheer, groan and taunt as if one pick […]
How GOP bigwigs made their peace with Trump
With Donald Trump heading toward what more and more Republicans believe will be victory in the GOP primaries, an increasing number of party figures – none fans of Trump originally – are making their peace with the idea of Trump as their nominee. Some are even working out an argument, at least in their own […]
Question about governor’s pay clarified
I totally respect Joseph W. Mahoney’s opinion on Gov. Paul LePage (“LePage paid what he’s worth,” April 28). My point wasn’t meant for the person, it was meant for the position of governor of the state of Maine. Whoever might be the next governor, his or her base salary will be ranked 50th. That’s last […]
Join in National Day of Prayer
Please join millions across America in observing the 65th annual National Day of Prayer (Thursday, May 5) as we pray for our government, church, military families, education, media and business. Clement FleorentBiddeford