They didn’t know. That tragic day would be their last day alive. They woke-up and went about their usual morning routine. Coffee, shower, breakfast. Feed the kids. Feed the dog. Kiss the spouse good-by. Drive to work. They didn’t know. The Virginia Beach mass shooting left 12 people dead—innocent human beings that died unexpectedly. Photographs […]

We’ve all wondered, what happens with our information online? We’ve heard about the Russians hacking social media accounts. It seems like every few months another scandal erupts about a credit card company whose customers’ information has been compromised. And don’t get me started about the rise of voice-controlled speakers that people have started to buy […]

Independence Day comes in less than a month.  Many remember it as marking end of British rule over the American colonies.  But, as the Declaration of Independence itself stated, the purpose was to end “all allegiance to the British crown.” The Declaration is not a collection of grievances about Britain.  It is a list of […]

Each Spring, a School Committee-approved budget is presented to the Biddeford City Council for their action to finalize the School Department’s budget. Again this year, the citizens of Biddeford will be provided an opportunity to vote on the school budget on June 11, 2019. The FY20 Biddeford School Department budget created a different set of […]

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Is the spectacle being conducted here — with dozens of candidate visits each month, with political forums in village libraries, with house parties in rural crossroads and with meet-and-greet events in union halls — an endangered species? For nearly a half-century, Iowa’s precinct caucuses, the first political test of modern presidential-election […]

Ever since Donald Trump became president, regime change in Iran has been a prominent US aim. Trump began by backing out of the nuclear deal and imposing harsh sanctions, setting the stage for a confrontational policy. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton followed Trump’s lead, repeatedly denouncing Iran’s leadership, calling […]

One of the more unfortunate effects of the Trump-Russia investigation — and there have been many — is the weakening of traditional standards of argument and proof in the public debate over allegations that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to fix the 2016 election. (Just for the record: It didn’t.) In particular, angry disputes […]

As a young man I observed that those who saw racism in everything were usually the most racist.  That analysis has proven itself over time.  Today the accusation is so frequently made on Democratic Party media outlets, very recently by Beto O’Rourke against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that it’s now difficult to know who […]