When I was a grade school pipsqueak growing up in Lewiston, a video arcade called “Aladdin’s Castle” set up shop in a local mall. For nerds, it was a watershed event. Mine was the first generation to become obsessed with video games, and a video arcade is to gaming what a movie theater is to […]
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On the road again
When I was a teenager and somebody said “road trip,” I was the first one to jump in the car. Usually, that meant jumping into an old beater that had bald tires and only a gallon of gas in it. Because usually we took my car. If we went 30 miles without a flat tire, […]
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Editorial Roundup
The Providence Journal (R.I.), March 4: When Barack Obama first ran for president in 2008, he repeatedly said that he would shut down our prison at Guantanamo Bay, which he saw as a harmful symbol of U.S. injustice. Eight years later, this campaign promise remains unfulfilled. As Mr. Obama nears the end of his second […]
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Trump not a real Christian or Republican
Recently, the Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of the world’s most gifted evangelist Rev. Billy Graham, whom I loved to listen to and watch on television preaching the Bible, appeared on the Greta Van Susteren Show on the Fox New Channel. Rev. Franklin announced on the show that he had left the Republican Party and […]
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Saco Food Pantry says thanks
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm. As you get older, remember you have another hand: the first is to help yourself; the second is to help others – Audrey Hepburn And those other hands have not only been extended, they by simply opening them have taken […]
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Confusion follows Trump flip-flop on key immigration issue
DETROIT — Donald Trump won the South Carolina primary across the board, but he did particularly well with the 10 percent of voters who named immigration as the nation’s top issue. In addition, some who named other issues – the economy, national security – were undoubtedly also concerned about immigration, and Trump’s hard line likely […]
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Editorial Roundup
The Lebanon Valley News (N.H.), March 1: As it now appears, the Republican Party is on the verge of nominating for president a candidate who is neither a conservative nor a Republican. Indeed, if Donald Trump runs the table in this week’s primaries and caucuses, it could be all over but the shouting – and […]