There’s a band called Muse that’s become pretty popular over the past several years. They’re not really my cup of tea – too much pop, to little grit and growl – but every time the singer opens his mouth I have to smile, because his falsetto sounds like someone’s bad impression of a prototypical ghost. […]
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The Providence Journal (R.I.), Feb. 20: In an unusual move this month, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a central piece of President Obama’s initiative to combat climate change. The 5-to-4 vote halted implementation of the Clean Power Plan, aimed at restraining greenhouse gas emissions from electricity producers, until all legal challenges against it could be […]
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The (Worcester) Telegram & Gazette (Mass.), Feb. 16: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia played a towering role in legal history during his three decades on the court, and in death will play an equally outsize role in political history in a precedent-setting battle over his successor. Like President Reagan, who nominated him, Justice Scalia’s contributions […]
Time to join the movement
On Sunday, March 6, if you’re a registered Democrat in Old Orchard Beach, you’ll have the rare opportunity to change the course of history – for the better! Here’s why. Because on the above date, OOB Dems will be conducting its town caucus – one of many statewide caucuses held to determine how many delegates […]
Washington Warlord: Hillary Clinton’s child soldiers
“Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.” – Frederick Douglass If there is one policy issue that most Americans can agree upon, even in our hyperpartisan political times, it is that child slavery should not be tolerated. President […]
Editorial Roundup
The Brattleboro Reformer (Vt.), Feb. 18: The pharmaceutical industry has been asked by President Obama to put up or shut up about its claims that high research and development costs justify the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs. Not surprising, the industry doesn’t want to do either. Last week’s White House budget proposal contains a provision […]
Why Trump voters accept the good with the bad
WALTERBORO, South Carolina — In a recent interview with Donald Trump, Fox News’ Greta van Susteren posed a simple question from a viewer: “Why don’t you act more presidential?” “I will be changing very rapidly,” answered Trump, fresh from his smashing victory in the New Hampshire primary. “I’m very capable of changing to anything I […]