The 1996 presidential election, pitting President Bill Clinton against U.S. Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, was sometimes dubbed the “Seinfeld election” — an election about nothing. The 2020 election is an entirely different affair. It is an election about everything. American elections often have an overriding theme. The 1828 election was about Andrew Jackson’s redemption […]
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Who is condemning Denmark?
Editor, Mark Aberletain stated in a recent Letter to the Editor that “we are now condemning Denmark because the prime minister there, Mette Frederiksen, expressed the sentiment that the country did not want to sell Greenland to the United States.” “Expressed the sentiment?” That characterization is not even close to accurate. The Prime Minister’s actual […]
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Gary Scott Smith: Patrick Henry, Patriot
Among America’s amazing pantheon of founders, Patrick Henry stands out for his stirring speeches and fervent commitment to liberty, virtue, and small government. The Virginia planter, lawyer, and politician strongly denounced Great Britain’s political and economic control of the American colonies and played a leading role in the movement for independence. More controversially, Henry’s love […]
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Constitutional amendment needed for federal lawmaking
Editor, I agree with columnist Gordon Weil on the matter of federal lawmaking yielding to state and partisan courts. An amendment to the Constitution will probably be required to effect any change. Rufus T. Firefly Biddeford
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Biddeford tax rate headline was bad journalism
Editor, Kathy Russell’s “Letter to the Editor” was correct relative to the Biddeford tax rate. Your headline was correct, but it was certainly bad journalism. It has become common bureaucratic convolutions for school boards and municipalities to increase their budget request to allow for later reductions. Later they know that they can report to the […]
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From the Urban Wilderness: Child’s Play of a Different Sort
How often do we adults envy the boundless energy that children possess? While we sit over our coffee and conversations, the youngest among us frolic and play as if there were no tomorrow and as if energy grew, like the euphemistic money, on trees. They leap and tumble and run and chase and cavort, sprinkling […]
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Harold Pease: ‘All went to the university where they came out all the same’
Student unrest in many universities demonstrates what is becoming obvious; institutions of higher learning are becoming radicalized and project intolerance for anything but a liberal view. Too few permit conservative or libertarian speakers and far fewer a constitutionalist. I was not surprised, some years ago, to hear a mother share with me her son’s fear […]
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Robert Koehler: The Inner Nixon
The Nixon tapes are still in the news! My God, they’re still spewing bile, still making America’s eyeballs roll. They’re as relevant as ever. Donald Trump, it turns out, is merely the inner Richard Nixon, live and uncensored. He’s also the inner Ronald Reagan — the inner voice, suddenly made public, of every white male […]
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Simple answer to letter writer’s question
Editor, There is a simple answer to the question posed by Mr. Aberletain in his letter published Aug. 23: read Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal.” Trump negotiates like a businessman, not a politician. Rufus T. Firefly Biddeford
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Mark Hendrickson: Old wisdom applied to current spending proposals
This will sound like the start of a bad joke, but please bear with me: What do Everett Dirksen, Otto von Bismarck, H.L. Mencken, and “the Preacher” in the book of Ecclesiastes have in common? Well, if you’ve been gone to college and studied multiculturalism or been taught that western civilization is nothing special, you might answer with condemnatory […]
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