Is the pro-life movement on Capitol Hill dead? If it is, it’s congressional Republicans who have killed it. Funding for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—where nearly all federal pro-life policy resides—will pass a Republican Congress this month without a single new pro-life policy attached to it. Specifically, the bill would continue to […]
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Joe Mokler: Trump just the worst symptom of a sickened political system
Placing his self-interest above the nation’s and engaging in potential criminal activity, Donald Trump, a cultural and anti-establishment fraud, is turning Republicans into sycophants and destroying the party’s brand. Yet, despite all the drama, the president isn’t the country’s biggest problem. He’s just the latest fake change agent leading a government whose lack of political […]
Paul Kengor: ‘Nothing Dramatic,’ Karl Blake’s War Story
“It was nothing dramatic,” says Dr. Karl E. Blake of Wexford, Pennsylvania, retired surgeon and member of the World War II generation, “but it was important, and no one has written about it, at least that I’ve seen.”I got an unexpected call from Dr. Blake a few Memorial Days back, mid-afternoon, after just returning from […]
Refuting ‘facts’ in Letter to the Editor
Editor, In response to a recent Letter to the Editor, “Columnist deserves criticism for his skewed view”: Donald Trump lost the popular vote by almost three MILLION votes. The fact that he (barely) won the Electoral Collage is a national travesty highlighting the undemocratic way that system works. Mr. Haggett goes on to criticize President Obama for things […]
No honor in being a ‘quitter’
Editor, Regarding the Letter to the Editor “Once proud Republican now an Independent” To change an established institution from within requires courage, perseverance, commitment, and intestinal fortitude. Quitting is easy. There is no honor in quitting. Paul Israelson Biddeford
Flags in Biddeford getting battered by weather
Editor, I was wondering when Biddeford workers will be taking down the large number of American flags put up before Memorial Day along Alfred Street? Some of the flags are getting rather battered and worn out by the weather and both of my grandchildren have pointed them out to me numerous times as we are […]
Once proud Republican now an Independent
Editor, “What serve man to gain the world if he loses his soul?” To Trump I say if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. People that know me and those who subscribe to the Journal Tribune who have read my letters to the editor know I have been a loyal Republican […]
Columnist deserves criticism for his skewed view
Editor, As most of you who subscribe to the Biddeford Journal know, Andy Young writes frequent editorials for the newspaper. During the George W. Bush years, Mr. Young was very critical of the president’s policies, especially the decision to send American forces into Iraq. In the last two years, during the Donald Trump presidency, Andy […]
Gary Scott Smith: When Teddy Roosevelt saved football
For more than a century baseball has been called America’s national pastime, and Major League Baseball is flourishing today. However, in recent decades, football—college and professional—has surpassed baseball in popularity and prominence. For many men and some women, fall weekends and football are synonymous. Both the National Football League and major colleges attract huge audiences […]
Harold Pease: A Struggle for the Survival of our Nation
Most of the following words are not our own, although Liberty Under Fire has published extensively documenting the same the past decade. It is an address not covered by the establishment press. See why. “Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American People. […]
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