In 1904, the United States was booming under President Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.’s dynamic leadership. Roosevelt took over as president after a Polish anarchist assassinated President William McKinley in Buffalo. The populace loved Roosevelt, who had been the Rough Riders’ leader, an author, an outdoorsman, a rancher and the New York governor. No city was thriving […]

Hunter Biden, the president’s son, was found guilty of illegally buying a gun while using narcotics. While he stood trial, you may have noticed the quietude outside the federal courthouse and on the information highway. No demagogic puppets from Capitol Hill showed up to attack the rule of law or slime the judge and jury. […]

Here’s what Sen. Marco Rubio said about Donald Trump during the heated phase off the 2016 presidential campaign: “I would prefer not to get into a fight with other Republicans. But I would much more prefer not to turn over the party to a con artist like Trump.” Marco spoke with wisdom back then, but […]

Primary elections, created by referendum in 1911 – the first initiated question placed on the ballot – once riveted Mainers. During long decades of Republican dominance, winning the primary was tantamount to winning the election, and as many as 10 candidates filed for open Congressional seats, back when Maine still had four, then three House […]

Before you pick a movie, you can often watch a trailer offering a brief preview, designed to induce you to see the whole feature. Wouldn’t it be great if we now had a trailer for the 2024 election story? It looks like a cliffhanger. More than a struggle between two candidates or parties, it may […]

A century ago, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, also known as the Immigration Act of 1924, which precipitated a two-generation-long pause in mass migration. Upon Coolidge’s signature, multiple benefits to citizen workers ensued immediately. Immigration dropped from 707,000 in 1924 to 294,000 in 1925. Within a year, more than 400,000 fewer job […]

Before we ponder the big unanswerable question — is this country so sick that it’ll put a convicted felon in the White House? — we should expel a brief sigh of satisfaction. What we witnessed Thursday afternoon was an historic triumph for the rule of law. Twelve everyday citizens did what the gutless Senate Republicans […]