If the Democrats want to win the elections, they will have to win big. The numbers are against them. The Democrats depend on, well, democracy. They expect to win when they get a majority of the votes. Maybe not. They could lose the presidency and Congress because of election math. In four presidential elections involving […]

I’ve gotten to the age, I guess, where I want to accomplish a few things in my life before I find I’ve shuffled past the accomplishment point of departure place. (OK. That didn’t make sense to me either.) What I mean is that if I’m going to make all the wannabe dreams I’ve had in […]

Once upon a time, there was a good man named John Sununu. He served as governor of New Hampshire. He was a moderate at a time when the word “moderate” was the kiss of death for most politicians. He came across on television as a “good guy,” the kind of guy you’d like to sit […]

The National Day of Prayer is on May 2nd this year. I surely need to get better at praying. Like a lot of people, I don’t pray until things go sour or I have some daunting challenge heading my way. I pray Monday mornings when I’m behind on projects that are due. I pray every […]

It was no surprise that Gov. Janet Mills vetoed a modest attempt to return to a more progressive income tax structure. It would have raised taxes for incomes above $500,000 and cut taxes for middle and upper-middle payers. What is surprising is that lawmakers actually enacted a bill raising income tax rates for the first […]

Across the states, America’s public employee pension plans are a ticking, insolvent time bomb. “For most states,” the Pew State Fiscal Health Project said in July 2022, “unfunded pension liabilities are the largest of three major long-term obligations weighing on their future finances.” Things have likely improved since the end of the lockdowns, but in […]

Todd Blanche, who’s stuck with the hapless task of defending Donald Trump in criminal court, mouthed something in his opening statement that really pissed me off. At first I wasn’t sure I’d heard him correctly, so I checked the trial transcript and lo and behold there it was, on page 90. Blanche tried to tell […]