It’s nice to get good news for a change. On Monday, two more swing states certified Joe Biden’s solid victory. And in Washington, MAGA doctor Scott Atlas quit his job. In the spirit of a famous children’s book, I say to him: “Good night, loon.” As Trump’s criminally negligent regime withers and dies, it’s imperative […]

Edward Lovely writes in his guest column of Nov. 27, “It can’t happen here (or can it?),” about the possibility of an authoritarian individual in the Oval Office. We should be more worried about the reality of authoritarian, anonymous, unelected Big Government, at all levels, writing design specifications for automobiles, light bulbs, dishwashers and social […]

John Kerry helped bring the world into the Paris climate agreement and expanded America’s reputation as a climate leader. That reputation is now in tatters, and President-elect Joe Biden is asking Kerry to rebuild it again – this time as climate envoy, a position Biden plans to include in the National Security Council. It won’t […]

This is the traditional time to give thanks and praise, but it seems harder this year. Our collective response – and non-response – to the pandemic lies heavy on the national conscience. I have relatives in South Dakota who have been alarmed by Gov. Kristi Noem’s inaction. Like Janet Mills in Maine, Noem is that […]

In politics, conventional wisdom embodies a narrative created by like-minded individuals who promote it relentlessly until it achieves credibility and acceptance by a broader audience. It is strategic effort to inject a specific theory or hypothesis into the circulatory system of the pundit population hoping it will ricochet around the echo chamber of mainstream and […]

A conservative federal judge, a lifelong Republican, gets to decide on the Trump campaign’s effort to throw out all the votes in Pennsylvania, a state critical to Joe Biden’s election. If you are Republican, you might hope that the judge will help his party’s candidate. But you might be surprised to learn that the president […]

When I first stepped onto the new Veterans Plaza on the Brunswick town mall, I did what most people do who sponsored an engraved granite honor block: look for the name of a specific person. And there it was, my dad’s block: “David R. Treadwell, Sr. DOD Manhattan Project. WW II.” My dad wasn’t a […]