In rebuttal to recent letters critical of the president, to date Biden has: Disengaged, as initiated by former President Trump, our military from the longest, and probably most costly war in U.S. history. And yes, I think the withdrawal could have been done a lot better; Continued Trump-era efforts to level the playing field with […]

When I was 5 years old one of my playmates and I were “cooking stuff” in the back yard. I dug up a root to add to our stew, but Carol warned, “If you eat that you will die!” Two weeks later Carol was dead, killed by polio. I wasn’t sure what it meant to […]

According to the article in the Sun Journal on Aug. 19, Rep. Laurel Libby says that we are at war over the matter of “government force.” And, that mask mandates are a current battle in this war. Since when does government have the right to tell anyone they must wear a mask? For that matter, […]

I’m vaccinated, I work from home, and I don’t have school-aged children, so I’m reasonably well insulated from COVID-19–related problems. But like everyone else I’m at risk for breakthrough infection because not enough people are getting vaccinated and too many people are refusing to wear masks indoors. And like many others, I can’t visit a […]

Not much is new in Afghanistan: since pre-history, peace has been elusive. Afghanistan has epitomized instability for millennia, resisting occupiers: Greeks, Mongols, Turks, Arabs, British, Persians, Russians, and more recently, Americans. Even in the short term, neither colonialism nor democracy has taken root. Outliers, bloodied after countless incursions, have learned to leave it alone. Long […]

President Biden has accomplished much. He has put thousands out of work by canceling the Keystone Pipeline project while waiving sanctions for Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline. His policies have engendered rising inflation. He has ignored a Supreme Court, thereby continuing to prevent landlords from evicting non-paying renters. The price of gasoline, timber, oil, food, […]

It’s terrible how our country is going downhill with this president. We have Biden. He’s a phony. As soon as he took office he shut our pipeline down. People are flooding over our borders. Food went sky-high and our taxes are going to go up. He has no guts. Those of you who voted for […]

The current occupant of the White House is an embarrassment and his policies of a mere seven months in office have been disastrous domestically and in terms of foreign affairs. In a recent press conference, he assured the press that Afghanistan was in no way similar to what happened in Vietnam, but the parallels speak […]

New England Clean Energy Connect’s advertising propaganda is sickening. Let’s look at some facts: FACT: New England is known as the exhaust pipe of America . . . whether we get clean or polluted air to breathe depends completely on wind direction. FACT: Despite this, Maine still has the cleanest air in New England because […]

I am writing to calm the anxiety caused by us leaving Afghanistan. It is a big mess right now, but we had to bite the bullet and leave some time. It could have been on May 1 or Sept. 1, or maybe 10 years from now. Either way this mess was inevitable. We needed to […]