I’ve read and re-read Cal Thomas’s July 11 column. It seems Thomas has swallowed a specious and a spurious fantasy: America was founded as a Christian nation, and thus manifested American exceptionalism. I’m a Christian believer and a minister, who found Thomas’s anemic, westernized, weak-kneed pity party for Christianity an affront, which required a rebuttal. […]

The honorable mayor of Lewiston gave a heart-wrenching plea for Central Maine Power’s corridor in a speech seemingly orchestrated by CMP itself. I empathize with Lewiston’s fiscal woes and understand that CMP’s substation generates helpful financial relief to taxpayers and supports necessary municipal services. However, the speech’s touted climate benefits, much resembling CMP’s false advertising for […]

I wondered why one of our major political parties, the GOP, went crazy and decided to worship Donald Trump. So I decided to see if there was an answer to my questions online. National Public Radio featured a study titled: “Activating Animus: The Uniquely Social Roots of Trump Support.” Professor Lilliana Mason said the study was […]

The conclusion of Kevin Landry’s guest column (“Time to move on from a cancerous past,” July 11) misses the point. Yes, our ancestors suffered many indignities and prejudices when we emigrated from Quebec to make a better life for ourselves. (David Vermette, who Landry quotes, also likens our experience to that of today’s Somali immigrants.) […]

What, exactly, does a thug look like? In the July 14 article reporting that an internal State Police review found no racial profiling by Trooper John Darcy, this is the unanswered question. Police authorities were right to be concerned that Trooper Darcy made this statement. What exactly, I’d like to know, made him think that […]

We Americans have decided to respond to the last few crises separately. After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that meant shoving aside those who’d committed themselves to seeing the American people through the battle between Middle Eastern extremists determined to use terrorist attacks to provoke a war they could use to restructure that region, […]

The U.S. Senate will soon be voting on a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar surface transportation bill, S. 2016, the Surface Transportation Investment Act. The bill directs the U.S. Department of Transportation to mandate lifesaving technology, automatic emergency braking, on large new trucks. However, due to the influence of the trucking lobby, the bill excludes small and medium […]

Much has been written recently about vaccinations; some refuse to be vaccinated for numerous reasons. I think they have every right to not get vaccinated, even though they may infect others. The courts have ruled that employers have a right to require employees to be vaccinated to ensure a safe workplace for clients and employees. […]

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and his majority party state House Republicans ran into a little trouble trying to force passage of draconian Jim Crow reboot voter suppression bills in the regular session, when House Democrats refused to participate and walked out on the last day at the 11th hour. Abbott et al. consider the growing […]

The states where COVID cases are increasing the most are almost entirely Republican. Why are Republican leaders hurting their supporters with anti-vaccination propaganda? Why did the former president, who suffered from COVID, quietly get vaccinated before he left office? Why did Republicans at CPAC cheer anti-vaccine remarks? Republicans such as Reps. Marjorie Greene and Lauren […]