People come here legally from other countries and have children on American soil. People come here illegally and have children. Those children are instant Americans. They know nothing about being American, which means this country is no longer “one nation, under God,” as found in the Pledge of Allegiance. I was born the son of […]
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Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
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Rule-breakers end up homeless
I participated in the Memorial Walk To End Homelessness on Dec. 21. I was impressed with the number of kind-hearted folks from the community who stood in support of those who are less fortunate. The number of homeless children and adults is staggering, to say the least. It has been my experience from living and […]
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Houses all need street numbers
I spent a fair amount of time going door to door in Lewiston recently and was astounded to see how many houses do not have visible street numbers. It often took a few minutes to find the street number or to make an educated guess based on the numbers of the surrounding homes. People who call […]
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Preserve the planet as we know it
The Thursday, Dec. 17, issue of the Sun Journal carried tandem columns by Rich Lowry and Cal Thomas on the issue of climate change. Lowry dismissed the Paris accord while Thomas dismissed the phenomenon entirely. How does Thomas explain the gradually rising high-tide mark in Maine, the northward migration of lobsters in search of cooler […]
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Good year for truck-safety laws
As this year comes to end, I look forward to the future wherein roads and bridges are safer than they would have been, if not for the dedication and hard work of the Truck Safety Coalition’s (which PATT is a part of) vast network of volunteers. Equipped with facts and driven by the desire to […]
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Checking the facts reveals the lies
Like most people, I am tired of lies and misleading statements by politicians. In 2007, the Tampa Bay Times created PolitiFact to cover elections. It evaluates politicians’ statement as “false” (half false, mostly false, false and “pants on fire”). According to Rolling Stone magazine, PolitiFact has found that the politician who currently lies the most […]
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Slow but effective way to beat ISIS
The president has a plan to deal with ISIS/Daesh and it’s called strangulation. In other words, it means depriving the enemy of the means to wage war. The trouble is, no one wants to hear that plan so they say he doesn’t have one. History gives us the precedent. Early in the Civil War, Gen. […]
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Religious symbols express our culture
A Bangor school teacher has been ordered to remove a Christmas tree from her classroom (Associated Press article in the Sun Journal Dec. 22). Such actions are depriving students of this country’s culture. Any teacher comfortable doing so should not only be allowed to display a Christmas tree, but also a nativity scene, a Star […]
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People misled by lottery story
This is in response to an article in the Sun Journal Dec. 16 about how people on welfare were purchasing lottery tickets and the money amounts some were winning. From comments online, I am concerned that people reading that article are being misled. They think welfare recipients are spending millions of public assistance money on […]
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Walmart greeter an uplifting man
I thank Sun Journal staff writer Kathryn Skelton for the article (Dec. 21) about Arnold McLean. I recognized him immediately from the great picture on page B2. What a delight to read such an uplifting story so close to Christmas. The article caught the essence of the joy he brings to people. We love going […]