For Kamala Harris to openly promote abortion on the same day as the Al Smith dinner, and after declining an invitation to attend, will not sit well with some Catholic voters.

That Kamala Harris is so tinny and unpersuasive on the border is, in large part, not a product of poor communications skills; rather it is part and parcel of a strategic choice to try to muddy the waters instead of admitting how and why the administration created an utterly avoidable debacle.

Throughout October, domestic violence programs across Maine have been and will be hosting various events and campaigns, honoring survivors and encouraging communities to move beyond awareness and act to end domestic abuse. But the work to end domestic violence doesn’t belong to October alone.

For over two decades, often-hysterical opposition from the American political left stalled deployment of an operational missile shield. Their hysteria was a fossil rite drawing on their Cold War opposition to President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative.

The tricks Donald Trump tried to play on the recent hurricane victims were beyond depraved.

The need to topple the theocratic regime in Tehran has become more critical as Iran nears the ability to produce and launch nuclear weapons against Israel and possibly the United States.

Elon Musk’s support of the man who tried to overthrow this country’s elected government does not speak of any strong attachment to American tradition, namely, the U.S. Constitution.

Barack Obama’s chiding of young Black men is not likely to sit well with them. That Democrats have taken the Black vote for granted is a given, but more are starting to ask “what have you done for us?”

We have yet to see former President Trump, the apparent source of much of this disinformation, take steps to become part of the solution, rather than add to the problems in episodes like these.