The Maine Climate Council released its plan to achieve an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030. It may sound like an ambitious plan, but one that Maine – and the world – will have a very damaged and difficult future without; a world that you would not want to inflict on your children and […]
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Fatuma Hussein: Reflections while looking forward to 2021
Our system is unjust and broken. For many black and brown communities, we suffer a lot, and it is not right. Notably, it is not suitable for young people of color to feel helpless and hopeless. That harm must stop. Some may say that is not going to happen. I say, yes, we can. We can stop this injustice by eradicating racism, just like trying to eliminate the coronavirus. The pandemic has taught us valuable lessons.
Froma Harrop: The movie you want versus the movie you have
It is the job of the film critic to sniff at new movies. And so, it was expected that reviewers would drag “Wonder Woman 1984” onto the operating table. With other movies at other times, I might welcome their take on cinematography, character development and narrative drive. But with the fun pretty much wrung out […]
Cal Thomas: Biden’s climate change litmus test
From the looks of President-elect Joe Biden’s selections for cabinet positions and other high offices it seems belief in “climate change” has become a litmus test. Biden appears to have raised climate change to the level of a religious doctrine.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: Susan Collins – radical?
Few U.S. senators have had more political power in recent years than Susan Collins, Republican of Maine. Arguably, no one has made less use of her power than Collins. She often calls herself a moderate and has identified herself with Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, also a Republican from Maine. Smith, though, used her power to […]
Austin Bay: 2020’s bio-economic world war: Communist China lied; millions of human beings died
As 2021 begins, the Chinese Communist Party cover-up will continue. A CCP court just sentenced citizen-journalist Zhang Zhan to prison for questioning the CCP’s early 2020 falsehoods.
Zhan will spend four years in jail for telling the truth about communist China’s Big Lie.
Rich Lowry: Behold, the delivery revolution
What Amazon, and e-commerce more broadly, is doing is selling goods to consumers at low prices, while giving them more convenience than ever before (rapid delivery to their doorsteps, with the possibility of easy returns) and creating new jobs in the process.
Jesse Jackson: Georgia’s long history of voter suppression
Now that Donald Trump’s baseless lies about voter fraud have been summarily dismissed by the courts, perhaps some attention can be paid to the true threat to free and fair elections: not voter fraud but systemic and massive voter suppression.
Cal Thomas: A better 2021?
We can only hope that “next year all our troubles will be out of sight.” Given our present circumstances, I am doubtful.
Froma Harrop: The year we cultivated our gardens
Time to cultivate gardens was both a gift of, and cure for, 2020.