For years conservative groups and especially the National Rifle Association have been warning that the government would find a way to confiscate the guns of law-abiding Americans. Many dismissed what they regarded as a scare tactic designed to raise money. What is happening in St. Louis should awaken us to the fact that those fears […]

While it might seem like just another internet oddity, the group might actually be fulfilling basic human needs — especially while people are isolated during a pandemic.

If only mobs were allowed to destroy federal property without consequence. Then, there wouldn’t have to be any dispute over federal agents defending a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon; it could simply be overrun and burned to the ground with no unwelcome resistance. As it is, Portland’s Mayor Ted Wheeler, who presides over a city […]

I expected despair. I should have known better. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 had just been eviscerated by the Supreme Court. So I called Georgia Rep. John Lewis, for whom passage of the Act was the defining event of a heroic life, thinking his discouragement would mirror mine. Lewis started talking instead about how […]

Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting. In less colorful words, securing water is worth going to war. Ethiopia and Egypt are now engaged in a vicious struggle over Nile River water rights. Their confrontation began well over a decade ago. If the opening epigram strikes you as cliche Hollywood western dialogue, then good […]

Will there be a vaccine against coronavirus? Eventually, we pray. But in this age of unreason, undue attention is already being paid to those who may refuse protection against this often-fatal disease. We hear paranoid talk of shadowy government figures coming to your home to “force-vax you.” Never mind that. When a credible vaccine finally […]

I am not in the habit of quoting leftist Noam Chomsky, but this line seems relevant when one considers our growing national debt: “When you trap people in a system of debt, they can’t afford the time to think.” Perhaps now is not the time in the middle of a pandemic, job losses and threats […]

The Biden campaign has been lucky most of all, but it’s also been smart, at least smart enough. To go, as Joe Biden did, from left for dead to sweeping to the Democratic nomination and quickly thereafter emerging as the favorite in November is a run of success that would be the envy of any […]

A story published on July 12 that examined a five-year period of arrest data in Lewiston and Auburn did not include comments provided to the Sun Journal by Auburn Police Chief Jason Moen. The questions that were asked and his responses are below: Q: Considering U.S. Census figures estimated the Black African American (alone) population […]

If the Trump family had never existed, someone would have invented them. Indeed, they’d have been right at home in some over-the-top TV soap produced by Aaron Spelling. As depicted in “Too Much and Never Enough,” Mary L. Trump’s lacerating new portrait of her uncle Donald and the loveless clan that produced him, they are […]