“With great power, there must also come great responsibility.” — Stan Lee, Amazing Fantasy #15, 1962 The truth is dead, and Facebook killed it. That’s not nearly as much of an exaggeration as you might wish. Consider that the social media colossus was the platform of choice for a video that blazed across the internet […]

Total births in the United States fell last year to about 3.79 million, the smallest number in 32 years. The fertility rate hit a record low of 59 childbirths per 1,000 women. Americans are not having enough children to replace themselves. This supposedly is bad news. Headlines are crying about a “Shortage of Americans” and […]

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the release of self-admitted “American Taliban” member John Walker Lindh “unexplainable and unconscionable.” Lindh, who was paroled last Thursday from a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, served 17 years of a 20-year sentence for illegally aiding Taliban forces. Lindh had joined the terrorist organization before September 11, 2001. […]

WASHINGTON — At last count, China held slightly more than $1 trillion in U.S. Treasury securities. One fear has been that, should China and the United States engage in an economic war — as they clearly are now — those dollars could become a weapon against us. The Chinese would sell dollars in foreign exchange […]

President Donald Trump may be guilty of many things, but a cover-up in the Mueller probe isn’t one of them. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, attempting to appease forces in the Democratic Party eager for impeachment, is accusing him of one, with all the familiar Watergate connotations. The charge is strange, not to say incomprehensible, in […]

America is facing a student debt crisis. Nationally, education borrowing has tipped the $1.5 trillion mark, putting it ahead of every debt category except mortgages. The national student debt crisis is hitting Maine hard. Mainers hold more than $6 billion in education debt. Our state ranks among the highest average debt load in the nation, […]

“I pray for the president of the United States. And I pray for the United States of America.” — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “ … Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.” — James 2:17 You almost felt sorry for Nancy Pelosi. There was something poignant in seeing her driven […]

Among the many things that frustrate Americans about Washington, D.C., is the unwillingness — not inability, but unwillingness — to solve problems. One of many examples is the U.S. national debt, now more than $22 trillion and counting. As Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James has written, “The federal budget is at the core of […]