WASHINGTON — In announcing his decision to withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, President Trump cited Russia’s repeated violations and the fact that the treaty does not bind China, which is engaged in the world’s most ambitious ballistic missile development program. But Trump’s withdrawal may also be designed for another purpose. It […]
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Question 1 would have disastrous effect on Maine's economy
Like all of Maine’s candidates for governor, the Maine State Chamber of Commerce opposes Question 1 on the statewide ballot this November. Regardless of one’s view on whether helping senior citizens and the disabled with home care merits consideration, this question’s tax increase would have a disastrous impact on Maine’s economy. For that reason alone, […]
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So now it is real explosive devices
What Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, former Attorney General Eric Holder, CNN and George Soros have in common is that each looms large in the right wing’s pantheon of liberal demons. And each has been sent a pipe bomb. So much for Donald Trump’s fantasies of left-wing mobs fomenting violence. This is the real thing. Investigations […]
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Weasel gnaws into coop, kills ducks
Disaster hit my duck coop this past week. Apparently some critter had gnawed a hole in the section that served as the laying area, which is just outside the coop but attached to it, and got into the main part of the coop. When I went outside to let the ducks out for the day, […]
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McConnell could be the most consequential conservative leader of the century
WASHINGTON — Recently, left-wing protesters accosted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a Kentucky restaurant, yelling at him that he was a “traitor.” But not so long ago, it was tea party conservatives who were calling McConnell a traitor to the GOP. They owe him an apology. While President Trump deserves credit for making outstanding […]
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Refugee waves and migrant marches
The 1994 Rwandan genocide of ethnic Tutsis and Hutu moderates forced hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee to neighboring sub-Saharan African countries. Key point: The burden of providing immediate care for physically threatened refugees always falls on the “host country,” even unwilling hosts. A second key point: A flood of refugees is not a […]
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Elected officials lack the will to address national debt
As difficult as it may be to believe, there was a time when Republicans were known as the anti-debt and balanced budget party. Now, the GOP prefers to tout low unemployment as the debt soars and they are co-conspirators in its rise. It’s not that Republicans (and once-fiscally responsible Democrats) lack a way out of […]
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Exactly how does ‘black racism’ impact your life?
I have a question for white people. I will preface it with an excerpt from a recent email sent by a reader named James. He wrote: “It is the blacks who are by far the most racist of all people as they can’t seem to simply forget their damn color and move on with life, […]
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Stop obsessing over Trump insults
It’s getting more difficult by the day to tune in to MSNBC. My chief complaint isn’t the leftish slant. It’s the news channel’s obsession with the latest idiocy to emerge from the Trumpian yap. Anyone who wants to express dismay that Trump called a woman “Horseface” is certainly entitled to, but not on my time’s […]
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Is it time to revive antitrust laws? Maybe, maybe not
WASHINGTON — Competition is dying. That’s the latest complaint against American business. We have too many super-sized firms, excessively large and unnaturally profitable. Dubious mergers, permitted by toothless antitrust laws, boost companies’ market power and squash rivals. The lifeblood of a dynamic economy is competition; its erosion — if true — would be a momentous […]