It’s a symptom of our time that a tape of the future president of the United States discussing machinations related to an alleged affair with a former Playboy Playmate isn’t truly a blockbuster. The brief snippet of conversation between Donald Trump and his lawyer Michael Cohen about buying the story of former Playmate Karen McDougal, […]
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Socialism will never be the answer for America
For the current generation, sometimes referred to as millennials, it appears one thing is more seductive than sex — and that’s socialism. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, winner of a New York Democratic primary, are the old and new faces of socialist America. Their platforms, it appears, hinge on the concept of […]
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Prayer a way to help face life’s tribulations
All she asked was that someone pray for her. As relayed on Twitter by the activist Brittany Packnett, the unnamed woman certainly had good reason to seek help, divine or otherwise. She was one of the people held hostage by a gunman last week in an L.A. Trader Joe’s. According to Packnett, her friend was […]
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U.S. gains reputation as being hostile to the global order
NEW YORK — Listen closely. That sound you heard at Wednesday’s joint press conference between the presidents of the European Commission and the United States was Donald Trump backtracking once again. This has become a familiar routine. It goes something like this: Begin by hurling insults at the other side, some of which have a […]
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Trump is using tariffs to advance a radical free-trade agenda
WASHINGTON — Give President Trump credit. When he chastised NATO allies over their failure to spend adequately on our common defense, his critics said he was endangering the Atlantic alliance. Instead, his tough stance persuaded allies to spend billions more on defense, strengthening NATO instead. Now, Trump is doing the same on trade. At the […]
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Life (is) on the streets
By the time I saw “The Front Page,” the show about hard-bitten police reporters in Chicago, the story may have been a bit of an anachronism. The play and movie painted a picture of reporters who came from the street and worked on the street. They weren’t cops or criminals, but they got their living […]
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The conservative 'agenda'
During the past 4 1/2 years we at the “Another View” have written well over 200 columns for Maine newspapers. We articulate thoughts and policy that represent our views on a wide range of subjects. Quite frequently we receive comments from folks who differ from us that indicate that we have some sort of “agenda” […]
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Are fresh mussels from the ocean a thing of the past?
As soon as I was old enough to scramble down to the tidal pools in front of my grandparent’s house in Harpswell, I was in charge of plucking fresh mussels off our front rocks for my grandmother to cook for dinner. I would come up just minutes later to the kitchen with barnacle-scraped feet, carrying […]
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Economic sanctions, not words, will hurt Iran
It’s Tehran’s turn for the “fire and fury” treatment. In response to Iranian President Hasan Rouhani telling Donald Trump not to “play with the lion’s tail” because “war with Iran is the mother of all wars,” the president fired back in an emphatically all-caps tweet warning of “CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY […]
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Understanding the ETF debate
WASHINGTON — Can we make sense of ETFs? If you’re in the investing class, you doubtlessly know that ETF stands for “exchange-traded fund.” Along with index mutual funds, they track a given stock or bond index. The best-known ETFs mirror the Standard and Poor’s 500 stock index. If the S&P 500 goes up, so do […]