Black lives don’t matter. It is a message that has, for centuries, been woven like thread into the fabric of this nation. It was there when the Supreme Court said black people had no rights white people were bound to respect, there when Nazi POWs were seated at a Southern diner while black soldiers were […]
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Leftists have no problem with their double standards
We’ve come a long way from harmless playground jibes like “your mother wears combat boots,” to those of today from the likes of Samantha Bee and other leftist “entertainers” who say things about President Trump and his family that are so vulgar they can’t be printed in a newspaper or quoted on television. Some of […]
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Immigration policy could be improved
President Trump’s sound and fury on immigration has delivered close to nothing. Trump never lets up, thundering against “illegal aliens” as a criminal class while pushing his enforcers to treat the impoverished ones without mercy. But actually, illegal immigration is again rising — and significantly. So much for the “Trump effect.” Here’s the naked truth: […]
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Roseanne Barr was a kook long before Trump became president
Valerie Jarrett, the former Obama aide targeted by Roseanne Barr, says the comedienne’s train wreck should be a “teaching moment.” And so it should — about the poisonous kookery of Roseanne Barr. Given the political freight piled atop the hit revival of her TV program, it was inevitable that Barr’s spectacular Twitter flameout would be […]
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Steve Bannon's strategy for a populist victory
ROME — The Republican Party is facing dim prospects in the upcoming midterm elections. But it doesn’t have to be that way, says Steve Bannon, the chief ideologist of the populist wave that brought Donald Trump into the White House. “If the Republicans continue on the path they are on,” Bannon told me Thursday, “they […]
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NFL makes gains but has more work to do
It took two years, boycotts by fans, declining TV ratings, growing alarm among advertisers, a drop in the sale of gear and especially a public shaming by President Trump, but the owners of NFL teams have finally decided their players will not be allowed to kneel or make other protests during the playing of the […]
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A fantastic opportunity for Rumford area
I read with great interest the report in the Sun Journal that Nine Dragons Paper Company was purchasing the Rumford Paper Mill (Saturday, May 26). What a fantastic situation this sale proffers for local people and their community. At long last, the area has a potential future. At long last, the area has an anchor […]
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Candidate not fit to be running for DA
I don’t use this column to pick sides among qualified candidates contending for elective office, but I consider it a public service to comment on a candidate who’s unqualified for office. Seth Carey, one of two Republican primary contenders who will face incumbent Andrew Robinson in the November 2018 race for district attorney of Androscoggin, […]
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Racism built into the culture
For starters, I never cared for the coffee. Bitter, maybe over roasted. When my son treated me once in Boston, his tab for two coffees — not frappuccinos, lattes or espressos — was $8. Two black coffees, $8. That was my only Starbucks coffee. I couldn’t handle the bitterness and the price, so for one […]
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RFK and the nation we might have been
It made my mother scream. That’s what I remember. I had been lying dozy in bed, but at the sound of her, I scrambled into the living room. She was standing before the television watching an image of chaos in a hotel ballroom. Although I grew up in the 1960s, very few of the signal […]