Donald Trump shouldn’t fire Robert Mueller, but Mueller should be the last special counsel. The Mueller probe just took a Ken Starr turn with its lurch, via the Southern District of New York, into the Stormy Daniels affair. After the Starr investigation in the 1990s, there was a consensus that we weren’t doing that again, […]
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Double standard when it comes to investigations
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” — […]
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The daily struggle of traumatic head injury
At 5:45 a.m. on Jan. 7, 2004, Tiffany Field and her younger sister were rushing across a busy Route 73 — a four-lane highway —in Berlin, New Jersey, to catch the school bus. It was dark and the girls were both struck by a SUV. Both suffered serious brain injuries. Tiffany’s sister spent two weeks […]
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Followers fail to hold Pres. Trump responsible
“We kind of gave him — ‘All right, you get a mulligan. You get a do-over here.’” — Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, on the white evangelical response to Donald Trump’s alleged tryst with a porn star “He’s new at government, and so therefore I think that he is learning as he goes.” […]
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North Korea will be watching what Trump does in Syria
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s decision last year to launch 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian air base was intended to send the Assad regime a message that its use of chemical weapons would no longer be tolerated. But the strikes also had a broader purpose: showing other regimes that the Obama era of U.S. […]
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Paul Ryan — the last of the Reaganites
NEW YORK — Paul Ryan’s decision to retire from Congress is being interpreted as a sign by many that Republicans will do poorly in the midterm elections. That may be true, but Ryan’s exit also symbolizes a broad shift that has taken place within the party. It marks the end of the Reagan revolution. The […]
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Sometimes, you gotta be there
For many of us, reading is the most efficient way to learn. Newspaper, magazine, book or whatever your format may be. But the past 10 months have taught me that sometimes experience is the only teacher. You have to learn at first hand. You gotta be there. You may know from past columns that on […]
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Tonic immobility is an automatic reaction to trauma, fear and stress
Have you ever had a nightmare when something or someone was coming toward you, and you couldn’t run or call for help? You wanted to, but you just couldn’t move your legs at all, and when you tried to scream, no sound would come out of your mouth? I used to have dreams like that […]
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Let's Grow Maine: A plan to end hunger by 2020
“Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.” — Martin Luther King Jr. To achieve […]
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Will China overtake U.S. as leader of innovation?
WASHINGTON — Call it the Sputnik Syndrome. Ever since the launching of Sputnik in October 1957, Americans have feared that their economy, which at the end of World War II dominated the globe, would be overtaken by some other country. First was the Soviet Union. Remember (or maybe you don’t) that the-then Soviet leader Nikita […]