There is much immigrants can relate to in MLK’s teachings Many of the immigrant and refugees who now call Maine home experienced many challenges in their countries of origin, in refugee camps, and now, here in the U.S. On this important day marked by the courage and dignity of Dr. Martin Luther King, we are […]
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You say tomahto, I say tomayto
The basket of names of men accused of sexual impropriety is filling right up. More than 100 so far. Now begins the pushback, and with it a long process of deciding whom to acquit in the court of public opinion, whom to forgive, whom to punish. Chief among the pushers back is Catherine Deneuve, excellent […]
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Educate young people about history of this community
Last year’s proposition to formally unite the governments of Lewiston and Auburn failed spectacularly and it is no wonder. The proponents waged a purely political campaign (which is to say, one of persuasion), trotting out endorsements from all of the local elite and appealing principally to community members’ pocket books. If a community were merely […]
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Democrats should give Trump his border wall
By Francis Wilkinson Bloomberg View Someone, somewhere, somehow is going to have to give President Donald Trump a piece of wall to stand in front of. It might as well be the Democratic congressional leaders Charles Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. The wall is not a good idea; it’s a colossal boondoggle in the making. That’s […]
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Compromise — the real measure of politicians
WASHINGTON — I repeat myself. For years, I have advocated a wall along our Southern border, which would (I believe) discourage illegal immigration without stopping it altogether. But let’s face it: Whatever the virtues or vices of a wall, it has largely become a political symbol. President Trump and Republicans love it; Democrats and immigration […]
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The 2018 Korean War Olympiad
Next month wealthy South Korea will host the XXIII Winter Olympics in PyeongChang — despite the on-going Korean War. Sorry, this is not a technicality but a bitter historical fact and dangerous political reality. The war between North and South Korea that began in 1950 continues. The 1953 armistice is not a peace treaty but […]
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Trump’s dancing monkeys show true selves
Sen. Lindsey Graham’s reputation as an honorable conservative lies like a ripped-up banana peel at the bottom of the baboon cage. What happened? What turned the principled voice from South Carolina, respected by Republicans and Democrats alike, into one of Donald Trump’s dancing monkeys? During the 2016 primaries, Graham warned about Trump: “I think he’s […]
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‘Fire and Fury’ not the book we needed
America desperately wanted this book. America desperately needed it, too. That’s why “Fire and Fury,” by journalist Michael Wolff, which purported to be a fly-on-the-wall, inside view of life in the Trump White House, shot to Number One on Amazon.com last week after Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to suppress it. It’s why bookstores had to […]
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Wolff latest to try demeaning Trump
“Everybody’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another beer.” — W.C. Fields Having lost an election they thought they would win and unable to get over it; having been staggeringly wrong about their predictions that a Trump presidency would be the end of global economies; now putting faith in a special counsel […]
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Will standard 2018 economic forcast be derailed?
WASHINGTON — For President Trump, a lot is riding on the economy in 2018. If it continues to do well, it should bolster his popularity and his claim that he understands it better than his critics. But if it slows or drops into a recession, it would weaken that claim — perhaps his strongest selling […]