During the past seven and a half years, through hard work and sacrifices, workers and businesses in Maine and across America have weathered the recession. But while the economy has improved overall, working families and small towns across the country still have yet to fully feel the benefits of recovery. In order to move the […]
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New York nonplused by bomb threats
The explosives going off in the dumpster in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea was not a major terrorist event — except on the TV news channels. No one was killed, fortunately. And thanks to superb police work, a suspect was captured within 48 hours. On the night after, Sunday, trains from the northern suburbs were […]
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Maduro’s Venezuela: Imploding into chaos
Despite the touts that it would “be remembered for centuries,” Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro’s non-aligned summit proved to be a less-than-memorable bust. The non-aligned nation summit, held in Caracas from September 16-18, was supposed to showcase Maduro as a radical and resilient socialist leader. Instead, it revealed Venezuela’s weakness and exposed Maduro as delusional. […]
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Trump doesn’t try to hide what he is
We’ve called him many things. We pundits have overworked our thesauruses and our imaginations to describe Donald Trump. Kathleen Parker called him “the biggest goofball ever to enter the Oval Office sweepstakes.” Nicholas Kristof called him “ill-informed,” “deceptive,” “vacuous” and a “crackpot.” Yours truly called him “a tire fire in an expensive suit.” But if […]
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Questions debate moderator Holt should ask
Next week’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton could determine the outcome of the election. As polls show Trump leading in some swing states and closing the gap in others, it appears the only burden he must overcome is the one Ronald Reagan shared, looking presidential enough that voters trust him with so […]
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Federal Reserve no longer all-powerful
WASHINGTON — The betting is that the Federal Reserve won’t raise interest rates at the meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, its key policymaking body. There are already complaints that the Fed, which cut short-term rates to near zero in late 2008, is waiting too long to reverse low rates. Last December, the Fed […]
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Trump has chance to win presidency
If you aren’t seriously contemplating the biggest black swan event in American electoral history, you aren’t paying attention. Fifteen months ago, Donald Trump was a reality-TV star with a spotty business record and a weird penchant for proclaiming that he was on the verge of running for president. Now, he’s perhaps a few big breaks […]
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Trump unfit for the job, so what are we?
“I know you are, but what am I?” Maybe you remember that one from the schoolyard. It was one of those unanswerable taunts — “I’m rubber, you’re glue” was another — widely favored by smart-alecky kids, a bit of verbal judo that took an attacker’s thrust and turned it back against her. “I know you […]
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Clinton continues pattern of hiding the truth
In 1996, The New York Times columnist William Safire diagnosed Hillary Clinton’s real problem. He called her a “congenital liar.” Congenital is defined as “having by nature a specified character.” Following Hillary Clinton’s health scare Sunday in New York, we may have reached the conclusion author Mary McCarthy did when speaking of playwright Lillian Hellman: […]
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New political landscape not concerned with economic issues
NEW YORK — Whether you put them in a basket or not, the question of this election is — who are Donald Trump’s supporters? One way to answer is to widen its scope beyond the United States. Trump is part of a broad populist trend running across the Western world. Over the past few decades, […]