The “American Heritage Dictionary” defines fascism as: “A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with a belligerent nationalism.” We do not have a dictatorship yet. We do have a growing number of right-wing extremists and, more and more, our governments […]
April 2011
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‘Murder in America is like a cancer’
Murder in America is like a cancer. It seems like we are both losing and saving lives. People are murdered by abortions, overdoses of drugs and alcohol and at the hands of criminals. People are saved by Jesus Christ, technology and recycling. How can we win over the murderers, you know “thou shalt not kill” […]
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VIDEO: Monmouth moviemaker wins film festival award
MONMOUTH — The makers of “Scooter McGruder” left Saturday’s L/A Film Festival with a little more hardware than when they arrived.
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Selectman charged with OUI pleads not guilty
Stephen Pierce, 60, a Carrabassett Valley selectman, was arrested March 6 in the Old Port.
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Park Service ordered to release documents
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — A former Acadia National Park restaurant employee has won his lawsuit seeking park documents about a 2008 confrontation between park rangers and a group of young people atop the park’s Day Mountain that left him with serious facial injuries. The Bangor Daily News says federal Judge John Woodcock has ordered […]
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Maine tribal police chief guilty of theft
Joseph Barnes of Pleasant Point stole more than $33,000 to feed a gambling habit.
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AG declines to issue opinion on Brown
Maine House Democrats have questioned Daryl Brown’s eligibility to run the DEP.
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Text of Gadhafi’s letter to Obama
“Our dear son, Excellency, Baraka Hussein Abu oumama, your intervention is the name of the U.S.A. is a must . . .”
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Ex-Libyan official: Regime ‘just going mad’
Gadhafi’s former energy minister says top officials fear for their lives.
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Hurricane forecasters predict 9 in Atlantic
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Weather forecasters at Colorado State University are predicting an above-average hurricane season for the Atlantic Ocean. The forecast issued today is a slightly scaled-back version of the one released in early December. Researchers now predict 16 named storms in the Atlantic, instead of 17. Nine of those storms are expected to […]