Making sales tax optional for online sellers creates unfair competition for local retailers.
December 2014
Lessons of the bear referendum from someone actually on the front lines
Complicated wildlife management decisions are best made by trained professionals.
Bill mandating hard-wired CO detectors on way to Legislature
The legislation would expand the requirement to include all existing structures where people sleep.
Health care costs make us a nation of suckers
Are health care costs crippling? What about health insurance costs? We have to be a nation of suckers since we have the highest costs and the worst outcomes of all the advanced nations on Earth. I am too patriotic to fall for the idea my government has the money to pay $13,000 in my behalf, […]
Due diligence in UVA rape story?
Rolling Stone bears a great deal of responsibility for placing credibility of accuser in the spotlight.
Police have license to kill unarmed people
We who live in Maine should watch out. We too could be shot and killed by police, even if we’re unarmed. Michael Brown was unarmed when killed by Darren Wilson, a Ferguson, Mo., police officer. And Wilson is not going to be prosecuted — not for murder, not even for involuntary manslaughter. That’s because, in […]
Progressivism is current dominant religion
The dominant religion in the western world at the moment is progressivism, and whoever rejects the doctrines of progressivism is called a bigot one way or another (racist, sexist, antisemite, troglodyte, throwback). We might think the term “heretic” is an exaggeration to describe this matter, but think of it this way. In the past, religious […]
TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): Winthrop
Full Court Deli is a community gathering place with great food.
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: “The Happiest People in the World” and “Shadows on a Maine Christmas”
New books from Maine authors