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PublishedOctober 25, 2012
OUR OPINION: GOP spends like 2nd District might be bought
After watching from the sidelines, it's nice to see that Maine is on the battleground in this year's presidential election, even if it's only one of our two congressional districts.
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PublishedOctober 24, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: McGovern remained true to his time
It's been 40 years since George McGovern lost his run for the presidency -- lost so badly as to become a figure of fun to entertainers, a cautionary example to practicing politicians and, in myth at least, the creator of a movement known as "McGovernism," seen by many as wacky, weird and perhaps menacing.
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PublishedOctober 24, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Candidates both see role for US as global leader
Monday night, before President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney debated, a new Washington Post/ABC poll showed how treacherous a world this is -- for candidates.
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PublishedOctober 23, 2012
OUR OPINION: Farms being left without safety net
For half a century, a bipartisan bargain on agricultural policy worked well to balance the needs of urban and rural areas.
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PublishedOctober 23, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Defense of Marriage ruling should be upheld
Last week the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York became the second federal appeals court to rule that Congress violated the Constitution when it limited the definition of "marriage" in federal law to the union of a man and a woman.
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PublishedOctober 22, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Election season conspiracies border on inane
For all our enlightenment in this information age, conspiracy theories permeate American life, especially politics. Some of us will embrace such theories because they conveniently rubber-stamp suspicions or biases we have, even when evidence is clearly lacking.
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PublishedOctober 22, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Candidates can have embarrassing secrets
John Edwards pulled the rug out from under the supporters who had backed his run for the presidency in 2008 when the scandal about a mistress and illegitimate child hit the news.
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PublishedOctober 22, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Thanks to data mining, your life’s an open book
Do you watch college football? Listen to smooth jazz? Search the Internet for guidance about parenting, spirituality or a health concern? Look at pornography sites online?
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PublishedOctober 21, 2012
OUR OPINION: Expanding rights, not denying them, our best tradition
It's a reform that would make a radical and revolutionary change to our whole social system. It would weaken the family structure, which is the basic unit of a healthy society. It would violate tradition, nature and the religious teachings of nearly every faith.
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PublishedOctober 19, 2012
VIEW FROM AWAY: Presidential debate impact rising; 3rd act may be critical
In the second presidential candidate debate, an aggressive Mitt Romney and a rejuvenated Barack Obama faced a town hall forum grilling, with both playing well to their own camps.
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