The Internal Revenue Service is worried: Too many Americans are under-reporting their income, either deliberately or by making mistakes on their tax returns.

The saying goes “to the victor goes the spoils,” and that’s apparently how Senate President Kevin Raye read the results of the last election.

It was a great exit line. Not as pithy as The Terminator’s “I’ll be back,” to be sure, but good-natured and hinting at the possibility of impending mayhem just the same.

Two-dozen visitors to the Washington Monument got a rare treat in advance of the July Fourth weekend.

When Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., quit the (no longer) bipartisan deficit-reduction talks last week, it was not exactly a “Profiles in Courage” moment.

Nothing is more appalling than the sight of the Rev. Fred Phelps and his tiny band of followers from the fringe Westboro Baptist Church protesting outside military funerals.

Mid-April is a lousy time to have a holiday in Maine. What do we really have to celebrate? Mailing in our tax returns? Confronting the trash left behind by the retreating snow drifts?

You know what Maine Republicans need? More Jimmer.