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PublishedAugust 24, 2013
‘LePageisms’ should not be governor’s legacy
Gov. Paul LePage has a particular manner of expressing himself. It is definitely consistent. I noticed in the newspaper article on Aug. 20 concerning his latest statement of note that the last person interviewed thought people are getting used to the governor's somewhat less than diplomatic remarks. "Oh, there goes LePage again" sort of attitude.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2013
GOP creating needless crisis over debt ceiling
If Republicans obstruct the debt ceiling increase, they will create a needless crisis, and they should be held accountable in the 2014 elections. While there are debt and deficit issues, the debt is not too high, the debt is going down, and the long-range problems are being addressed in a balanced and bipartisan way.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2013
The country cannot handle more handouts
I see that Obama now wants to add another $4 billion to $6 billion to our debt, which is rapidly approaching $17 trillion. He now wants to expand high-speed Internet service to allow students and teachers to use digital notebooks. Wow! Free Obama Internet service.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2013
Sentences highlight flawed justice system
I am writing about two stories in the Aug. 8 edition of the Morning Sentinel.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2013
Don’t misuse Bibleto push a political agenda
In the Rev. Jeremy Hiltz's letter to newspaper ("Obamacare exemplifies the way of Satan," Aug. 3), once again we see the Bible misrepresented to forward a political agenda. By way of rejecting Obamacare, the reverend tells us that Judas "wanted to force Mary to sell her private property to give to the poor," when in fact all he does is ask if the money spent on an expensive ointment could not be better used to help poor people (John 12:1-8.) True, Jesus says the poor are always with us, but he does not say that means we should do nothing to alleviate poverty. Indeed, in Matthew 19:21-22, he tells a rich man to sell all he has and give the money to the poor, a command the reverend wrongly ascribes, as we've seen, to Judas. Jesus continues, "A rich man will hardly enter the kingdom of heaven." The reverend also says, "Conscripted giving at the point of financial or criminal penalty" is not virtuous, and "Taking another person's earned wealth by force and redistributing it hardly exemplifies the Christian way." But in Acts 5:1-11, when a married couple hold back half of their wealth from St. Peter, they are instantly stricken dead. You can't use much more force than that. The text continues, "And great fear came upon all the church and upon as many as heard these things." So "taking another person's earned wealth by force" was "the Christian way" right from the beginning. Being a good Christian means accepting all of the New Testament and not ignoring or altering select passages to support a special agenda.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2013
Comics omission definitely for the worse
Ironically, on the same day (Aug. 18) Editorial Page Editor Ben Bragdon claims that the newspaper wants to "bring all our readers in on the discussion," you report having to remove "For Better or for Worse" from the Sunday comics in your effort to make the newspaper "even funnier." Did you solicit opinions opinions from readers about this to determine which Sunday comics we value the most? Or did you take a page out of the playbook of Time Warner, which removed Showtime from its cable line-up without asking subscribers how we felt about it?
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PublishedAugust 22, 2013
Truck drivers should stop making unwanted noise
On Monday, Aug.12, a truck turning on to Beech Hill Road from Route 2 used its engine brake, making an incredible racket. It was impossible to continue conversation.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2013
Goverment’s to blame for Social Security deficit
On paper, Social Security is self-funded but under the "unified budget" law passed by the Democrat-controled Congress in the 1980s, the $2.8 trillion surplus referred to the Aug. 10 Kennebec Journal has been used to buy government bonds, in other words, to fund ongoing federal budget deficits. Thus, future Social Security payments in excess of collections will be funded by increasing the already excessive federal deficit.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2013
Big-league baseball needs to be overhauled
It's time for a major change in Major League Baseball.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2013
Hiltz knows Scripture better than detractors do
Responding to the Gill/Hiltz thread, it was the Rev. Jim Gill (July 25) who alluded to the Affordable Care Act as "Obamacare," not the Rev. Jeremy Hiltz (Aug. 3). Hiltz disagreed with "Health care for 'the least' exemplifies the Christian way," which Gill did not actually pen. (The editor did.) Michael Poland (Aug. 13) objecting to Hiltz's use of "Obamacare" as political apparently missed its origin with Gill. (So it's OK if a liberal says "Obamacare," but offensive if a conservative does? Odd.)
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