It’s hard to recall an outpouring of adulation by abortion supporters as has recently been showered on Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis.

A few months ago, I was close to supporting the proposal to expand Medicaid (MaineCare) in Maine. After all, who could argue with providing health insurance to more Mainers?

OK, so it turns out we really are Vacationland. While Maine’s job growth has lagged the nation’s, we matched the national rate of growth in leisure and hospitality.

The article about the 50-year-old blind woman who went sky-diving for her birthday was fantastic. There are a lot more of “us” out here just like her — and having a great time of it, too.

The trial of George Zimmerman, accused of fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, inevitably and quickly devolved into a contest of who is more racist — the victim or the accused?

There are inspirational posters in my doctor’s waiting room. One announces to those with aching bunions, open lesions or incipient Meniere’s disease, “Seeing what others don’t is another kind of vision.”

In just 11 hours Tuesday, Texas lawmaker Wendy Davis went from relative obscurity to national fame as the symbol of resistance to harsh anti-abortion laws. Davis, a Democrat from Fort Worth, filibustered a proposal that would place new restrictions on abortion clinics and ban the practice after 20 weeks.

This year, we celebrate the 141st anniversary of the birth of Calvin Coolidge and the invention of Vaseline.