The United States can’t sustain the pay, allowances, retirement and health benefits that the all-volunteer military force and their families enjoy, according to a study by the Defense Department’s Reserve Forces Policy Board.

We were robbed. I expected it but was still surprised.

Gov. Paul LePage made two strong statements when he announced the contents of his budget proposal, but I’m not sure they were the ones he intended to make.

Several significant things converged Monday as President Barack Obama put his hand on two Bibles and took the oath of office.

How disappointing to see David Trahan (Maine Compass: “Maine Constitution affirms owning firearms is individual right”) arguing from the alarmist perspective of the National Rifle Association and other groups that refuse to engage in the hard work of balancing the right to bear arms with the obvious public safety concerns.

To the world-weary, Lance Armstrong’s confession to Oprah Winfrey was just one more in a series.

Once upon a time, many years ago (really, the late ’60s or early ’70s), I gave back a bunch of papers written by students in my Problems of Philosophy class.

It has become conventional wisdom that Republicans are suffering an internal split that President Barack Obama is successfully exploiting to neuter the Republican House. It is not true, however, that the Republican split is philosophical and fundamental. And that a hopelessly divided GOP is therefore headed for decline, perhaps irrelevance.