The U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice considers adultery a crime, as news coverage of the resignation of Central Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus has shown.

According to the New York Daily News, the government-initiated website “We The People” has been bombarded by petitions since the election.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told people with questions about Obamacare that “you’ll have to pass the law in order to see what’s in it,” and she was right.

I’m glad the election is over. Who isn’t? Who isn’t grateful to be free of the TV ads, the email, the robo-calls, the junk mail, the horserace news coverage?

When Republicans claim that this was a status quo election, they point to their continued hold on the House. The 2012 congressional vote, some have said, didn’t undo the party’s 2010 successes.

Whew. I’m some old glad that’s over! You may not remember the song, “Glad All Over,” but I’ve been singing that tune for the past week, with new words.

The recent elections in our state were nothing short of a progressive wave. Maine voted to re-elect President Barack Obama, elect Angus King to the U.S. Senate with more than 50 percent of the vote, return Democrats Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree to Congress with wide margins of victory, and decisively pass same-sex marriage.

WASHINGTON — And now begins the quadrennial exercise of coming to terms with the loss of a presidency.

Some might say jobs and sports make strange bedfellows. But for many veterans with disabilities who are determined to regain a complete sense of identity, the two are linked without question.

My earliest memories of Veterans Day are filled with images of my dad telling me that “on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the year before I was born, World War I ended.”