In Fourteen Hundred Ninety-Two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. In the year of our Lord Two Thousand Twelve, they’re trying hard his day to shelve.

To say that my last column generated a lot controversy would be putting it mildly. I wrote that I was considering not voting next month because I was disappointed in President Barack Obama’s performance in his first term.

States already are struggling to pay their Medicaid bills. Why put taxpayers on the hook to pay even more?

It was the biggest rout since Agincourt. If you insist, since the Jimmy Carter-Ronald Reagan debate. With a remarkable display of confidence, knowledge and nerve, Mitt Romney won the first 2012 debate going away.

With the national election a few weeks away, state policymakers have become pivotal players in the debate about health reform.

Barack Obama received a valuable reminder in his drubbing the first debate: He is a president, not a king.

The phone’s been ringing a lot lately, and often what I hear when I pick it up is a voice saying, “Hello. We’re conducting a poll, and we’d like to ask you some questions.”

Last week, Stanford University and New York University released a major study about the use of drones in the ever-evolving but never-ending war on terror. Unfortunately, many commentators missed the report’s key message: Drones are terrorizing an entire civilian population.

DENVER — Fifteen minutes into Wednesday night’s debate here, Mitt Romney politely called the president of the United States a liar.

As a retired teacher, I often wonder why it is that teachers in Maine are often underpaid and underappreciated.