On July 1, Canada Day, Canadians awoke to a startling, if pleasant, piece of news: For the first time in recent history, the average Canadian is richer than the average American.
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MAINE COMPASS: Representative’s column used economic data out of context
For the record, Rep. Jeff McCabe is close friend and someone I have worked with in a bipartisan manner for four years, but I found myself a bit stunned by his recent column.
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GEORGE SMITH: Lilly Ledbetter, her battle should inspire all of us
This column about women’s issues is written for men. Of course, it would have to be, because I’m a man and know nothing about women’s issues.
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MAINE COMPASS: Military shouldn’t be prohibited from alternative energy quest
For months, certain lawmakers in Washington have tried to block Pentagon investments in alternative energy — investments that would reduce our military’s dependence on imported oil.
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MAINE COMPASS: Federal chemical safety system needs a complete overhaul
Five years ago, I was one of 13 Maine citizens who participated in a study of chemical pollutants in our bodies, “Body of Evidence.”
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DANA MILBANK: Days of great Senate leaders — Kennedy, Hatch, et al. — are gone
Four years ago, Ted Kennedy changed history with the sheer force of his will.
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LIZ SOARES: Daily supply of eggs not only reason to add chickens to family
“Did I tell you we have chickens?” my husband, Paul, said to his brother on a recent visit home to Massachusetts.
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COMMENTARY: It takes two for political gridlock
The 2012 race has produced a series of earnest, left-wing Republican bashing. In arguing that the “popular things (President Barack Obama) wants to do are being blocked by Republicans,” E.J. Dionne Jr. contributed to the genre.
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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Democratic dream of Arab Spring falls to Islamist ascendency
Post-revolutionary Libya appears to have elected a relatively moderate pro-Western government. Good news, but tentative because Libya is less a country than an oil well with a long beach and myriad tribes.
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COMMENTARY: Apologizing sometimes just isn’t enough
Jane Fonda was interviewed last month on the CBS “Sunday Morning” program. She discussed her difficult relationship with father Henry, her marriages, bouts with bulimia and how uncomfortable she has been for much of her life with her self-image, and she touched briefly on her film career.