On Friday morning, Nov. 18, I nearly choked on my breakfast cereal when I opened the Kennebec Journal and saw, spread all across the top of the op-ed page, a diatribe against deer hunters by Paula Moore of PETA, the radical national animal rights organization.

The Penn State campus has been roiled with riots and recriminations since a longtime assistant football coach was arrested on child molestation charges — and revered head coach Joe Paterno was fired in the aftermath.

I am bemused by the old saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.”

Will Medicare premiums go up nearly 21/2 times over the next two years in order to pay for the health-care legislation signed by President Obama last year?

The week before Thanksgiving, while you weren’t looking, Congress and the president did something the vast majority of Americans opposes.

In case you’re one of the people who took part in this American atrocity called Black Friday — made even more obnoxious this year by corporations that are beginning the retail orgy on Thanksgiving Day — let me give you a little shopping advice.

Until last year I would have wholeheartedly agreed with those who think it is nuts to get up in the wee hours to stand in a long line to spend money on Black Friday. But my opinion changed.

The Obama administration may one day be enshrined as one of the great stewards and innovators of K-12 education. Administration policies driven by the Race to the Top competition have inspired millions.

As long ago as 1811, French writer Joseph de Maistre penned a letter in which he said, “Every country has the government it deserves.”