“Nellie the Circus Elephant packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus. Off she went with a trumpety trump, trump trump trump.” That’s from a children’s song by Mandy Miller. I can’t think of a more appropriate theme song for Donald Trump’s campaign circus, especially since it is a child’s song, and the Trumpster’s […]
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Come to your own conclusions
In his letter (Jan. 21), Andrew Hall wrote that it had recently occurred to him that President Obama was making a mockery of the Constitution. That claim has been made for more than a year on a multitude of conservative blogs and sites. That is nothing new. During the past 10 or 15 years, conservatives […]
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Obama makes mockery of Constitution
Something interesting recently occurred to me. Barack Obama, the man who would be king, has made a mockery of the U.S. Constitution by whipping out his “executive authority” pen and circumventing Congress whenever he feels that legislative body is not doing his bidding. Dysfunctional or not, only Congress has the Constitutional authority to raise taxes […]
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Appalling treatment of human body
The situation near the corner of East Avenue and Lisbon Street (Monday, Dec. 7), when a woman’s lifeless body was left on public display to be photographed by sickening rubberneckers, simply cannot go unremarked. According to the Oxford Dictionary, “dignity” is, “The state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect.” There wasn’t any […]
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The stench of hypocrisy
The photos in the Sun Journal of the state champion Lewiston High School soccer team show most of the players are African-American. The photos of Lewiston’s opponents from Scarborough show a lily-white team. According to Bruce Noddin, in a letter to the editor (Nov. 7), which town is racist and which is a model of […]
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Mike Lachance impressed me
I’m not in the habit of rah-rahing any politician running for office, but I am making an exception for Lewiston Ward 7 Councilor Mike Lachance. He is not a politician. He’s an ordinary citizen serving his community. Politically, he’s not going any further than the City Council. He has made it clear he is not […]
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A. Hall: It’s all junk science to the liberals
I was bemused by Jeff Christiansen’s letter (Aug. 2). He implied only flat-Earth, right-wing conspiracy theorists ignore scientific, evidence-based conclusions. Only leftist liberals understand that momentous social decisions should be made based on scientific facts. Except, wait a minute here. Many whacko leftist causes don’t stand up to ideology-neutral scientific scrutiny, such as BPA, phthalates, […]
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A. Hall: Trash an issue in Lewiston
It seems the Lewiston City Council wants to force residents to pay $2 per bag for trash pick-up. That is on top of eliminating the annual bulk trash haul away, and a fee of $20 per year for a dump pass. Assuming two bags of trash per week, with fees, that is $228 per year. […]
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A. Hall: Beware of the real agenda
Pete McKeown nailed it with his letter (Sept. 25) on the dirty little secret underlying the anti-hunting referendum question on this year’s ballot. The Humane Society of the United States, PETA and their wealthy eco-elite cronies have as their stated goal the abolition of hunting — period. If Question 1 becomes law, my guess is […]
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A. Hall: Only fooling ourselves
While we dither away about GMOs, taxing plastic bags and confronting that latest threat to humanity (phthalates in our plastic bottles), there are people across the ocean (for now) who are trying their best to impose a new Dark Age on humanity. Those people are willing and able to kill and be killed for their […]