This is in regard to an article in the Sun Journal (Aug. 30): “PETA wants tombstone for lobsters that died in crash.” At first, I laughed in disbelief, but then I realized that it’s not so funny. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals group wants a fancy five-foot granite tombstone to be placed […]
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Consistent with labeling?
In response to Seri Lowell’s letter (Oct. 3), I must be one of those white-skinned, Bible-toting, radical religious extremists she referred to when writing about, ironically, being consistent with labeling. She wrote that “The nation’s founders took great care not to establish a ‘Christian nation,’” but let’s ask those men about that: John Adams, on […]
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Businessman should lighten up
As I was reading the Sun Journal on Saturday morning (July 1), I couldn’t believe how the Sun Journal wasted space on a front page article about businessman Andrew Knight moving back out of Maine citing “this strong negativity” “that’s very, very taxing” as his reason for doing so. Knight complained that “the belief that […]
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A different understanding of hell
This is in response to William LaRochelle’s claim (March 4) that Jesus Christ made up the doctrine of hell. Rather than lamely citing agnostics such as Charles Darwin and Mark Twain, LaRochelle should study the Bible with an open heart and mind before determining to libel Jesus as a lying fool. LaRochelle claims the teaching […]
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Let President Trump do his job
When I read the letter to the editor from Mary Jane Newell of Oxford (Jan. 24), I knew there’d be some backlash. Sure enough, Kevin Kimble from Lisbon responded with some sarcasm (Jan. 28), but also with great wit. He has my respect, and I thank him for his service. However, while Newell may have […]
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Four more years?
Hillary Clinton’s speech, re: Bosnia, 1996: “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.” She later said, “There was no greeting ceremony, and we […]
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Poor choice for hotel location
A new hotel could be good for Rumford, but locating it near the bottom of a hill with a corner on a three-way highway intersection might be a nightmare. Accidents have happened when vehicles stopped on the corner on the bottom of Falls Hill to let people cross the street by the information booth, or […]
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Coming could be at any time
This is in response to William LaRochelle’s letter, “It appears we’re in the end times” (Jan. 2). In it, he said, “If Jesus Christ was God incarnate, then he was truth incarnate … But the undeniable fact is, he was mistaken in prophesying that his second coming was imminent — an inseparable message from the […]
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Veterans truly are the heroes
This is in response to Michael Gibson’s rather sophomoric, but perhaps sincere, letter to the editor (Oct. 30), in which he insulted the laid-down lives of the military. Gibson also mishandled the character, purpose and name of Jesus Christ in order to bolster his rhetoric against war and the armed services. Isaiah prophesied that Jesus’ […]
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D. Theriault: Thinking outside the box
This is in response to Scott Roberts’ letter (July 30) in which he wrote about my response (July 23) to Dwight Murphy’s objection to the extensive burdening of taxpayers in order to give immigrants “everything they want” (July 21). Roberts said that I was apparently confusing logic with literalism in describing my samplings of Maine […]