Folks are getting a lot of political messages these days via mail, email, television, roadside signs and so forth. One can find some hysteria on both sides of the aisle, but lately some of the messages from the Republican side have become hilarious or alarming — take your pick. This just came from the FedUp […]
Edward Walworth
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Parade is a waste of money
President Donald Trump’s plans for a military parade make as much sense as his plans for a border wall. According to him, both would be beautiful displays of American might. Many of us can remember the military parades in Moscow’s Red Square featuring troops, tanks and missiles passing in review as scowling Soviet leaders looked […]
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A healthier, happier state
Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of Great Britain in the late 1800s, once said: “The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depends.” In other words, the healthier the population, the happier and stronger their country. By extension, the economy would be […]
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A crippled America
In 2015, a book was published called “Crippled America.” The picture of the author, a scowling Donald Trump, was on the cover. The book described a country weakened by special interests and career politicians — a country that would be better served by a businessman. Trump’s campaign to drain the swamp carried him to the […]
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Making America irrelevant
As the weeks after Jan. 20 come and go, it seems to me that the phrase “Make America great again” is being replaced by “Let’s make America irrelevant.” The nation’s credibility on the world stage is being questioned. Foreign heads of state have been slighted, as has the State Department. Fewer foreign travelers, even those […]
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Gov. LePage misinformed
Gov. Paul LePage has come out swinging against all of the referendum issues that will appear on the Nov. 8 ballot. Furthermore, he declared that Questions 1, 3 and 5 were unconstitutional. He went on to say that Question 3, concerning universal background checks, would also create a gun registry. Just where in the wording […]
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Mainers campaigning for referendum
Krysta Lilly of The Maine Heritage Policy Center decries out-of-state support for the upcoming universal-background-check referendum in November (letter, June 14). Michael Bloomberg, founder of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, is helping pass the referendum through a related group, Mainers for Responsible Gun Ownership. Lilly claims that there is no homegrown or grassroots support for the […]
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Society running amok with guns
Once again, V. Paul Reynolds sounded the alarm about threats to gun rights in his column: “Sportsmen lost a good friend when Justice Scalia died” (March 13). A long time hunter, the justice was instrumental in the District of Columbia v. Heller decision in 2008 which supported the right of an individual to own a […]
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Preserve the planet as we know it
The Thursday, Dec. 17, issue of the Sun Journal carried tandem columns by Rich Lowry and Cal Thomas on the issue of climate change. Lowry dismissed the Paris accord while Thomas dismissed the phenomenon entirely. How does Thomas explain the gradually rising high-tide mark in Maine, the northward migration of lobsters in search of cooler […]
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A better way to safeguard America
How ironic that Gov. Paul LePage, stating that he wants to ensure the safety of Maine citizens, wants to prevent Syrian refugees from coming to Maine. Republican governors and congressmen are falling all over each other to safeguard the Americans from the fearsome widows and children who are fleeing Assad and ISIS. We have all […]