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Who are the haters?

A battle has raged in the Maine Legislature over Heather Sirocki’s LD 1904, a bill to criminalize the brutal practice of female genital mutilation. Rep. Sirocki has been a magnificent warrior for children. Yet, the Southern Poverty Law Center has come out labeling ACT for America as a hate group and LD 1904 as a […]

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Taking all the guns?

School shooting … take the guns and it will never happen again? You’ll never get them all. The insane will not give them up, but neither will the criminals or terrorists. Schools? Not safer. Some law-abiding people will be criminalized and you might just unleash a civil war. On Oct. 29, 2009, a group including […]

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Do what is right for Maine

As the chapter leader of the Norway region of ACT for America, I lead more than 100 Maine citizens. We brought LD 745 (the criminalization of female genital mutilation) to the Maine Legislature through our wonderful sponsor, Heather Sirocki. The Democrats in the House fought this bill almost from the start, except within the committee […]

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Obstructionist Democrats

Rep. Heather Sirocki, R-Scarborough, proposed LD 745, which would criminalize the practice of female genital mutilation — a practice found prevalent in Middle East cultures. It involves the cutting of the genitalia of usually younger girls so they are incapable of experiencing sexual pleasure, supposedly to keep them from straying in later life. It can […]

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Civil war brewing

Recently, the American Laws for American Courts bill failed out of committee, yet again; it was 7-6 “ought not to pass.” That is better than the first two times (8-1 and 9-3). At least the six Republicans voted for it this time. The left is actively and consciously working to derail/destroy America. They hate it. […]

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J. Bristol: Against the proposed charter school

I am deeply suspicious of the ulterior motives of the group proposing the Lewiston-Auburn Academy Charter School. At the public hearing, which I attended and at which I spoke, both Twin City school department superintendents testified about misrepresentations in the school’s application to the Maine Charter School Commission. The Lewiston School Board chairman noted that […]