For the first time since the revelation of the National Security Agency’s vast dragnet of all Americans’ telephone records, a federal court has ruled that such surveillance is “significantly likely” to be unconstitutional. In a scathing 68-page opinion peppered with exclamations of incredulity, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon found that the seven-year-old phone-data collection program […]

After the autumn government shutdown, a chastened House and a somewhat more smug Senate decided to deal with the automatic cuts put in place to deal with the “debt crisis”, known as the sequester, in a conference committee. A conference committee is a group of people from both houses of Congress, the House and the […]

In his article in The Times Record on Nov. 20 (“Tea party suffers the violent rhetoric of the Left,” Page A6), Edward A. Tharp complains that the tea party receives an unfair share of criticism from the Left, into which he lumps Senator King, who is likewise accused of calling the tea party derogatory names. […]

To the Editor: I have been dismayed since the beginning of August with the dismal performance of Mary Mayhew, Maine’s Secretary of Health and Human Services. In particular, she has overseen the demise of free rides to medical appointments for the elderly and disabled who are on MaineCare. She has outsourced our once-local service, which […]