February 2015
QUOTE OFTHE DAY
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Sales Tax Deception
Governor LePage’s plan to raise and broaden sales taxes has been likened to a Democratic initiative vetoed by Mainers back in 2010, in the same election whereby they chose LePage the first time around. If he actually forgot that, well, so did I. He defends any similarity by distinguishing that his plan also calls for […]
Our Loud, Proud Left
For the last week, liberal journalists have been furiously debating whether a new political correctness has swept over the American left. The instigator of this argument was New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait, normally a scourge of Republicans, whose essay on what he dubbed “the new P.C.” critiqued leftwing activists for their zeal to play language […]
Creating food from palatte’s past
There is nothing better than the gift of extra time at home, brought to us these past weeks by Mother Nature in the form of incessant snow. It turns out that the women I know are delighted to be home and most of us are relishing the luxury of delving into our pantries in search […]
CALENDAR
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Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: Would you please remind your readers that people who have been through an awful divorce DO NOT want to hear anything about their ex? We don’t want to hear — again and again — how much better the ex did in the settlement than we did. We don’t want to hear that the […]
Today in History
Today is Thursday, February 5, the 36th day of 2015. There are 329 days left in the year. On February 5, 1917, Mexico adopted its present constitution.