To William McNeal of Topsham: My adopted, 26 year-old, Korean born, naturalized, American daughter and I reviewed your letter of June 10. We thinks thou protesteth too much. My wife and I attended the Memorial Day parade at the intersection of Main and Elm in Tosham. Giving the Sagadahoc County Republicans, and the Cumberland County […]

States that came under Republican control with the rise of the Tea Party are facing the consequences of “no-new-taxes” pledges as they struggle to find money to provide funding for their states. Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist has had nearly 1,400 incumbents pledge to “no-new taxes” and to vote or veto “any and all efforts to […]

This world is but a canvas to our imagination. — Henry David Thoreau

“You don’t have to do this,” Tywanza Sanders said to the young man who suddenly rose and drew a gun, and according to witnesses, said he was there “to shoot black people.” He had been sitting in the Bible study session at Charleston, South Carolina’s, historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church for an hour, next […]

The American economy has supposedly long since recovered from the Great Recession. The stock market is doing exceptionally well and unemployment isn’t what it once was. Considering all of this, things should be looking up for most people. But for those who represent our nation’s future, they are not. Last year, the Federal Reserve Bank […]