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The Right View: 2015 could be the year of the Maine conservative

Happy New Year! What better way to ring in 2015 than to highlight the bright spots conservatives the state over can hopefully, as well as assuredly, anticipate. We’re a year closer to President Obama’s exit from our national stage. Thank God. I’m choosing to focus on that, rather than the havoc he will try to […]

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Letter: Columnist displays selective news judgment

In Julie McDonald-Smith’s last column, she declared that the “news media has lost credibility, and is firmly in the tank for all things progressive, and simply cannot be trusted to report the news.” This appears six paragraphs after she quotes an article from the Bangor Daily News with which she apparently agrees. Assuming that McDonald-Smith […]

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Intentionally Unreasonable: We are the new barbarians

The Roman Empire was a brutal era that featured gladiators who routinely fought slaves, other gladiators and wild animals, usually to the death, while thousands of people cheered. The floor of the Roman Coliseum was a pool of blood by the end of each event. The Romans were sadistic and barbaric thugs who assigned little […]