Our capitulation has swept aside considerations of future security risks, personal freedoms in the country and obligations to those we helped.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Texas upends the Republican ‘leave us alone coalition’
The state’s restrictive abortion law threatens to destroy an uneasy truce among several factions of the conservative movement.
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Commentary: Why this former corridor opponent will vote ‘no’ on Question 1
Regardless of how you feel about CMP, retroactive lawmaking should make you concerned.
Posted inBill Nemitz, Maine, News, Op-eds, Opinion
Bill Nemitz: Can’t imagine the next 9/11? Try harder.
Twenty years after airliners suddenly became bombs, America remains vulnerable to threats we can’t envision.
Posted inGreg Kesich, Op-eds, Opinion
The View From Here: We in the media helped inflame 9/11 hysteria
In a moment of crisis, we lowered our standards just when they were needed most.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Maine Observer: Track meet shows what’s really important
On a hot summer day, a grandmother gets to see both Maine and America at their best.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Republicans should be the party of local control
But the party of small government is all too willing to interfere on the municipal level when it’s in their interest.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Defending Acadia against industrial-scale aquaculture
The nationally significant gift of Acadia National Park will be tarnished if American Aquafarms’ salmon farms are permitted.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Comfort amid grief can come from many sources
After finding religion and intoxication unsatisfactory, a writer takes solace in one of the laws of science.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Bias against America’s Muslims must end
The illogical logic is: If you are sufficiently Muslim, you are sufficiently guilty.