“A proficiency at billiards is a sign of a misspent youth” is an old saw often incorrectly attributed to both Mark Twain and English philosopher Herbert Spencer. Spencer did say it, but he maintained that he was simply repeating a comment he heard at the Athenaeum Club in London by Charles Roupell, a referee of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Julie McDonald’s column criticizing Democrats in the state Senate District 25 ballot controversy makes it clear that she is a staunch Republican. The final tally giving the win to the Democrat was for her obviously very disappointing. She blamed the Democrats for the publicity involved, despite the fact that the media jump and thrive on […]

Orlando Delogu’s recent column, “Maine Dems share blame for a long, cold winter,” succinctly posits the argument of many: Why do large numbers of people vote against their own self-interest? This has been a perennial question amongst pundits for decades and today it remains unanswerable. Is it from lack of education? From disinterest in politics? […]