At the end of February 2020, our clinical director left Oasis for new opportunities. Two weeks after her departure, the global pandemic arrived, and everything changed. The first few days of the pandemic were filled with confusion and uncertainty. Without a clinician on staff and no personal protective equipment in the clinic, we asked ourselves, […]

With the world full of angst and disruption — with so many people filled with anger and hate — I can’t think of a better time to embrace the Irish spirit. So let me share some of Ireland’s most enjoyable blessings, proverbs and quotes, as gathered by IrishCentral. This blessing is a good place to […]

There’s no disagreement that CMP’s customer service and reliability are deplorable. CMP has created such enmity among its customers that some are even willing to believe the specious claims of those promoting a “consumer owned utility.” Few people realize CMP is a self-inflicted wound. Maine’s PUC and its legislature are the creators of this monster. […]

After the Iranian oil crisis of 1979 began sending gasoline prices soaring, President Jimmy Carter went before the nation from the Oval Office, wearing a sweater, and advised the citizenry to turn down thermostats to save fuel, and money. After the earlier OPEC oil embargo that tripled gas prices, President Richard Nixon signed a 55 […]

When The Rule Of Lies replaces The Rule Of Law Today in Russia, we see what happens when a country is governed by The Rule Of Lies instead of The Rule Of Law. Most Russians don’t know that their dictator, Putin, has invaded Ukraine. They think it is a limited military operation that is rooting […]

We live in contentious times. According to a 2020 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, political polarization among Americans has grown rapidly during the last 40 years. “There’s evidence that within the U.S., the two major political parties have become more homogeneous in certain ways, including ideologically and socially,” said Jesse Shapiro, a […]

Destiny calls upon Russia once more to face the West – or so Russians might believe. America is not alone in projecting itself as an exceptional power and indispensable force for good in the world. Russia makes the same claim. That sentiment is built upon centuries of defeating invaders, as I explore in “Russia: The […]

Nearly 48 years ago, President Gerald Ford granted a “full, free and absolute pardon to Richard Nixon,” shielding the former president from prosecution for conspiring to cover up the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex in 1972. According to the document signed by Ford, the pardon covered “all offenses […]

Rep. Scott Perry (R., Pa.), who once advised President Donald Trump’s White House on undermining the 2020 election results, and who was a target of the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, has now found a democracy worth defending. It’s in Kyiv. Taking to Twitter on Sunday, Perry denounced […]