Amid the immigration wars and the trials and the general sense of exhaustion around Washington, it’s refreshing to find a good-old press conference inveighing against “pork,” the time-honored jibe at spending in somebody else’s Congressional district. A handful of Republican House members last week spotlighted a report by Citizens Against Government Waste taking aim at […]

Yesterday I called the police, but not for the reason you think. As has often been said of me — no doubt by my enemies —I  tend to throw myself into things I’m not qualified for. I can’t help it. When I read a great book or watch a good movie, particularly where the protagonist […]

“Don’t you dare call me without texting first!” blared a recent headline in the Wall Street Journal. Yes, forget about Taiwan and other potential hot spots; battle lines are being drawn over the divisive issue of modern telephone etiquette. (“Plenty of ink for the battle lines, since we didn’t use any codifying the unwritten rules […]

If any of you readers are under 60, you may as well turn to another fabulous article in this remarkable publication because, you see, I’m not sure you’ll recognize many of the names I’ll be naming. Some you’ll get but not all. You see I’ve decided to share a few of the glory moments of […]

In 1904, the United States was booming under President Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.’s dynamic leadership. Roosevelt took over as president after a Polish anarchist assassinated President William McKinley in Buffalo. The populace loved Roosevelt, who had been the Rough Riders’ leader, an author, an outdoorsman, a rancher and the New York governor. No city was thriving […]

Hunter Biden, the president’s son, was found guilty of illegally buying a gun while using narcotics. While he stood trial, you may have noticed the quietude outside the federal courthouse and on the information highway. No demagogic puppets from Capitol Hill showed up to attack the rule of law or slime the judge and jury. […]

Here’s what Sen. Marco Rubio said about Donald Trump during the heated phase off the 2016 presidential campaign: “I would prefer not to get into a fight with other Republicans. But I would much more prefer not to turn over the party to a con artist like Trump.” Marco spoke with wisdom back then, but […]

Primary elections, created by referendum in 1911 – the first initiated question placed on the ballot – once riveted Mainers. During long decades of Republican dominance, winning the primary was tantamount to winning the election, and as many as 10 candidates filed for open Congressional seats, back when Maine still had four, then three House […]