Biden would surely be great if unleashed at Fourth of July picnics. What does that get him, though? He’s not running for the Wilmington, Delaware, city council. He’s trying to right the listing ship of state of a great continental nation.
Alex Lear
Staff Writer
Alex Lear is a lifelong Mainer who has spent 25 years in journalism -- the first 20 as a reporter for newspapers in Damariscotta and Falmouth, then as Opinions section editor for the Sun Journal and now a digital producer with the Maine Trust for Local News. His long-running “Learics” column won first place in the Maine Press Association’s 2023 Better Newspaper Contest. He and his wife Lauren are kept young by their 9-year-old daughter Alaina. Send feedback and suggestions to Alex.
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Cal Thomas: Prime time for anti-Trumpers
The House Jan. 6 congressional committee is attempting to divert the attention of what concerns most Americans to what some have called the “near destruction of our democracy.”
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Froma Harrop: California Democrats had to educate the media
If the activist left succeeded in portraying itself as the heart and soul of the Democratic Party, the fault lies in much of the political media. Rather than sending Democrats a message, California has sent the media a message on where Democrats really stand on crime.
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Austin Bay: Political corruption and injustice threaten U.S. national security
The United States must get serious about its own survival as a republic dedicated to protecting individual life and liberty.
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Froma Harrop: The left fringe almost always loses
It’s not just Republican voters who are defending a few honest members of their party against right-wing assault. Democrats have pushed back left-wing jihads against their moderates. Note the failure to knock off a conservative Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar, in a recent primary.
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Carole Richards: Biden administration gets too much blame for calamities
Members of the GOP are running around with their hair on fire, blaming the high price of gas and oil, the war in Ukraine, the wild fires and the drought on the present administration. Really? The gas and oil companies are padding the pockets of their puppet politicians instead of putting their billion-dollar profits back […]
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Bette Thibeault: Rotundo offers ‘quiet, yet forceful presence’ to Senate
Peggy Rotundo is a woman of integrity, wisdom and thoughtful consideration when speaking on issues that affect all people she represents. I am so pleased she is running for a Senate seat again. She fulfilled, with grace and dignity, the position she held in the Maine Senate. It is my hope she will be representing […]
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Poland Select Board: Vote yes on RSU 16’s Question 2
Every citizen should have the right to vote for the RSU 16 Budget at the polls. Every three years they see the following: Question 2. Do you wish to continue the budget validation referendum process in Regional School Unit Sixteen (16) for an additional three years? This year the RSU 16 board has advocated to […]
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Rich Lowry: The United States has an epidemic of gang shootings
It is difficult to tell exactly how many gun homicides in the country are gang-related (among other things, witnesses are reluctant to talk). But the Department of Justice’s National Gang Center, in what is almost certainly an undercount, reports that there were roughly 2,000 gang homicides annually from 2007-2012, accounting for about 13% of all homicides. In Chicago and Los Angeles, around half of all homicides were gang related.