There’s a sick, cultural thing going on in places like Texas that equate ownership of assault-type weapons with manliness. In truth, give a killing machine to a 90-year-old woman in a wheelchair, and she could mow down a line of weightlifters.
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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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Sen. Bill Cassidy still doesn’t know what hit him
“About a third of our population is African American,” he said. “African Americans have a higher incidence of maternal mortality. So, if you correct our population for race, we’re not as much of an outlier as it’d otherwise appear. Now, I say that not to minimize the issue but to focus the issue as to where it would be.”
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Clem Bechard: It’s time to push back against Washington politicians
I wonder how long it will be before everyone wakes up and starts pushing back on the politicians in Washington. They care more for a war in Ukraine than their own people here in the U.S. I don’t care what side people are on, we have to start pushing back and fight for our welfare. […]
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Cal Thomas: Theology, politics and abortion
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who invokes her faith when it comes to “climate change,” recently claimed Catholic opinion about abortion goes back only a few hundred years and theologians have been divided over many centuries. This brought a rebuke from several Catholic prelates, who said the Catholic Catechism has remained consistent on human life since the first century.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
In rebuttal: Mark Wood: Life at conception is fact, not fiction
Elliott Epstein’s Rearview Mirror column (“Declining birth rates are unhealthy for hospitals and society,” May 22), was statistically instructive about this country’s declining birth rate, and the need to improve our immigration laws so jobs can be filled and our economy expanded. However, I found it troubling that Mr. Epstein used the common pro-choice misapprehension […]
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Jan Phillips: Sheats offers ‘gold standard’ to state Senate
How fortunate Auburn is to have Bettyann Sheats running for the District 20 state Senate seat. Uniquely experienced in serving this community, Maine, and her country, Bettyann both listens and rolls up her sleeves to get things done. She would be ready on Day One to effectively fight for Auburn in Augusta. But Bettyann Sheats […]
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Autumn Chapman: FDA shouldn’t withhold info on baby formula shortage
I write regarding the recent baby formula shortage and the article posted May 19 on the Food and Drug Administration’s response and rumors of the factories reopening. With supply and demand and recent shortages due to many factors, common products have been low in stock or not even restocked at all. With the case of […]
