New England Patriots fans, who count among their numbers many Mainers, are understandably down this weekend because their beloved football team is not in the Super Bowl. We share in the anxiety but there is consolation in knowing 30 other NFL teams did not make the marquee game either. If that’s not enough, we all […]

Let us be the first in 2014 to write the obituary for the global warming argument. It’s dead. At least it is for now. The frigid temperature readings we’ve experienced lately are all the proof some people need to show the entire global warming debate is a man-made concoction filled with holes. This is clearly […]

n the popular original television series and later the big screen hits, Captain Kirk from Star Trek had a knack for being able to swing around a moon or two, go back in time, and alter the consequences of a previous action. He did it in “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,” where he and […]

It’s not nice to come across as a gaggle of Grinches this time of year but a troubling trend hatched in 2013. It has to do with people’s attitudes toward others. We’ll cut to the chase, and we’ll try to be nice about it. Too many Americans dislike poor people. There you have it. No […]