Who would have imagined that a South African native, Elon Musk, would hold the power to trash a bi-partisan Congressional budget plan a week before the nation was facing another governmental shutdown? Who would have ever imagined that the job security of 2.5 million federal workers would rest in the hands of the richest Republican […]

What a wonderful surprise in Dec. 27’s Sun Journal (“Muhammad Ali statue under construction in Lewiston“). Developer Tom Platz and his friends have commissioned Zenos Frudakis, one of the world’s foremost sculpture artists, to create a bronze statue of Muhammad Ali’s great triumph over Sonny Liston in Lewiston in 1965. It will be based on […]

President Biden’s broken promise on not pardoning his son Hunter comes as no surprise to me. He lied to the American people for so long about the economy, open borders and blaming former President Trump for leaving him with a mess when he took office. So, just a few weeks before Hunter’s trial he pardons […]

It seems really obvious that our “fearless leader,” President-elect Donald Trump, thinks lowering people’s grocery bills is no priority. Revenge and chaos are his strongest motivations — that, or whatever his pal Elon Musk thinks is best. I hope Vladimir Putin and Kim Jung Un aren’t jealous. There’s only so much of Don to go […]

During the presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump filed a spate of lawsuits against news organizations — ABC News and host George Stephanopoulos among them — advancing the false narrative that his perceived enemies unfairly target him, wrote Politico’s Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing. Now the New York Times reports that Debra OConnell, the Disney executive who directly […]

Any sensible person with a smidgen of knowledge about Adolf Hitler’s and Joseph Stalin’s careers as genocidal autocrats knows better than to view President-elect Donald Trump as their counterpart in that respect. So, I disagree with letter writer Mark Wood’s objection (Dec. 19) to Dave Granlund’s cartoon, in which Trump is depicted as Time magazine’s […]

Political satire has its place … and its limits. So Dave Granlund’s recent cartoon about the history of Time magazine’s “Person of Year” recipients radically exceeded those limits, in that it surrounded President-elect Donald Trump, this year’s recipient, with some of history’s most notorious mass murderers and dictators. There were plenty of other recipients Granlund […]

Are people tired of speeding and reckless driving in their town? One reason these issues persist is the increasing restrictions placed on police officers when it comes to pulling over drivers. Frivolous lawsuits, accusations of profiling, and claims of harassment have created barriers that discourage officers from enforcing traffic laws. Our attorney general should stand […]

Laurel Libby was on Dec. 14’s front page (“Maine sued over new voter-approved campaign finance limits“) for supporting a move to overturn a law backed by a strong majority of Maine’s voters (some 600,000) to outlaw contributions of more than $5,000 to political causes. Clearly, this shows a valuation of money’s terrible dominance in politics. […]

Anyone wondering why this country is more divided than even the misbegotten America First days before World War II should read Rich Hatch’s letter (“Blame lack of role models and no societal standards,” Nov. 30). He says liberals are “hypocrites for belittling anyone who doesn’t believe what they tell them to believe.” Meanwhile, Donald Trump […]