Lewiston Sun Journal

For the GOP, Washington, D.C., is now Shangri-La.Never before have so many been so clamorous to bury so big a snout in so big a public trough. With the president creating bureaucracies faster than FDR, anyone who ever wrote a letter to the editor for a GOP candidate can probably count on a job.Thus, a […]

There will be lots to digest about the 2002 election – from Democratic incoherence to President Bush’s savvy to the odds of early war in Iraq – but the most consequential domestic question ahead can already be identified: Is there any limit to the tax cuts Republicans will support? How the GOP answers this question […]

The question has loomed for decades: what to do about the sorry state of public schools.It’s a beast of a question.And when the feds get involved, the “solution” can be monstrous.An 1,100-page law called the No Child Left Behind Act was signed by President George W. Bush in January. In a nutshell, it calls for […]

“If we don’t … reaffirm our commitment to fiscal responsibility, years of hard work could be squandered,” Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently told Congress. Considering the ever-climbing spending levels on Capitol Hill these days, his warning makes perfect sense.It didn’t used to be this way. In the mid-1990s, politicians began cutting wasteful government spending […]

So it’s parents’ night at school and I’m there on behalf of my youngest son. I look at him sometimes and see a toddler with a gap in his grin and a penchant for gnawing his toes.But that’s just a memory lie. The toddler is a teen-ager 2 inches taller than I am, a youngster […]

Howard Phillips, the Constitution Party presidential candidate, once averred a compelling metaphor for American politics. It involves a locomotive heading for a cliff.With the Democrats, he says, you’re chugging for the cliff at 80 mph. With the Republicans, you’re chugging along at 50. Either way, you’re going off the cliff.That is why conservatives such as […]

No one who travels to Lewiston’s Central Maine Civic Center will marvel at the parking surface. It’s dirt and it takes a pounding from rain, frost and occasional yahoos who zoom around in cars and scar the surface.Owner Roger Theriault has battled the elements and vandals for years, and the rough surface is generally fine […]