Pem Schaeffer

Pem Schaeffer is a retired engineer who progressed to a position in business development leadership in defense electronics. He lives and writes in Brunswick, Maine, and blogs at: http://othersideofbrunswick.blogspot.com/ He can be reached at pemster4062@yahoo.com or you can always buy him lunch at an MHPC luncheon. He's easy that way, and he'll still respect you if you do.

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It’s time for Maine’s private colleges to step up

Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, is surely among the wealthiest institutions in Maine. Its...
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Free college, Medicare for All and other insanities of the extreme left

Clichéd as it may be, conservatives live in “a target rich environment” for...
Daily Catch

The Full Alexandria

Maybe you’ve seen The Full Monty, or at least heard of it. It’s...
Citizens' Initiative

Ask your doctor if Referendax is right for you

Matt Gagnon did a superb job of “fisking” Edgar Allen Beem‘s recent Forecaster...
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Rail authority demonstrates two degrees of fraud, waste and abuse

This article first appeared in the Portland Press Herald. “Nobody spends somebody else’s...
In Depth

Alexa, what are you doing in my room?

How much would you pay someone to invade the privacy of your home? ...
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A quick and brief tour of leftist crazy-land

Herewith a few quick examples of the cognitive cacophony of those on the...
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Is there a cure for spinal frailty in Republicans?

Pundits and commoners often repeat Michael Savage’s thesis that “liberalism is a mental...
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Progressives facing existential PR damage from Charlottesville

Moral superiority is the lily-white garb donned by progressive true believers to shore...
Education

Teacher Pay? It’s Time to Reform the Underlying Structure and Driving Factors

I agree with Governor LePage. Teachers should be paid what they are worth....
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Tea and Crumpets in the Senate Cloakroom, Anyone?

“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the...
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A Nation of Laws? Nay, We Are a Nation of Kingdoms and Kings

Recently I attended the MHPC luncheon at which Tom Fitton, Head of Judicial...
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How to Bring Accountability to Public Schools

“When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the...
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Part III: Federal Employee Compensation Reform

In 1959 I began my pursuit of a BS degree in Electrical Engineering....
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Part II: Suggesting the Obvious – Starting at the Beginning, and the Top

Sometimes, seemingly intractable problems need to be addressed with ‘brute force.’ That is,...
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Deficits, Debts, and Drug Addiction

A three part series on chronic abuse of other peoples’ money Part I: The...
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Schaeffer: Updating the Filibuster Conundrum

More than three years ago, The Maine Wire ran a brief item of...
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Something’s Gotta Give: O’Sullivan’s First Law and Political Gravitational Pull

I’ve often generalized about Republican’s and Democrats by saying that the former almost...
2014 Gubernatorial Campaign

Unto Everything There Is A Season

Who was it that said election time is ‘silly season?’ For years I’ve...

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