In August 2016, during the week celebrating the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary, former President Barack Obama designated the Katahdin…
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Yesterday, a U.S. district judge appointed by President Obama blocked the Department of Labor’s overtime pay rule that would have…
Today, LifeZette brought to light the story of a massive welfare and tax fraud case from Portland, Maine, highlighting a…
The confirmed reports of the Obama Administration’s covert payment of cash ransoms in exchange for American hostages are an abomination.…
Today, Governor Paul LePage joined a number of other states in filing a federal court complaint challenging the United States…
If you have been living under a rock, or you haven’t been following Maine politics for the past week or…
Wednesday, House Republican Leaders expressed their outrage over President Obama’s decision to create a national monument in Maine’s North Woods.…
“This massacre is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a…
“Without question, these new regulations will hurt Maine workers more than help.” In 2014, President Obama issued an executive order…
In April of 2014, reports and rumors of the mistreatment of veterans through the VA hospitals surfaced when CNN first…
The Hillary Clinton email scandal has dominated the news cycle for months. Aside from Donald Trump, the scandal is probably…
This week, Maine’s State Legislature passed LD 1600, a bill that would require State approval before any sitting President can…
Beginning today, almost 800 hospitals across the country will be impacted by the Obama Administration’s change to how Medicare pays…
This month, the House has acted to challenge the President on his unlawful executive order to grant amnesty to millions…
The Ivanpah solar plant in the Mojave Desert is yet another example of what happens when the federal government interferes…
I’m not generally excited about parks. I like nature, there is no mistaking that- you’re talking to a girl who…
While President Obama endlessly carries on in Paris about the global threat of climate change, Americans sit at home wondering…
In a radio address on Monday, Governor LePage criticized the Obama administration’s decision to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees into the…
Last week, the Obama Administration announced a proposal that would make nearly 5 million more workers eligible for overtime benefits, but…
On Thursday, Congress passed a resolution aimed at limiting so-called “ambush elections” for union representation, but the legislation is expected…
On Friday, the Obama Administration admitted that approximately 800,000 Healthcare.gov customers have received incorrect tax forms. The administration is asking…
Liberals in Maine and Washington, D.C. are suffering a new psychological condition, one that started very recently, in November. Symptoms…
ORONO – First Lady Michelle Obama touted the health of the U.S. economy as she visited Maine on Friday to campaign…
In a surprising move, Eric Holder Jr. will step down as Attorney General, the White House announced Thursday. From NPR: Two…
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s former chief of staff, has abandoned plans to name a new high school after…
Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins blasted President Barack Obama’s administration on Wednesday for stymieing public watchdogs throughout the federal government. “It…
Emails from the federal bureaucrat at the heart of the IRS corruption scandal do exist, according to government lawyers and the…
Debt held by the American government has surged under President Barack Obama. CNSNews.com reports: “The total federal debt of the U.S.…
AUGUSTA – U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud, the Ranking Democrat on Congress’ Veterans Affairs Committee, on Thursday refused to accept any…
Unilateral Climate Policy: President Obama is prepared to unveil a new regulation on June 2 that will, according to reports,…
The Maine Wire got a look at the cross-tabs behind the latest Rasmussen poll. To the extent polls tell us…
The hidden cost of federal regulation is taking its toll on Americans’ wallets, and the Obama administration has done more…
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and Fox News host Bill O’Reilly traded barbs Sunday during a pitched pre-Super Bowl interview.…
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and Fox News host Bill O’Reilly traded barbs Sunday during a pitched pre-Super Bowl interview.…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Barack Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union Address Tuesday night. Here are some of…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Barack Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union Address Tuesday night. Here are some of…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its bipartisan report on the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist…
PORTLAND – A recently elected Portland City Councilor said Friday that if John F. Kennedy were alive today the former…
The U.S. Census Bureau may have produced fraudulent job statistics in order to bolster President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election odds,…
“This is most closed, control-freak administration I’ve ever covered.” — David E. Sanger, New York Times staff reporter, who has…
BELFAST – As U.S. military intervention in the Syrian civil war seems imminent, Republican candidate for Maine’s second district congressional…
“I think every president in the intense media environment we have now, certainly every two-term president, gets to a point…
Courtesy of Breitbart News’ Matthew Boyle: Popular opposition to the “Lifeline” program, colloquially known since last year as the “Obamaphone”…
How did the second-degree murder trial of so-called “white Hispanic” George Zimmerman for the killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin…
Can the Obama administration rewrite the laws of physics? Of course it can’t, but it can pass laws and regulations…
“I am not opposed to all wars. I am opposed to dumb wars.” — Barack Obama, in The New Yorker,…
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) may be the most powerful, and feared, federal agency in Washington. It is absolutely essential…
“That the power to tax involves the power to destroy (is) not to be denied.” — Justice John Marshall, in…
“President Obama does not want an immigration bill to pass,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) during a Wednesday interview with…
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Sen. Angus S. King, Jr., an un-enrolled Democrat, said Friday in his weekly YouTube address that…
Is the U.S. conservative movement (or, more precisely, the Republican Party, which is not exactly the same thing) facing an…
During the 2012 election, much ado was made over Cleveland resident Michelle Dowery’s rant in a viral YouTube video about…
Before the 2012 presidential campaign got going in earnest, there was a boomlet in some circles for (of all people)…
Sen. Rand Paul’s 13-hour old-fashion filibuster of President Barack Obama’s CIA director nomination began Wednesday and lasted well into Thursday…
News reports told us of an odd and tragic circumstance recently when a man fell into a giant hole that…
President Obama has made his leftist goals explicit in a pair of major national addresses (his acceptance speech at the…
There’s one thing about our immigration policy that is an absolute necessity for any progress to be made on the…
Conan O’Brien said last week that the mayor of Washington, D.C., had asked the owner of the Washington Redskins football…
By Rasmussen Reports Last week began with a “fiscal cliff” deal that surprised no one and earned mixed reviews. It ended…
When the going gets tough, the tough take their fun where they can find it. So, rather than dwell on…
By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation While you were sleeping—or ringing in 2013—the Senate voted to raise taxes. After missing the…
By Rob Bluey The Heritage Foundation Christmas arrives this year at a time when our nation is on the brink…
We’re all familiar with the way many high school and college football teams enter the field at the start of…
By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation President Obama made his first offer to congressional Republicans yesterday in negotiations over the “fiscal…
By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation Taking down the Twinkie. Clogging Wal-Mart parking lots on Black Friday. Messing with a major airport…
By Bronson Stocking The Heritage Foundation A letter from 232 multi-industry organizations, in conjunction with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is calling on…
By Bill Wilson Americans for Limited Government “[T]he only thing that’s worse than cutting national defense is not having any…
By Rich Noyes Research director for the Media Research Center Fox News and other media outlets have projected that President…
This was posted on Rasmussen Reports on Saturday, Nov. 3 Too close to call: That’s where we’re at. With eight states,…
By Michael Moroney The second presidential debate started off with a question from Jeremy, a college student who wanted to know…
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By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation Last night’s debate between President Obama and Governor Romney was supposed to focus on foreign…
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By Robert Rector and Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation It’s been a pretty big year for welfare—and a new report shows welfare is…
This is from “What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls”, posted online in Rasmussen Reports. The math is pretty…
Obama.com owned by bundler in Shanghai with business ties to Chinese government A breaking story on Brietbart.com reveals that the Obama.com…
Sometimes, you hear a grand and glorious rant delivered by someone who’s had it up to his hairline with whatever…
By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation President Obama recently said, “The most important lesson I’ve learned is you can’t change Washington from…
The problem a lot of conservatives have with Mitt Romney’s campaign to date—as opposed to problems with Mitt Romney as…
By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation The controversy over the Obama Administration’s gutting of welfare reform continues to grow. Two new…
How corrupt is our federal government under Barack Obama? You can get a measure of that from the things politicians…
I guess, if I had to stand in a crowd listening to President Obama brag about what he’s done so…
In a letter from President Dan Danner, the National Federation of Independent Business accused President Obama of “ignoring small business…
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” — Inigo Montoya, “The…
As I read the news this week, I’m starting to get nostalgic for 1968: I see cops in Chicago trying…
Ron Paul may have ceased spending money on the remaining Presidential primaries, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t want the…
“I had a dream last night, About the comin’ fight. Somebody yelled ‘Attack!’ And there I stood With an arrow…