All posts tagged "Opinion"
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Four reasons you can ignore that PPP poll
A Democratic polling firm’s survey of the 2014 gubernatorial race is garnering a...
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Frary: How to spot a lying sob and other matters of national importance
The Honorable William S. Cohen and Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) had a conversation...
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TMW Editorial: On human trafficking, Cain's leadership missing
Six Democrats on the Legislative Council voted on Oct. 30 to block a...
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Lockman: Preserve the safety net for the truly needy
“Health care is a right, not a privilege.” How often have people heard...
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Cautionary tale about solar energy
The California company SolarCity estimates that it will install 1 million new rooftop...
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M.D. Harmon: What does a conservative writer read?
What does a conservative writer read? While the half-dozen names (plus one) on...
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M.D. Harmon: National Park Service antics diminish president
“This is most closed, control-freak administration I’ve ever covered.” — David E. Sanger,...
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M.D. Harmon: U.N. Gun Control Treaty Threatens Bill of Rights
Does it make a difference if the United States “adopts” an international treaty...
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M.D. Harmon: Conservatives must fight fire with fire
One of the things that continues to irk me is how conservatives in...
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M.D. Harmon: President's Syria Intervention Unwise
Vice President Joe Biden said in 2007 that President George W. Bush should...
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SHOCKING REMARK AT GUBERNATORIAL FUND-RAISER
Two Democrats say Mike Michaud made an intelligent remark during a fund-raiser. This...
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M.D. Harmon: LoFo voters, biased media bolster Obamacare apologists
One of the current political buzzwords is “LoFo voter,” a short way to...
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Frary: Obamacare in Maine
“RE: Changes to the 2014 Verso Health Benefits Program,” a memo sent to...
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M.D. Harmon: Anti-gun liberals prefer emotion over fact
Anti-gun groups in the culture at large, along with significant voices in the...
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Frary: This Town and Olympia Snowe
A new best seller, This Town, by Mark Leibovich presents some interesting points of...
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M.D. Harmon: The Tax Man Cometh
“The bottom line is we’re not broke, there’s plenty of money, it’s just...
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Frary: Connecting some dots…
Danny Kanner, Lis Smith, Mark Giangreco, and Governor Peter Shumlin, my new best...
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Trahan: Humane Society of the United States and local animal shelters are not the same thing
Soon the Humane Society of the United States, (HSUS) will initiate their anti-bear...
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M.D. Harmon: The post-Obama economic recovery
“I think every president in the intense media environment we have now, certainly...
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M.D. Harmon: Who to blame for the death of Detroit?
“Detroit is the rotten fruit of uncontested progressive socialism.” — Editorial, Investor’s Business...
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Fredette: Building a better Maine will require change of direction, attitude
We have just concluded the first legislative session in Augusta since Democrats retook...
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M.D. Harmon: The Lawless Presidency
As many Americans contemplate the depressing fact that we are only six months...
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M.D. Harmon: In Zimmerman trial, DOJ and media fan flames of controversy
How did the second-degree murder trial of so-called “white Hispanic” George Zimmerman for...
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Frary: Stop the LePage Agenda?
The Democratic Governor’s Association (DGA) has posted petitions to “Stop the LePage Agenda”...
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M.D. Harmon: LePage's 2014 bid gives hope to Maine fiscal conservatives
Being a conservative in Maine, at least in my experience, has involved enduring...
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M.D. Harmon: Unintended consequences of Obama's new CAFE standards could be deadly
Can the Obama administration rewrite the laws of physics? Of course it can’t,...
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M.D. Harmon: Obama's Syria intervention is poor policy
“I am not opposed to all wars. I am opposed to dumb wars.”...
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Op-Ed: Portland City Council’s Proposed Nanny-State Regulations Ignore Science and Economics
By Paul Blair — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has friends in Portland, Maine....
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Op-Ed: A (former) Quebecer in Yankee country
By Pierre Lemieux – The history of New England and Québec have been...
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M.D. Harmon: Liberty or Security?
“I’m a U.K. citizen hoping soon to become a U.S. citizen, a lifelong...
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Schaeffer's Immutable Laws
By Pem Schaeffer — Dr. Thomas Sowell, the prolific scholar and author at the...
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Lockman: Maine's public schools in for reality check
By Rep. Lawrence E. Lockman (R-Amherst) For compelling evidence that Maine’s public schools...
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M.D. Harmon: Texas Gov Rick Perry revives competitive federalism
The Politico website has noted that there is a Republican governor giving Democrats...
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Letter: Education stakeholders put kids last
By Julie Norsworthy On Friday May 17th my sons and I entered the Cross...
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M.D. Harmon: America Decline
“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military...
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M.D. Harmon: LePage's education reforms a win for Maine students
All the flapping, squawking and screeching that greeted the LePage administration’s “letter-grade” ranks...
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Frary: Looking to the 2014 gubernatorial election
“Stop Paul LePage’s Agenda! Governor Paul LePage’s extreme policies have hurt Mainers. During...
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M.D. Harmon: The Denier-in-Chief
“That the power to tax involves the power to destroy (is) not to...
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Op-Ed: Life, Liberty and the Gang of Eleven
Here, I’d like to discuss the so-called Gang of Eleven’s LD 1496, designated...
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M.D. Harmon: Gang of Ocho Immigration Bill to Cost Taxpayers $6.3 Trillion
When a proposed law is drafted for consideration by the Maine Legislature, it...
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M.D. Harmon: The $4.4 Billion Pigford Boondoggle is Criminal Conspiracy
Somehow, it’s appropriate that a multibillion-dollar slam-bang government porkfest in which tens of...
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New Internet Sales Tax Threatens New Hampshire
This column originally appeared in the April 24, 2013 edition of the New...
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The New Climate Science Deniers: Liberals
“Despite these relentless setbacks for the climate campaign, environmentalists are not going gentle...
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Bucklin: Restore Maine's Competitiveness by Ending Forced Unionism
The Way Life Should Be. Our motto rings true as Maine consistently ranks...
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Humor: "Truth in Packaging;" what bill titles should say…
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have...
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LESSONS FOR TODAY FROM THE IMMORTALS, BUCKLEY AND REAGAN
LESSONS FOR TODAY FROM THE IMMORTALS, BUCKLEY AND REAGAN Remarks by Neal B....
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M.D. Harmon: Gun control, from Washington, DC to Augusta
This was “gun week” in Augusta, with lawmakers lined up to conduct hearings...
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Earth Day Exposes the Ironies of the Left’s Trendy Environmentalism
On April 22, in cities across America, some environmental activists will celebrate Earth...
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Sirocki: Controversial Activist Group Gets It Wrong on Taxes
By Rep. Heather Sirocki – Here in Maine, we value our privacy and our...
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Citizens United: Leftist groups push amendment to liberate us from our liberties
In response to the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal...
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M.D. Harmon: Former Reaganite Offers Dire Economic Warning
If America’s fiscal state is as bad as David Stockman thinks it is,...
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M.D. Harmon: Conservative Schisms May Spawn Democratic Hegemony
Is the U.S. conservative movement (or, more precisely, the Republican Party, which is...
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M.D. Harmon: Right To Home-educate Assailed From U.S. To Germany
Maine is an easy state in which to exercise your right as a...
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M.D. Harmon: New Generation of GOP All-Stars Show Worthy Alternatives to Romney and Obama
Before the 2012 presidential campaign got going in earnest, there was a boomlet...
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Letter to the Editor: Preservationists ignore human toll
By Sandy George, Montville The inspiration for offering this opinion was a personal...
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Op-Ed: A Six-pack, your credit card, and the car keys, please…
I’m getting real tired of being lectured about morality by the Speaker of...
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Op-Ed: An Opportunity For Fiscal Responsibility
By Rep. Kathleen Chase (R-Wells) If most of us won a small lottery and...
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Heritage Foundation: Welfare Reform is Back
By Rachel Sheffield Heritage Foundation Last summer, the Obama Administration gutted the successful 1996...
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M.D. Harmon: Surprise! Sequestration happened and world did not end
News reports told us of an odd and tragic circumstance recently when a...
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Trahan: Journalists should focus on the bad guys
Some within the media have wrapped themselves in the flag of the freedom...
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UN Agenda 21: Land Conservation is Trojan Horse for Big Government
By Diana George Chapin On Feb. 23 the Bangor Daily News and Lewiston Sun...
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M.D. Harmon: Department of Peacebuilding?
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, c. 400...
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M.D. Harmon: New Local Taxes Are Not The Solution, Fiscal Restraint Is
Tuesday’s paper had some interesting headlines on the front page. To start with,...
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Buckley Rule – According to Bill, not Karl
By Neal B. Freeman The Buckley Rule has been much invoked in recent...
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M.D. Harmon: Cops' Conduct Proves Virtue of 2nd Amendment Rights
When President Obama traveled to Minnesota Feb. 4 to make a plea for...
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M.D. Harmon: Time to fight the ideological battle over Obama's ideas
President Obama has made his leftist goals explicit in a pair of major...
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M.D. Harmon: For progress on immigration, first secure the border
There’s one thing about our immigration policy that is an absolute necessity for...
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Everyone has a champion in the school bureaucracy — except the children
“When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the...
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M.D. Harmon: What liberals won't tell you about "tar sands:" It's not dirty. It's just oil.
It shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to anyone to be told that...
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M.D. Harmon: Scary times, Obama's debt and America's "horrific bender"
Conan O’Brien said last week that the mayor of Washington, D.C., had asked...
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The Frary Files: Tax code inflicts unconscionable burden on taxpayers
By Prof. John Frary On January 9 of this year the National Taxpayer...
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M.D. Harmon: Oil barons, leftists bury good news about hydrofracking
Some ironies are just too delicious to ignore, and one of them is...
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M.D. Harmon: The war on coal, media traps, firearm sales and circus animals
When the going gets tough, the tough take their fun where they can...
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M.D. Harmon: The charge for gun control is not about controlling guns
“If you don’t want to have a gun in your home or in...
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The Frary Files: Rational gun control debate requires a more detached examination
By Prof. John Frary “It’s time to talk about gun control.” This was...
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M.D. Harmon: Christmas not only celebrates goodness, it defies evil
Numerous commentators, with Fox’s Bill O’Reilly chief among them, are busy this time...
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The Frary Files: Union Busters are Busting Out All Over
By Prof. John Frary Maine Wire columnist Most people know about the vanguard...
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M.D. Harmon: "Tax cuts for the rich" is a flip-flop lie from the left
We’re all familiar with the way many high school and college football teams...
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M.D. Harmon: Conservative leaders must promise courage, principles and no new taxes
It seems fair to say that, as recently as a month ago, you...
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M.D. Harmon: Taker-to-Maker ratio ranks Maine as a fiscal "Death Spiral State"
Here’s a headline seen on forbes.com on Nov. 25: “Do You Live in a Death...
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M.D. Harmon: Thankful for the ideals of our American Age
There’s a story told about the ancient, fabled Eastern European Jewish city of...
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M.D. Harmon: Unanimous votes, a fiscal cliff, Hurricane Sandy and the other woman
A new study says there are five specific warning signs for developing Alzheimer’s...
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M.D. Harmon: Preparing to hold off the statist juggernaut
Well, at least Big Bird is safe. OK, that wasn’t all that funny....
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Op/Ed: Land for Maine’s Future furthers the erosion of individual property rights
By Diana George Chapin In her March 14, 2009 Wall Street Journal column,...
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M.D. Harmon: Sequestration and the art of hostage-taking
When Halloween is over, the masks come off, at least for trick-or-treaters. Thus,...
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LePage: Candidates must debate the issues with civility and integrity
Weekly Address by Governor Paul LePage Those who know me know I enjoy...
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The Frary Files: Angus King, the Artful Dodger
By Prof. John Frary Maine Wire columnist On October 22 at a forum...
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M.D. Harmon: Eulogies ignore George McGovern's epiphany of capitalism
Reading the encomiums to the late Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota in...
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The Frary Files: Michaud masters obscurity and makes campaign whoppers
By Prof. John Frary Maine Wire columnist Unlike Chellie Pingree and Angus King,...
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M.D. Harmon: Conservatives are everywhere, hiding in plain sight
I was a bit surprised a few days ago to see that the...
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Maine’s colorful political chameleon champions Angus King in PPH columns
By Pem Schaeffer Maine Wire columnist On Sunday, October 7, The Maine Wire...
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M.D. Harmon: EPA atrocities—ethanol and boutique gasoline—inflame gas prices
It was recently suggested that Mitt Romney go to California to hold another...
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Maine’s colorful political chameleons: Angus King and Alan Caron
By Pem Schaeffer Maine Wire columnist A few weeks back, I wrote on...
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Op/Ed: Angus King raised taxes, increased spending as governor
By David Sorenson Over the years, Angus King and his friends have built...
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M.D. Harmon: Media bias is "very real and very dangerous"
Sometimes, you hear a grand and glorious rant delivered by someone who’s had...
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Op/Ed:125th Legislature restored integrity to Maine state government
“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – John Dalberg, Lord Acton By Harold...
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LETTER to the EDITOR: Maine's 2nd District represented in the “Obscure Caucus”
To the Editor: This November voters in Maine’s Second Congressional District will choose...
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M.D. Harmon: Progressive view of the world bleeds through the media
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you...
