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PublishedDecember 14, 2011
GEORGE SMITH: Send a little love to owners of land you use during the year
There’s someone you probably are forgetting this Christmas: the person who owns the land where you picked fiddleheads or mushrooms, hiked, birdwatched, snowshoed or rode your snowmobile or ATV, hunted or accessed the water in 2011.
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PublishedDecember 13, 2011
MIKE TIPPING: Health care cuts, tax cuts demonstrate skewed priorities
This week, the Maine Legislature will consider a devastating package of cuts proposed by Gov. Paul LePage that would cut off health care to hundreds of thousands of Mainers in order to close what he says is a $221 million deficit in the current budget
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PublishedDecember 12, 2011
MAINE COMPASS: Good winter goal is reduce number, severity of falls taken by seniors
As winter tightens its grip, and our sidewalks and streets turn icy, it is worth remembering how falls pose a threat to seniors.
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PublishedDecember 11, 2011
COMMENTARY: Rowling doesn’t leave enough to fans’ imaginations
For someone so famous for inspiring the imaginations of her readers, J.K. Rowling now seems determined to cut them off at the pass.
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PublishedDecember 11, 2011
JOHN FRARY: Issue about issues has spilled over from 2008 campaign to this
Not long ago I had a column in which I made light of the "issues" issue, arguing, in effect, that, in American politics, issues are determined by the candidates' pollsters, not their issues advisers.
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PublishedDecember 11, 2011
DANA MILBANK: Romney paints Gingrich with his own Newtonian Nastiness brush
The campaign of Mitt Romney, the Rip van Winkle of presidential politics, finally awakened last week with a savage counterattack against Newt Gingrich, the man who against all odds is threatening to wrest the Republican nomination from the former Massachusetts governor.
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PublishedDecember 11, 2011
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Obama’s campaign for class resentment
In the first month of his presidency, Barack Obama averred that if in three years he hadn't alleviated the nation's economic pain, he'd be a "one-term proposition."
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PublishedDecember 10, 2011
COMMENTARY: Rape victim’s ordeal not just Afghans’ shame
The story of Gulnaz, a young Afghan woman who was raped and then jailed for having sex out of wedlock, has once again drawn international attention to Afghanistan's legal system and its institutionalized discrimination against women.
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PublishedDecember 10, 2011
M.D. HARMON: Christian leaders worried about threat to religious freedoms
The United States has always placed freedom of religion among its highest values and most-protected rights, so it seems odd that its largest Christian church felt the need to establish a committee specifically to protect the religious freedoms of believers of all denominations.
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PublishedDecember 9, 2011
DENIS THOET: Lifelong career may be overrated, ’cause job-jumping was lots of fun
The post World War II generation, of which I am a member, has used up much of the world's oil, turned our air into carbon dioxide -- and taken all the jobs. So there are pitifully few left for the next generation.
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