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Robert B. Charles, National Spokesman, AMAC at AMAC

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Robert B. Charles

National Spokesman, AMAC

AMAC Staff Writing since 2019 @Bobby4Maine Website

1,639

Articles published

7

Years with AMAC

10

Topics covered

Oct 20, 2026

Latest article

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1,639 articles

AMAC Yesteryear

What History's Bravest Leaders Teach Us About Facing Fear Today

Churchill, who wrote 43 books and failed at money, politics, and battle, held that courage is the one virtue on which every other virtue depends.

Sep 16, 2026

Politics

The Growing Divide Between Democrats and Democratic Socialists

A new brand of radical politics pushes one-party rule at every level of government, calling it normal when history shows the opposite, and free speech is the first casualty.

Sep 15, 2026

Faith & Public Life

The Quest: Serving Others Before Time Runs Out

A candidate for governor draws his purpose from Stephen Grellet, an 18th-century French musketeer who traded his sword for a Bible and served American prisons and hospitals.

Sep 14, 2026

Politics

Never Forgetting: Seven Friends Who Died on 9/11

Seven friends died at the Pentagon that morning, among them Angie, who trained the author and always wore a cross, and Darin, who gave up his fighter-pilot dream.

Sep 11, 2026

Health News

Ending Addiction Demands Real Leadership, Not Political Shows

In Maine, 150,000 people are addicted and overdoses top 10,000 a year, yet the state keeps just 300 treatment beds.

Sep 10, 2026

AMAC Yesteryear

Robert Frost’s Wit and Wisdom: Timeless Lessons on Life

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up," Frost warned, one of the sharp, funny lines he left in prose rather than poems.

Sep 9, 2026

AMAC Yesteryear

In the World, Not of It: Staying True to Timeless Truths

Water still boils at 212 degrees and freezes at 32 no matter what the world insists, and Kipling's poem "If" and Christ's words remind us the constants hold.

Sep 8, 2026

AMAC Yesteryear

Labor Day: The Timeless Value of Hard Work and Purpose

Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, between the recessions of 1893 and 1896, when Americans wanted work and could not find it.

Sep 7, 2026

AMAC Yesteryear

A Poem to Lift Your Spirits: Longfellow’s Arrow and Song

Longfellow's twelve-line poem follows an arrow lost in flight and a song lost on the wind, both found again years later in the heart of a friend.

Sep 4, 2026

AMAC Yesteryear

Finding Hope and Beauty in Wordsworth's Timeless "Daffodils"

William Wordsworth's 1804 poem "Daffodils" recalls ten thousand golden flowers dancing by a lake, a memory that lifts the heart long after summer fades into fall.

Sep 3, 2026

Politics

The Real Danger of Socialism to America's Constitutional Republic

The Democratic Socialist Party now backs Democrats from Maine to California, and a writer who spent time in the Soviet Union, Poland, and Laos says he watched every right vanish there.

Sep 2, 2026

Politics

The Data Is Clear: American Schools Are Failing Our Children

In Maine, 74 percent of fourth graders cannot read at grade level and 75 percent of eighth graders cannot do math, while only 35 percent of parents are satisfied.

Sep 1, 2026