Maine politics
A Sanctuary City Newspaper Shamelessly Ignores the Elephant in the Room: Immigration
The far-left folks at Maine’s Portland Press Herald are pretending to be concerned by the fact that their city’s native-born...
Maine’s Dishonest Secretary of State
Photo Credit: Andy Jacobsohn/The Daily Beast Like other blue state officials – like Minnesota, Illinois, and California – Maine’s Democrat...
Leadership, Grace, and Margaret Chase Smith
Former Republican US Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) was a clear-headed, unapologetic national security conservative. She was the first woman...
High Taxes, Green Lies, and Democrat Failure
The six states with the highest tax burdens are Hawaii, New York, Vermont, California, Maine, and Illinois, based on income,...
Trust in Government – Vital
President Ronald Reagan and Suzanne Massie | Photo Credit: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library God has a way of teaching us that...
Communism. Is It Here? You Tell Me.
From where does our commitment to freedom come? Are we living it? Do we fully grasp what is happening around...
Ending Blue State Corruption
Maine Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows. Nationally, only seven states in the 2020s had one conviction for public corruption. If...
Irony, Accountability, and Light
Irony of the day: We live in highly consequential times – encouraged to accept evil as good, good as evil, told...
New York and Maine – Trouble in Paradise
New York just elected a communist, antisemitic, Muslim mayor, and Maine is tipping that way. There is plainly trouble in...
Maine Swamped by Illegal Drugs
Maine is becoming the poster child for failed leadership in the drug area. Maine is now being aggressively targeted by...
Twin Monster – Illegal Immigration and Drug Trafficking
Maine and other blue states face a twin monster – illegal immigration and pervasive, devastating drug trafficking. President Trump is...
Going Vertical – Deporting Illegal Aliens
As President Trump hits the afterburners, taking anti-illegal alien deportation vertical, Maine should be in formation, wingtip-to-wingtip. We are the...
At Our Best
I looked out today on “evening light,” just when the sun falls below six degrees each day, scattering blue light,...
Maine’s Arrogant Supreme Court
Mainers need a new State Supreme Court. Why? All seven Democrat-appointed justices, who serve seven-year terms, are activists – not...
Democrats: Cocky For The Wrong
Maine’s shameless Democrat Governor, Janet Mills – and her uncontrollable party – act like they own Maine, are a “force...
Blue States are Sinking
Blue States are sinking. This is not Norman Rockwell’s America. Democrat-dominated Maine is becoming inner city Chicago, or DC, or...
Integrity is Your Destiny
We live in a world that “up values” graft, nonsense, and noise, “down values” what matters, like integrity. In Maine...
Epiphany – Public Corruption Can Be Stopped
President Trump has brought to light, better than any, how bureaucracy run amok and failed accountability destroy a republic. They...
Maine Democrats: Split Loyalties, Conflicts of Interest, and Public Corruption
Democrat Maine Senate leader, Mattie Daughtry (D-Cumberland) - Photo Credit | Troy R. Bennett / BDN Public corruption is here. In...
Illegal is Not Illegal?
The national ACLU and Maine ACLU are making another crazy argument, imagine that? They have literally, on film and in...
Charlie Kirk – Common Sense Comes Home
If there were ever a sign that Maine – and other blue states – are waking up, getting ready to...
Cancellation by Defamation – Will Not Work
My first reaction to the “hit piece” on me, a baseless column by Maine Trust papers writer Steve Collins, was...
Good for Me, Not Thee
How hypocritical does it get before people get nauseous, decide they have had enough? Maine’s radical Democrat Governor Mills, whose...
Why Maine Will Change – Go Republican
Maine – like many Democrat-controlled states – has had enough. It is in a tailspin. Democrats invite and fund illegal...
Is Your Country America, or Somalia?
Maine Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D-South Portland) Democrats in many blue states – like Maine – maintain narrow control by sweeping...
DOGE – For Every State
Every state – starting with Maine – should have a “department of government efficiency” or DOGE – a permanent, 24/7,...
Don’t Settle, or Old Bats Beware
The other day, a friend told me a story. They have two cats, and one is a mouser; the other...
Trump, Civil Rights, and Action
Occasionally, I ponder the bullet we dodged, what might have been – the Harris-Walz mess – and breathe a sigh...
Where Cynicism Meets Bedrock
We live in odd times, whether on the sidelines or center stage. When it comes to politics, we default to...
Making Blue States Red
Maine, like many blue states, has long suffered from reckless, uneven, increasingly ideological, and ultimately damaging leadership, which boils down...
Maine Governorship Campaign – Another Lesson
A conservative running to be Maine’s governor learns a lot, learns daily. One lesson is to expect the unexpected, at...
About Helpless Bureaucrats
As Democrats protest to save the “helpless bureaucrats,” those sure they are victims of Trump’s demand for accountability, a few...
Whip Cracking – Corralling Government Contractors
Federal and state governments make almost nothing. They push paper, contract with the private sector for what needs making, doing,...
Rock Flipping – Reagan, Gingrich, Trump, and Maine
Years ago, my job was “rock flipping” – for Speaker Gingrich. Over five years, my job was to investigate, dig...
Thanks to the National Guard
This is not over. President Trump has, it appears, exercised authority under Title 10 to deploy the California National Guard...
Cracking Down on Bureaucracy
Some years ago, confirmed as Assistant Secretary of State to Colin Powell, I had three charges: Go after drug traffickers...
Short Story – About Oversight
Vision, belief, and effort. In 1994, Republicans – led by Newt Gingrich – won the U.S. House, flipping 54 seats,...
No, We Are Never Alone
Alone? No. We are never alone, and we do not need another federal or state program, another Harvard study, or...
Some Epic Words – Margaret Chase Smith
Last Sunday, June 1, was the 75th anniversary of a speech by Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith on the US...
Governorship Race – Lesson Three
We all need “summer feet.” Did you ever run as a kid, like my sisters, brother, and me, barefoot? Those...
Governorship Campaign – Lesson Two
Pain is real. Darned if you don’t learn every day talking with people, listening to their stories, soaking up their...
The Hardest Things
Political involvement – of any kind, in any place, for any reason – involves opening yourself up to criticism, embracing...
ICE in Maine – Creating Deterrence
Since President Trump’s inauguration, much has changed – including the attitude of those in the US illegally, or intending to...
Governorship Campaign – Lesson One
Since patriotic Americans, those who appreciate our exceptional past, live those values, and want to preserve them, there are many...
“Ivy Leaguer, Eh?”
Politics is amusing – in Maine and nationwide. Suddenly the irrelevant is relevant, and relevant irrelevant. Examples abound, but here...
Another Defeat for Gender Ideology at the Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a major victory for free speech and a significant blow to gender ideologues this week...
Civil Rights Award for Violating Civil Rights – What Next?
Just when you thought madness did not come in other flavors, Maine’s arch-progressive, unapologetically belligerent, anti-civil rights governor, the shameless...
Maine Democrat Leaders – Beware
Some states lead in nonsense – and public corruption. Maine is one. As Maine’s Democrat-controlled legislative session crashes to an...
“One if By Sea…”
We are in a cultural revolution. Did you notice? Democrats have not stopped coming, not stopped their “Progressive” agenda, elections...
Trump v. Mills – Three Questions
Since their famous face-off in the White House, when President Trump reacted to Maine’s Governor Mills' bizarre threats, willingness to...
Families and Government – Change Needed
If you are a parent, might become one, or come from a family you are close to, what do you...
President Trump – Please Send ICE to Maine
Last week, true to his promise of a sweep to remove foreign criminals from US soil, a complex and important...
Clear Thinking – Reject Evil, Choose Truth
Moving from Easter to “Bright Week,” time to assess our challenges – even as Easter and Spring deliver hope, renewal,...
Restructuring the Economy – Trump Does Not Blink
Lots of ink – or electrons – have been spilled on President Trump’s high-fidelity, highly focused DOGE effort to clean...
Common Sense, Maine, and the Future
In March 1775, 250 years ago, a bright American named Tom Paine pushed liberty. Friends with the mastermind Ben Franklin,...
Bobby Charles Launches Run for Governor to Keep Maine Safe & Affordable
AMAC’s very own National Spokesman, Bobby Charles, is taking on the swamp and running for Governor of Maine! AUGUSTA, Maine, April...
Maine Becoming Sorry Poster Child of ‘Woke Gone Mad’
Maine is becoming the sad, sorry posterchild for “woke gone mad” – a failed attempt to govern based on belligerent...
Politics is Not a Game
Politics is not a game, even if many “Progressive” Democrats think so. In Maine, one party has ruled for nearly...
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