Free Press Opinion: Are we now bent over an oil barrel in Iran?
"We are the United States of America and there is nothing we can't do if we do it together." — President Joe Biden
Free Press Opinion: Some things never change
When I was younger, so much younger than today (credit The Beatles for that lyric from "Help"), television networks would rerun programs that had…
Free Press Opinion: Is socialism advancing our expiration date?
It has become a truism that people who are embracing socialism have never had to live under it and its ideological twin, communism. Young…
Free Press Opinion: Can demon Hamas be transformed?
President Trump and members of his administration are (pick your metaphor) whistling past the graveyard, engaging in wishful thinking and/or deluding themselves into believing…
Free Press Opinion: Wasn’t Trump just another ‘nattering nabob of negativism’?
President Trump's performance at Friday's retooled White House Correspondents' Dinner made me nostalgic for the days of Vice President Spiro Agnew, President Richard Nixon's…
Free Press Opinion: In Maine, Troy Jackson is Graham Platner lite
Troy Jackson, the Maine Democratic Party prospective nominee for the Senate, is Graham Platner lite. Platner withdrew from the race to face incumbent Republican…
Free Press Opinion: A domestic enemy in our midst? You bet
The oath is a familiar one. The president and vice president take it, as do members of Congress and many other high government officials.…
Free Press Opinion: The more things change, the more things remain the same
The French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr knew what he was talking about when, in 1849, he coined the phrase "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." (The more things change, the more they remain the same.) It has been repeated and attributed to different people, but he appears to have said it first.
Free Press Opinion: When the guardrails are destroyed
People of a certain age were taught to respect the police, obey the law, and other rules and regulations mostly practiced by our parents and grandparents. They believed such things would lead to better lives for themselves and for the nation. For many, they did.
Free Press Opinion: Graham Platner is not Democrats’ only problem
The troubles Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing (he may have withdrawn by the time you read this) are only a small part of his party's larger problem.
