A November 9, 2020 Gallup poll titled, Trust, Media and Democracy, identified that while 81% of Americans believe media is vital for democracy, 46% do not believe our media can be trusted. In that poll 3 of 4 people also believe the media is pushing an agenda....
Six months ago, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists advanced the Doomsday Clock because of the Ukraine war. The clock attempts to quantify the risk of nuclear war and the “End of the World.” It was advanced to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest to nuclear war it has...
Post World War II America was the most successful and powerful country in the history of the world. In less than 200 years we had become the universally respected leader of the free world, to all a shining beacon of hope and freedom. Many would say we are no longer...
Lie to me once, shame on you, lie to me twice, shame on me. It is an old saying and puts accountability on the gullible that continue to believe a liar. Many remember Climategate 2009 when climate “scientists” emails were leaked showing them covering up and hiding...
Not long ago, elections were won and lost by a simple question; are you better off than you were 4 years ago? Jimmy Carter lost in 1980 due to a bad economy, inflation, high oil prices, the hostage crisis, and no clear answers or a vision of how to proceed. It ushered...
Life expectancy is falling in the United States. Life expectancy is possibly the most definitive indicator of the health of a nation. It is a proxy of material things such as adequate housing, access to clean water and nutritious food, a clean environment, access to...
We have periodic headlines of scientific events. Three recent ones come to mind. In 2011, a headline read “Faster Than Light Particles Make Time Travel Possible, Scientist Says”. I am an Einstein fan. If this were true it would be a monumental challenge to his work....
By Joe Grant, Wiscasset How much is it worth to you to live in a Conservative state? To have good schools and an education system that respects the parents and the students, to feel safe in your home and on the streets, to have businesses and employers in Maine so...
Joe Grant, Wiscasset Bill LD-34, An Act to Require a Person to Show Photographic Identification for the Purpose of Voting, is going through Maine’s legislative process. It will make our elections more honest and is long overdue.Recent Rasmussen polls have shown that...
By Joe Grant, Wiscasset Battery-powered cars (BPCs) are becoming less glamorous as people realize that they do not produce power but rather are “storage devices” and require a lot of time and electrical power to charge. That, coupled with the self-igniting and...
By Joe Grant- I remember Martin Luther King Junior’s speech “I Have a Dream” and wonder what our country would look like if he had lived to shape that dream. Today, almost 60 years later, as I watch our country split apart by violence, riots, buildings being looted...
By Joe Grant, Wiscasset Collateral damage and not so friendly fire. Our young are victims in the cultural war. Children have an enhanced and amazing ability to learn in a handful of critical years. The human brain reaches its maximum size at age 10 for girls and 14...
Soon we will be electing our “leaders” for the next two years. It is unusual to have a single party in control of our state and the federal government. In the current election cycle, Democrats control the Presidency, the Governorship, and both houses of the Federal...
I read a severe critique of the United States nuclear power industry in the July 1 Lincoln County News. Unfortunately, our nuclear power industry is in decline as new construction has stopped and our reactors age. The US nuclear industry has an enviable safety record....
The Republican Party was formed as an anti-slavery party and has been the leader in civil rights since its inception. Under Lincoln, a Civil War was fought and won, slavery was ended, and the Republic saved. For a brief time, during Reconstruction (1865-1877), civil rights for freed slaves were enforced.
Ninety-two years ago, this January, Martin Luther King Junior was born. I remember his “I Have a Dream” speech and wonder what our country would look like if he had lived to shape that dream. Today as I watch our country split apart by violence, riots, buildings being looted and burned, our history being rewritten even to Lincoln’s statue being removed – Lincoln, another man whose life was cut short before his dream of freedom and equality for all was realized.
A March 21 article from the Pew Research Center titled, Public Trust in Government 1958 – 2021 Near Historic Lows stated only 2% trusted the government to do what was right “just about always” and 22% trusted the government to do what was right “most of the...
Is Marxism a Christian value - does it lead to a better life on Earth? Many Christians support at least some of the stated principles of Marxism and many are in full support of socialism and the liberal agenda. Properly framed, Marxist ideas sound like Christian...
Little has changed after another year of global warming headlines. All of Maine's record highs and most of the world’s Continental high temperature records remain unchanged. Maine’s record high temperature of 105°F set July 10, 1911, in North Bridgton, is now one...
For Karl Marx, hate, generated by class envy, was the tool for liberation. Hate was not a byproduct; it was the tool. Revolution would not happen until the common man attacked their oppressor. All people were binned into two categories the oppressed and the oppressor...
