January 29, 2026
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Interview with Jerry Leeman: Today we bring you a story about a handful of fishermen rallying against a billion-dollar green industrial project, shady foreign corporations, and our own federal and state government. All are conspiring to generate a cash cow for...
By Greg Yates The criminal case People v Gosselin took place in a little red house structure known as the “Town of Highland Justice Court” located in Sullivan County, New York. This little red structure is also known as the Barryville Town Hall, where court is...
When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted Major H. Michael Gary’s story on X, it wasn’t just a show of support. It was the public validation of a fight that had stretched across four long years—a fight against unlawful mandates, institutional retaliation, and...
By Matthew Cortez As inflation cuts into Mainers’ savings, individuals and businesses are actively seeking ways to protect their hard-earned money. LD 372, sponsored by Sen. Marianne Moore (R-Washington) and Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn), and supported by the Sound …
On March 18, 2025, Colin McWay of Westport Island submitted formal complaints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division regarding the Maine House of Representatives' censure of...
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968Read more
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968Read more
I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968Read more
If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?' -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968Read more
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
A lie cannot live. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968Read more
How can a president not be an actor? -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968Read more
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. -Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004Read more
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. -Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968Read more