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…
Author: Phil Osifer
Can Democrats Restore Trust Before Next Election?
Does the Democrat party merit broad public confidence? After failing timely acknowledgement of physical and mental deterioration of its Presidential standard-bearer and obvious lack of preparedness for prompt and credible succession, how can it best restore public…
DOGE Probe Exposes Devaluation of American Citizenship Benefits
The DOGE investigation in progress is revealing how devalued the concept of American citizenship has become. Over the past four years, about 4-million foreigners admitted to the United States as residents became gratuitous participating beneficiaries of established…
Americans Push for Presidential Change Amid Global Economic Shifts
More Americans are beginning to understand the reasons for electing a Presidential agent of big-picture change rather than one perpetuating a stagnating status quo. International mobility and trade have skewed economic dependency and shifted our leadership stage from…
Fairness in Federal Policy: Balancing Precedent and Future Consequences
Nearly all federal government policy decisions involve issues of perceived popular fairness. Whether it’s the question of transgender competition in women’s athletics or financial reparations for perceived past injustices, the fairness remedy must be judged in the…
Musk Praised for Tesla, Criticized for Government Audit Fallout
Observers who lauded Elon Musk for addressing a perceived environmental threat by pioneering Tesla electric vehicles to mitigate climate change now castigate him for voluntarily conducting a forensic audit of government financial management. “Follow the money”…
American Democracy Fails: Public Demands DOGE Probe into Budget Crisis
It’s a sad commentary on the state of American democracy when broad public support for investigation of the causes of growing budget imbalances and escalating national indebtedness is thwarted. Two established parties claiming to favor fiscal prudence and balanced…
Is Governor Mills Maine’s Biden? Leadership Questioned Amid Social, Economic Struggles
Is Governor Janet Mills the de facto Joe Biden of Maine – an elected leader more by reason of party-line fealty than noteworthy executive accomplishment? As our state experiences deleterious side effects of supposed societal advances like offshore wind turbines,…
DOGE Report Exposes Decades of Government Waste, Fraud, and Corruption
Adult Americans of all political persuasions should be appalled at DOGE investigation findings of years of government incompetence and irresponsibility in federal financial management. Overdue independent, in-depth questioning of why the national debt burden has…
Should Citizenship Be Birthright or Earned? Americans Divided on Immigration
It appears that some portion of our citizenry approves granting of that status to newcomers of all backgrounds and persuasions who enter the country illegally. That group includes expectant mothers of foreign descent who happen to ‘drive in’ to a hospital immediately…
Political Decorum Plummets: 2024 Election Fallout Sparks Threats and Destruction
American political decorum has reached a deplorable new level as elements disappointed by the 2024 election outcome resort to illegal, intemperate and incendiary measures to express their outrage about overdue efforts to disclose questionable government financial…
Is Mobster Mentality Infiltrating a U.S. Political Party?
Is one of America’s political parties succumbing to “mobster” infiltration? Street demonstrations against a popularly elected government, personal assassination threats to leading officials, and contrived propaganda concerning policy motivation and direction are not…
Post-Election Mail Overload: Are Political Causes Wasting Funds?
The daily volume of regular and e-mail continues months after the 2024 election. I must wonder whether extraordinary production and messaging costs of reaching me are indicative of the political and social causes they strive to promote. Four tote bags and multiple…
Governor’s Flippant Remark Risks $400M in Federal Funding
What was she thinking? Could she have been thinking at all? One spontaneous, reflexive, thoughtless, flippant five-word remark to the President by our partisan Governor in a Washington crowd of state leadership peers, “We’ll see you in court”, irresponsibly risks loss…
Government Shutdown Avoidance Sparks Outrage: Hiding Corruption in Congress?
Why does the decision to avoid a government shutdown seem offensive to so many members of Congress? Could it be a desire to forestall intensive investigation and revelation of serious lack of judgment and oversight in determining specific applications of taxpayer…
US Trade Imbalances Spark Tariff Debates and ‘Buy American’ Push
All countries have trade imbalances, particularly smaller ones lacking a diversity of wealth-creating natural resources and production capabilities. As a result, tariff impositions are a common means of squaring accounts, so to speak, to protect their economies from…
Has Congress Surrendered Governance to Courts Amid Legal Challenges?
Has Congress effectively ceded its Constitutional governance responsibilities to the courts? It seems as though every aggrieved party is now seeking judicial redress with every conceivable challenge to established law, however remote. Politicized court shopping at…
Protesters Wave Negativity: Is Discontent Enough to Challenge New Leadership?
Does it make sense to gather, stand and wave in a wintry public place for a cause that offers no positive, uplifting message – only dissatisfaction with new government leadership? Is the prompt reality of “promises made, promises kept” a sudden surprise to those…
Trump’s Bold Style Outshines Biden’s Restrained Leadership
The Style of Presidential substance I sense that relatively few Americans really understand and appreciate the breadth and depth of successful leadership responsibility for very large and complex organizations. The stark contrast in commitment and style between our…
Maine’s Budgetary Prudence: Time for DOGE-like Oversight?
To what extent is Maine committed to extract from its movers and shakers to support a multitude of dependent takers? What would an independent, DOGE-like investigation reveal about our state’s budgetary prudence? Why wouldn’t a responsible Governor, treasurer and…
Is Open-Minded Dialogue Dead in Polarized Politics?
Have you noticed how few open-minded people you encounter these days when it comes to politicized issues? Is constructive dialogue going to be encouraged by waving derisive placards at passing motorists? Do such demonstrations prove anything other than personal desire…

