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
Mainers, 2026 Midterms: Time to Reclaim Blaine House!
Mainers outnumbered by voter registration are starting to come out of the closet in anticipation of the 2026 midterm election. In the context of a rising tide of federal revitalization and initiative and Democrat opposition in an obvious state of disarray, our state…
Maine Governor Sparks National Debate on Male Participation in Girls’ Sports
Why has Maine’s Governor chosen to draw national attention to our corner of the country over the issue of male participation in girls’ sports? What do we stand to gain from this folly? Is it helpful to be linked with the likes of radical Minnesota and California on an…
Schumer’s Serious Face Reflects Democratic Party’s Disarray and Disassociation
Does anyone recall seeing Senate minority leader Charles Schumer laugh or even smile lately? His new task is to give serious appearance to an unsettled party in disarray as to policy, protocol and procedure. Its shameful and deliberate disassociation from the rest of…
Disappointed Democrats: Why the Reflexive Negativity to Successors’ Policies?
Why do disappointed Democrats continue to demean themselves by reflexively reacting negatively and obstreporously to any policy initiative taken by their successors?They refuse to take the easy path to immediate respectability by failing to support several…
America at 250: Reassessing Democracy Amid Political Failures
The role of democratic government is to establish and maintain a society in which personal freedom is maintained within a collective context of well-being and individual opportunity. Public safety, economic sustainability, and moral consistency are the foundational…
Transgenderism: Human Construct or Natural Phenomenon? Trump’s Leadership Style Questioned
Is the notion of transgenderism strictly a figment of the ‘advanced‘ human mind? Where are the animal species with evidence of other than male and female characteristics – horses, cattle, deer, dogs, cats, rabbits, skunks, mice and so on? Are some of us simply…
Maine Government: Transparent or Obscure? Calls for Efficiency Audit Grow
Would you say that Maine government is relatively low in visibility and transparency? Our population seems to have become accustomed to thinking of it as a caretaker and regulator rather than a potential instrument of adaptive and creative socio-economic change. How…
Why such Blame and Disparagement?
What should we think of the large numbers of disappointed Americans openly rooting for their newly installed government to fail, even though they cannot offer or hope to install a credible replacement slate? Can an agenda of constant blame and disparagement be the…
Presidential Candidacy: Unveiling Risks of Minimal Vetting Before the 2024 Election
Are the hidden advantages to delayed and hasty presidential candidacy from cursory personal background investigation finally coming to light within a month of the national election?Can it be a total surprise that minimal vetting of millions of illegal immigrants has…
Merit vs. Identity: Rethinking What Qualifies for White House Leadership
Should White House occupancy be based on meritorious individual accomplishment, party affiliation, or personality traits? In our “advanced” society, it was distressing last week to see a former President openly advocate for public ballot support to be based on race…
Maine Governor’s Defiant Stance on President’s Transparency Sparks Controversy
How many Mainers are reveling in their Governor’s insolent public condemnation of a President being as transparent as possible about his leadership intentions with respect to gender identity? Our state may be a geographic outlier, but it doesn’t need to be far out of…
Assessing Blame: Trumps Legacy vs. Bidens Leadership Amid Ongoing Divisions
Who is at Fault? Democrats delight in castigating decisive Donald Trump on grounds of personality rather than his noteworthy 2017-21 socioeconomic accomplishment, disrupted by a global health phenomenon.Based on subsequent circumstances, isn’t it appropriate to…
Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports: Fairness or Rivalry?
Have I had the wrong (male) perspective on the subject of mixed biological rivalry in athletic endeavors? Should we be sensitive to the personal shame and sense of inadequacy that must accompany a transgender athlete’s failure to win a women’s track competition? What…
Same-Party Control: A Threat to Pragmatic Governance in Our Democracy
The worst election outcome for our democratic republic is same-party control of the White House and both chambers of Congress.No president can wander too far from the centrist path of consensus under those circumstances. Theoretically, the smaller the respective…
Election Integrity in Crisis: Whistleblower Exposes Debate Misconduct and Its Consequences
Does “the land of the free and home of the brave” now also include the indoctrinated, deceived and misled? Whistleblower revelations of ABC News presidential debate misconduct in making sample questions available to one candidate in advance leaves an irrevocable black…
Voter Skepticism Grows as Political Party Faces Uncertain Future Ahead of Election
Trust us; you’ll like what you get! That’s the implicit campaign message from an incumbent political party in the throes of dramatic, unanticipated leadership change following a disappointing four-year term of governance.With less than two months until the 2024…
New Administration Shines: Youthful, Energetic, Ready to Tackle National Challenges
After four years of federal governance by an enfeebled President and a supporting cast largely comprised of DEI symbols, the new administration stands in clear contrast. It is more youthful, more energetic, more businesslike, more accessible, more delegating, more…
Is America’s Internal Division the New Threat to Unity and National Identity?
The last time Americans had a compelling cause for coalescence of spirit and effort was more than 80 years ago – the external threat and reality of World War II on two global battlefronts. The decisive end of that conflict with nuclear weaponry has since been a…
Is America’s Democracy at Risk from Rising Threats and Media Misinformation?
Is America’s “beacon of democracy” dimming toward darkness as other-world means of effecting leadership change become more threatening here?Could the established process of quadrennial election be replaced by prompt and permanent elimination of those occupying or…
Party Pushes Divisive Slave Reparations, Igniting Debate on Historical Guilt
A political party desperate to regain relevance after a massive change in its election support has reintroduced its backward-looking notion of financial reparations for living descendants of slaves. This blatantly discriminatory suggestion is devilish in two major…

