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
Kamala Harris: Unfit for Leadership and Lacking Genuine Presidential Qualities
Kamala Harris is demonstrably unfit to be installed as our national leader. She is neither exceptionally intelligent nor quick-witted and continues to expose her unworthiness to accede to the presidency by party fiat rather than traditional election campaign vetting...
Kamala Harris: Navigating Leadership or Relying on Handlers at 60?
Can Kamala Harris learn to be her own person at age 60?If not, can she use a discreet earphone so the unseen handlers can provide immediate guidance during potential public appearances and media questioning exposure? After gaining her party’s nomination by hastily...
DOGE Backlash Grows: Embarrassing Government Spending Exposed
The contrived backlash to “DOGE” revelations about indiscriminate government spending on various non-essential and special-interest causes becomes more embarrassing as the list of difficult-to-defend expenditures lengthens. Americans of all political persuasions...
Price Controls: A Misguided Economic Solution from a Presidential Candidate?
It's not a good sign when the first proposal from a Presidential candidate is to institute selective mandatory price controls on essential consumer items.Anyone with a sense of basic economics recognizes that widespread inflation is a consequence of government fiscal...
America’s Leadership Crisis: Choosing Proven Advocates Over Inexperienced Politicians
It is astonishing that America, the model of republican democracy and free enterprise, could become a threatening symbol of potential dictatorial government.The opening election-campaign price-control balloon from a hastily reconstituted incumbent regime does not...
Policy Promises: Will Harris-Walz Push Us Toward Inflation and Selective Government Aid?
Given a glimpse of early Harris-Walz policy thinking, we must wonder whether their presumed grounding in basic economics occurred in North America.Political desperation is evident in trial-balloon pronouncements to follow targeted Biden student-loan forgiveness with...
Too Much to Expect?
Is it too much to expect politicians accustomed to profligate campaign spending of supporters’ voluntary contributions to change the post-election temptation of access to massive resources of other people’s’ money by taxation? Recent widening exposure of past...
Confronting Antisemitism: A Call for Respecting Jewish Contributions in America
Like it or not, Jews have made important contributions to the American way of life over the past century.They have proven to be shrewd, resourceful, motivated, adaptable, successful in business and professional endeavors, and personally philanthropic.In that light of...
Experience vs. Evasiveness: The Race for America’s Unconventional Election Year
Should we be more inclined to support an experienced Presidential candidate willing to talk off the cuff at length and in detail on virtually any subject - or an opponent who either is evasive or relies on repetition of carefully scripted teleprompter messaging in...
Hail to the red, white and blue
How many Mainers would admit to any shortcomings in ability to think for themselves politically? Do you read more than one publication or scan more than one television channel? Have too many of us become intimidated about debating the policies and regulations that...
Election Campaigns Unveil Strains in U.S.-Israel Relations Amid Rising Islamic Influence
Perhaps the most threatening aspect of our current election campaigns is an outing of the extent to which close historical affinity between the United States and Israel is being subverted by open Islamic interference.This troubling situation raises the question of...
Who’s Really Investing in America? Unpacking the Presidential Candidates’ Commitments and Records
Which Presidential candidate is devoting very substantial personal funds to the campaign budget - and simultaneously supporting legal defenses against multiple contrived courtroom attempts to derail it?Are this committed individual and his running mate more worthy...
Can Traditional Party Labels Survive an Evolving Political Landscape in the 2024 Election?
Is there reason to expect traditional party registration labels to remain indicative of the likely 2024 Presidential election outcome?The philosophical composition of both sides appears in the throes of demographic change that may cause revised allegiance of various...
America’s Shift: Blue to Red Migration Reflects Deepening Divisions
America is Evolving In an increasingly evident sense, America no longer is functioning as the originally envisioned United States. People and companies are relocating from blue states to red and vice versa, based on observed governance, economic conditions, and...
Political Showmanship vs. Substance: A Misstep in Candidate’s Economic Messaging
Americans witnessed last week a remarkably well-produced political show orchestrated by artful and clever speechwriters lacking substantive reference material. They were afforded only a few days to apply a veneer of appeal to an ill-advised and prematurely exposed...
Harriss Policy Trials: A Reflection on Lawlessness and Waning American Patriotism
Has anyone noticed that none of the trial-ballooned policy notions floated by staff surrogates for presidential aspirant Harris has gained any traction?This finger-in-the-wind approach enables the candidate to disclaim responsibility while signaling to backers a...
Senile Leadership or Visible Officials: Which Governs Better?
Is it better to have a government nominally led by a senile President but ostensibly operated by a group of unseen and unidentified supporters and bureaucrats - or one with highly visible elected officials assisted by credible outside advisers? Do the inevitable...
Choosing Leadership: The Appeal of Adaptability Versus Inconsistent Values in Today’s Politics
In the stress of a divided nation and troubled world, which type of “flip-flopper” makes the most desirable choice for president - one who reverses declared personal values without rationale, or one who can adapt from bullying to benevolent as circumstances dictate?...
Examining Voter Training for Immigrants: A Threat to American Democracy?
How benign and humanistic is it to offer free voter training to recent illegal immigrants from about 180 countries, many of whom have limited English language skills and lack pertinent knowledge of American history and societal norms?Wouldn’t crash courses in...
2024 Presidential Race: Leadership Experience vs. Symbolism Amid Political Turmoil
Are we about to install as President a business executive with prior duly elected and positive experience in that highly visible role - or a former courtroom prosecutor atypically party-selected as running mate for a sitting President unexpectedly destined to be...

