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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...
The Portland Teachers Union has reversed course and is now urging voters to support the city’s proposed school budget when they go to the polls next week. This comes after district leaders vowed to add back five educational technician positions next year, as well as make an effort to reduce administrative costs. Late last month,
Noble High School in Berwick took down an Israeli flag found flying above an American flag on school property on Monday after an image of it began circulating on social media. Principal AJ Dufort explained that the flag was not placed by the school and that they believe it was flown by vandals. [RELATED: Noble
A four-time Emmy winner and University of Southern Maine grad is back in front of the camera, proving there are second acts. Or, in the case of Tony Shalhoub, third, fourth and so on… Shalhoub will play Matthew Gray-Gubler’s dad on “Einstein,” which joins CBS’ 2026-27 broadcast season and is currently in production. The role
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Protect Girls Sports in Maine ballot question committee says more than 3,300 public comments submitted to the Secretary of State’s Office helped force revisions to the proposed wording of its 2026 citizen initiative. The committee called the total “historic,” saying it represents the highest number of public comments ever recorded for
Gov. Janet Mills (D) held an event at Westbrook High School earlier this week celebrating a new policy that was signed into law as part of the supplemental budget which bars students from having cell phones in public schools during the day. The statewide bell-to-bell ban represents a departure from the policy adopted by lawmakers
The Portland teachers union is urging voters to reject the $179.3 million school budget that was sent to the ballot unanimously by the City Council last week. As reported by the Portland Press Herald, the union has argued that the proposed budget favors administrative positions over those which are based in schools. Never before has
Related development: former Harbor Commission chairman reveals FBI investigated previous city administration. University of New England’s president has sued Biddeford city officials after failing to resolve a bitter zoning fight with them, raising the stakes to a new level of confrontation. James Herbert claims he had no other option to persuade the city to stop
Portland voters are being asked to weigh in on a $179.3 million school budget at the ballot box this June. As proposed, the school budget would carry a 5.68 percent school-side property tax increase, equating to a roughly $200 annual hike on a median-priced $566,600 home. Due to declining enrollment, the state subsidy received by
If we continue as we have been, the prospect of our children living shorter, less healthy lives than we do is a real possibility.
The U.S. House scored a victory for parental rights on Wednesday, passing a bill to prevent schools from hiding gender transitions from parents despite opposition from Reps. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Jared Golden (D-Maine). [RELATED: OCP Policy Director and Radical Leftist Running for Augusta School Board Previously Raised Funds for Abortion and “Gender Affirming Care”…]
The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case during their next term concerning whether all school employees can bring sex discrimination lawsuits under a law governing educational institutions receiving federal funding. A judge for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the statutory language does not provide a “private right of
SULLIVAN, Maine – A Maine parents’ advocacy organization is calling for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) to be banned from school properties across the state following resurfaced online posts and a growing list of controversies that have engulfed his campaign. In a media release issued Wednesday, Parents’ Rights in Education Maine and RSU
Platner’s “Platform” is presented in most of his supporting reports as if he would have any serious political position in the US senate, were he to be…
LEWISTON, Maine – The Lewiston School Committee met Monday night to take another run at its fiscal year 2027 budget after voters rejected the original proposal at the polls last week, forcing school officials to make deeper reductions before sending the spending plan back to taxpayers. The May 12 referendum failed 1,463 to 1,092, with
When dessert turns into a science experiment… A trio of students at Medomak Valley High School in Waldoboro got a very unexpected “menu item” last week after what started as a normal school science experiment somehow made its way into a cafeteria meal. The incident happened during the Empty Bowl Supper, last Wednesday, according to
The Biddeford zoning board has rejected University of New England’s request to start cutting down trees for a new research pier. “A big win for those who have expressed opposition to a new pier along the Saco River,” Biddeford Buzz reported. The school had wanted to clear trees along the waterway as well as demolish
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.
A proper celebration of the Declaration will be helpful in all our troubles. It will be helpful to the young men and women who are lost today by helping them to rediscover nature and reason.
Charlie, you see, has suffered enough. He’s gone to the Lord. He deserves his reward.
Millions of Americans are asking for a reexamination of our culture and society with an eye to restoring ancient decency and looking to the good of past generations.
The Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) sent letters to members of the National Panhellenic Conference’s (NPC) 26 sororities Wednesday urging them to tell NPC to keep sororities open only to women. IWF’s “Tell National Panhellenic Conference And Sorority Leadership: Save Our Sisterhood” letter, first shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation, urges sorority members to sign
The Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday Maryland parents’ challenge to a ban on opting their young children out of storybook readings about pride parades, gender transitions and drag queens. The predominantly Muslim and Christian parents behind the case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, argue the Montgomery County Board of Education is infringing on their free exercise rights
As the deadline set in a letter of impasse the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights had sent to Maine state officials two weeks ago drew down to its final hours, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey’s office issued a response saying the state would neither sign a resolution agreement nor propose an alternative
An employee of the Guilford area school district (SAD 4) has been arrested and charged with possession of child pornography, according to an email Friday morning from the district’s superintendent. “I have been informed that an employee of the District was arrested and charged with possession of sexually explicit material,” Superintendent Kelly MacFadyen said in
Terri Cooper, the superintendent of the RSU 21 district that includes the town of Kennebunk, ended her controversial five years at the helm of the York County school district on Wednesday by resigning to the local board, which quickly accepted her notice of departure. “I’m sobbing with relief,” said Kennebunk parent Melissa McCue-McGrath. “My child
Dr. Nirav Shah, former head of the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC), will be joining the faculty of Colby College this fall to teach courses on public health, the liberal arts college announced on Thursday. Shah, who served as head of the Maine CDC from 2019 to 2023 and was Maine’s
It may become possible to restore constitutional government in place of the administrative or bureaucratic state that has almost overtaken it. That is the issue that matters the most. The worst evils stem from it. The strongest resistance guards its entrenchment.
It’s the first line of our Constitution. But do we really know what it means? David Zuniga, author of the 2024 book, Now When We Rise, searched for years to discover the meaning of these 3 words handed down by our founding fathers as they created our U.S....
A member of a Portland Public Schools committee charged with redrawing the school district’s attendance boundaries in order to address “demographic disparities” suggested at a meeting this Thursday that the district should try to minimize school choice in order to increase diversity across Portland schools. [RELATED: Equity: Portland Schools to Consider Redrawing Enrollment Boundaries to
Redfin.com lists $415,600 as the median sale price for a home In Maine, up 4.7% ($18,656) compared to last year. Home ownership is one gauge of the economic health of a country. The ability to buy a home is affected by average cost of homes, wages, interest rates,...
In a recent issue of The Maine Anchor, we presented a conference spearheaded by Charlotte T. Iserbyt in 2012 in which she presented “The Devil’s 7-Pronged Fork.” Charlotte was a senior policy adviser in the department of education under the Regan administration, and...
How mRNA Vaccine Cell Damage Can Be Reversed Through Lipid Replacement Therapy Vital Signs – “Our health is the composite of our states of body, mind, and soul. Each of these domains influences the other, and can either nourish or deplete the others, depending on how...
With the adoption of their new transgender policy ACAAA, SAD75 has willingly entered a dangerous realm. The policy claims to provide a safe learning environment for the transgender student population. However, it fails to acknowledge the blatant disregard for the...
Dear Editor: Many persons of liberal persuasion seem to relish condemning America for its historical experience with slavery. Their virtuous posture fails to recognize a corresponding present-day reality of reliance on others to perform lower-paying tasks demeaned by...
The New Deal, Great Society & Bidenomics by Michael Ozga Centrally planned economies are economic malfeasance. They are social welfare schemes predicated upon government intervention, excessive regulation, tax & spend mentality, inhibited growth, high...
Section 1 Natural rights: "All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable Rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and of pursuing and...
Maine stands up. Date: May 30th 2023 A.D Preamble: The entire world is sitting at a fork in the road. To the left, We the People can keep going in the manner we have been for the last century and a half. This current of the lazy river merely involves doing what...
The entire de facto financial system is nothing more than a private-central banking debt-based fiat-currency Ponzi scheme. The purpose of this conglomeration of vehicles is to siphon your lifeforce, sweat-equity (intellectual and physical labor energy) into the hands...
The Freedom Rally, a highly anticipated event, is set to take place today from 12pm to 6pm in Ellsworth, Maine. The rally will be held at the esteemed John Linnehan's Constitution Hall, a fitting venue for an event centered around celebrating constitutional rights and...
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...
What comes to your mind when you hear the word anarchy? Is it a scene like unto "Mad Max Fury Road" or the Fallout video game series, a dystopian or semi-apocalyptic future, filled with bandits, feral beasts, cannibals, raiders, general chaos, dogs and cats living...
The United States is a Bankrupt debtor entity entirely beholden to its creditors. Here me now, everything I write is fact, excepting error: The U.S. Corporation is not the United States of America, it is a separate entity owned by foreign interests that has been...
People of Maine, stand up and lead, a letter for the Mainers: I. May 20th 2023 The Deep state is pure corruption and must be uprooted. All around the world, from France, to China to Brazil, to the several states of the former American union, People are rising up....
The natural state of mankind in this fallen realm is abject material poverty. Naked you came into this world, and you take nothing with you when you leave. Wealth and prosperity are the exception, not the norm. In recent generations, we have seen the rise of assembly...
The People are the De Jure authority, not the incorporated de facto. Today I was inspired to write this out after an unexpected conversation on the phone. I'm going to keep it basic, so if I'm scant on details bear with me. To those people who are unaware, the way the...
As I peruse and lurk in the various outlets of news, forums, telegram threads, and online comment sections in my own cyber-sphere, I noticed that a number of people (presumably people) are still concerned about "The Debt Crisis" or "The National Debt." One may think...
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...
Many people across America are under the indoctrinated impression that Police, Troopers, Sheriff's and Deputies (Herein simply called "Police" collectively.) are tasked with protecting and serving the Populace. The idea that people may hold in their minds is that the...
~ This is the text of a speech given by the author on May 25, 2022, at an event called “The Hypersexualization of School Children,” sponsored by the Gray Republican Committee in Gray, Maine. ~ Alfred C. Kinsey and Wardell B. Pomeroy are the evil godfathers of the...
Governments and their instruments are instituted by people for the benefit of the populace, that benefit best being: To aid in protecting a man or woman's unalienable rights to freedom, liberty, life, pursuit of happiness, and property. There seems to be a common...
Today I wanted to put forth key questions, to Lawyers and Attorneys, and to Law Enforcement Officers. Well, to be more accurate, to the men and women who at times may act as BAR members and Officers. A Lawyer is a persona, a mask, a person, that must be animated by a...
This article dives into the alarming parallels between US teachers indoctrinating children to ignore their parents and Hitler’s Youth and League of German Girls. Uncover how this is happening today.
While these letters are meant for Maine, in general they may have value elsewhere, across the late United States of America, perhaps beyond. The intended purpose is to post educational, or at minimum, entertaining "letters" that have been written as part of a larger...
There are no more New Worlds. Consider the original “Brexit,” if you will, conceived and executed back in the mid-to-late 18th century. The United States of America, in a revolution born from the chaos of desperation and reaction, effectively severed ties with her...
The following is adapted from a speech delivered at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar on April 24, 2023, in Irving, Texas. In a recent survey of Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries—i.e., all the rich countries in the world—about 60 percent of respondents said they believe that global warming will likely or very
The following is adapted from a talk delivered on February 22, 2023, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Indian Wells, California. Just about everybody on Wall Street knows, despite what you read in the financial press, that the Biden administration’s economic policies are driving our economy into a recessionary ditch. In a recent
The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on March 5, 2023, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on “Big Pharma.” I developed a serious cardiac arrhythmia, ventricular tachycardia, seven years ago. It worsened over the past summer and early fall, and over the past six weeks I’ve had several ambulance
— 17.03.2023 13:32 The Maine Wire The 19th installment of the Twitter Files courtesy of independent journalist Matt Taibbi came out Friday. The new information expands what the American public knows about the shocking lengths to which the federal...
By Representative Katrina Smith Parents are losing the battle in our public schools to be the primary decision maker for their children in life-altering matters. Shockingly, schools across Maine are currently enacting policies that treat a parent as the secondary...
The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on February 7, 2023. Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter last October and the subsequent reporting on the Twitter Files by journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and a handful of others beginning in early December is one of the most important news stories of our
By Christopher Flannery Host, The American Story The following is adapted from an online presentation recorded at Hillsdale College on October 18, 2022. On the mezzanine floor of the Parker House Hotel in Boston hangs a mirror, still today. In the late fall of 1867,...
The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on October 20, 2022, sponsored by the student group Praxis. On April 15, 2020—a full month after President Trump’s fateful news conference that greenlighted lockdowns to be enacted by the states for “15 Days to Flatten the Curve”—the President had a revealing White House
This is what distinguishes his scholarship: courage. Sowell wasn’t afraid. It’s the sort of thing that ought to be commonplace among scholars and intellectuals—and journalists, for that matter—but clearly it is not.
This is a movement that would turn our children against themselves because its advocates know there is no greater harm—no quicker way to bring America to its knees—than by driving our children to do themselves irreversible damage.
No longer simply an academic matter, critical race theory has become a tool of political power. To borrow a phrase from the Marxist theoretician Antonio Gramsci, it is fast achieving “cultural hegemony” in America’s public institutions. More and more, it is driving the vast machinery of the state and society. If we want to succeed in opposing it, we must address it politically at every level.
All indications are that those in power have no intention of allowing Americans to live normally—which for Americans means to live freely—again. And sadly, just as in Galileo’s time, the root of our problem lies in “the experts” and vested academic interests.
It is a consistent characteristic of this country that we have always sought to rise above or move beyond the conditions that are given to us at birth—something not true of every people. To be an American is to believe that the status we are born into is never the final word. We have a spirit of striving, a spirit of hope that goes back to our very beginnings.
Academic institutions should be places where people are free to think and reason about important questions that affect our society and our way of life.
The political freedom that makes a liberal arts education possible requires an ongoing and active defense of liberty.
Not to know what happened before you were born, that is to be always a boy, to be forever a child.
Federal student financial assistance programs are costly, inefficient, byzantine, and fail to serve their desired objectives.
Professional salespersons are graduates who sell goods and services to other professionals. They represent the most prestigious companies in the world.
Not one of you needs me to tell you, though I will remind you anyway, that your Hillsdale education is a gift for which you must be ever grateful.
The law of custom imposes upon me the duty of saying a few things appropriate to the occasion. That duty I shall aim to discharge to the best of my ability
The school kept a stack of Imprimis issues. I picked one up and noticed the motto under the title: “Because ideas have consequences.”
Reforms intended to improve the quality of American education fall into three categories.
Science is exciting partly because single discoveries can change the course of history.
The Hillsdale College faculty is dedicated to fostering the intellectual growth of students by presenting a curriculum that lights paths toward truth
With significant prayer and acts of courage, Hillsdale’s message will continue to represent the ideals we cherish.
The families of our 1.25 million Children’s Scholarship Fund applicants have lit the path to freedom, and they are leading the way.
I wanted to rescue kids from lousy schools and I wanted to offer parents of limited means the freedom to choose the best education for their children.
We realized that there was a need for an organization that would serve as a national clearinghouse of information on existing voucher programs.
Most of us have implicitly bought into a version of history that narrowly limits the debate and thus limits our ability to question the status quo.
In American education today, fashions prevail and evidence is seldom asked for or given.
Right now, in this special place and at this special moment in time, let us dedicate ourselves to principles of freedom that imply as much responsibility and discipline as they do independence and choice.
America is still the light of the world, and it is fortunate that the Hillsdale Academy exists, if only to remind people of this important fact.
According to recent news reports about the economy, America appears to be doing better than ever before. The stock market is up, the deficit is down—prosperity seems to be everywhere. Morally and culturally, however, it is not an exaggeration to say that we are on the verge of bankruptcy. The fact is that over the last quarter century we have squandered our spiritual capital. When I was a small child, I learned the bedtime prayer, “Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the
Sports and education are inextricably linked in American society. Ideally, they complement one another. Intercollegiate athletics strive to instill specific moral qualities that are meant to be lifelong attributes: sportsmanship, leadership, optimism, self-discipline, loyalty, dedication, commitment, effort, sacrifice, and honor. For over a century and a half, athletics and academics have prospered together at Hillsdale College. Trustees, administrators, faculty, staff, and students have all come to appreciate the fact that intercollegiate athletics play a vital part in the overall mission of the College, which, since 1844, has been to provide such instruction “as will best develop the minds and improve
The purpose of art study is not to make artists of our young people; it is to help them become complete human beings.
“Politicians, properly observed, will often disappoint. Ideas, properly understood, seldom will.”
Our program is often characterized as “traditional,” and its devotion to time-honored understandings of what constitutes an educated person makes it so.
“In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.” —Louis Pasteur
No single factor in ancient culture displays this more than Greek tragedy, in which the fall of the exalted shatters any remnant of pride.
It isn’t easy these days for students to be decent and responsible, or to even agree upon what those words mean in our troubled modern world.
This confusing of the state of freedom with the state of nihilism is one which colleges must address when students enter the college doors
The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies uninhibited.
Since 1976, Milwaukee has been under court order to “racially balance” its public schools. Now, there are about one hundred thousand school-age children in this city. Approximately 70 percent are black or belong to other minorities.
Every business and charitable organization should start its own voucher program, for one or one thousand students, it doesn’t matter. What does matter is that they will have taken a step toward helping others as well as themselves.
More than half a century ago, America was in the middle of a wrenching depression. One-third of our nation’s wealth vanished in a matter of months.
A required course of studies—a core of learning—can ensure that students have opportunities to know the literature, philosophy, institutions, and art of our own and other cultures.
The American people want better education. They ought to be able to get it. But to do so they will have to sweep away whatever obstacles to excellence the educators have erected.
Education is always an instrument of social values and social policy, so that understanding the social context is important in understanding education.
But, on the Christian view, if it is not sanctity toward which we must move, on pain of our lives, then what is it?
Public interest in education—possibly because most families have contacts with educational institutions—is focused on opportunity and performance.
In contemplating the situation in higher education today, one is hard put to find a phraseology of sufficient force to reflect the disarray that has come.
When one looks at the changes in education over the century in the United States, one is led to the conclusion that there are three major areas of thrust.
There is a portion of the educational market that operates outside the government structure, free to rise or fall to satisfy market demands.
The American public, taken as a whole, has forgotten—or else never knew—that the ends of education are wisdom and virtue.
