This is a pretty interesting read. I love putting current events into historical context.
How the Tea Party Won the Deal
By Peter Beinart
The Daily Beast – 8 hrs ago
While the details …

The Maine Sunday Telegram really took a shot at Maine’s Governor Paul LePage today: “Our View: Gov. LePage acts like he’s in over his head“.
Key quotes are a-plenty, but here’s …

The lawsuit over the removed mural at the Maine Department of Labor’s headquarters begins: “Labor mural raises free speech issues.”
Apparently the judge, who coincidentally was appointed by GW Bush in …

The New York Times likes the whole “Tea Party governors are crazy” storyline. It may not be compelling journalism, but I bet it sells papers.
Looks like they just ran another …

I’m so sorry about this.
See, I don’t watch Jersey Shore and wouldn’t know “The Situation” if I fell over him, but this Paul LePage mural malarkey is almost as bad …

I don’t want to make “this all Paul LePage, all the time” but I have to share this.
Mount Holyoke College President Lynn Pasquerella wrote a letter to the New York …

So we’ve had Jon Stewart, Rachel Maddow and countless blogs chime in on Governor LePage’s decision to remove murals from the Department of Labor.
Let’s add the New York Times to …

Which of these is funnier?
“Gov. LePage Orders Little Girl’s Sandcastle Kicked In”
“LePage Orders Cancellation of Labor Day”

Interesting David Brooks column at the New York Times today: “The Modesty Manifesto“.
Key quote:
If Americans do, indeed, have a different and larger conception of the self than they did …

Interesting new bill proposed by Republican Senator Thomas Saviello: LD 607 (SP 187) “RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Require the Governor To Be Elected by …

I’m sure you saw that President Obama bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom yesterday, but a quote from this article really got to me: “Obama lauds Medal of Freedom recipients“.
“Generations …

Check out the new bill from Augusta: “An Act To Establish a National Rifle Association License Plate“.
This would be the first plate in Maine to give money to a private …

Maine’s Tea Partier-in-Chief, Paul LePage, has been in the news quite a bit lately; most recently he told off the NAACP the week before Martin Luther King Jr Day, calling …

Not to beat this to death, but the other day I quoted the Portland Press Herald who said that incoming Tea Party Governor Paul LePage thought that if 35 states …

I have to mention a quote in this Portland Press Herald article: “Incoming AG weighs fight over health reform.”
See, apparently the new Maine government is joining legal fight against the …

I haven’t talked much about my thoughts on the new Transportation Security Agency (TSA) screenings, but this Washington Post article pretty much sums it up: “Why the TSA pat-downs and …

Rosa Scarcelli, my initial gubernatorial candidate, takes Eliot Cutler to town in her recent Bangor Daily News article: “Open primaries in case of democracy.”
Attacks on the long tradition of early …

Eliot Cutler sinks a little lower in my esteem after this Wall Street Journal Opinion piece today: “Who Stole Election Day?”
Kind of sour grapes, especially after Down East confirmed Cutler …

Arrrrggghhh this is not cool.
I can’t believe this guy is our governor.

Check this out: “Cutler wins endorsement of ex-Gov. Angus King.”
“We need someone who can bring people together. It’s going to be almost impossible to get through what we are facing …