A Midsummer Nightmare

 

By Jonathan Reisman

August rolled in, and although the garden looks good, I cannot say the same for Maine, the Republic, or freedom.

A midsummer nightmare

The garden

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A Way to Beat Those Pandemic Pounds!

 

Dora Anne Mills, 

MD, MPH, FAAP

When I open up social media these days, I often see references to “pandemic pounds” and “quarantine couch calories,” among photos of banana bread and homemade mac and cheese. They reassure me that I’m not the only one struggling to eat healthy and exercise safely these last few months! 

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Miracle at Philadelphia

 

Jonathan Reisman

Growing up and attending public schools in Philadelphia in the 1960s, I got an up close and personal view of the American founding, race relations, diversity and its discontents.  The Pledge of Allegiance’s promise of “liberty and justice for all” would probably be termed white supremacist systemic racism by today’s mostly peaceful protesters, but in Philadelphia I was taught America was founded in freedom in 1776, not slavery in 1619.

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Lockdown Lowdown

 

Jonathan Reisman

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See You in September?

 

Jonathan Reisman

This week marks the beginning of my 37th year at UMM and my 47th consecutive September on a New England college campus. The times, they are a-changing.

American higher education is on the cusp of a financial, cultural and political reckoning that will leave it smaller, poorer, less popular, less powerful and decidedly diminished. Those changes, as deserved as they may well be, will probably not be accompanied by any recognizable change in attitude, humility, leftist indoctrination practices or self-regard and esteem.

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School Choice

 

Jonathan Reisman

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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The Systemic Racism Racket Gets Trumped

 

Jonathan Reisman

The Systemic Racism Industry has had its sweet multimillion consulting racket exposed and trumped. The President has used his “pen and phone” to order the critical race theory hustle out of the federal bureaucracy. The shrieks and howls from the incredibly undiverse set of pricey diversity “consultants” kicked off the taxpayer dime can be heard in HR departments and Democratic covens across the country.

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The Coming Coup?

An Essay 

By Michael Anton

Democrats are laying the groundwork for revolution right in front of our eyes.

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Peace and the Resistance

 

By Jonathan Reisman

“If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”- Moshe Dayan

“You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it”- Benjamin Netanyahu

“It’s a distraction”- Nancy Pelosi

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No Justice, No Peace

Jonathan Reisman

In a shameless act of cultural appropriation, this week’s column title takes the Black Lives Matter/Antifa/ mostly peaceful protesters/Biden voters mantra “No Justice, No Peace” and applies it to the current contretemps roiling the nation, the likely replacement of the notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) with the notoriously “dogmatic” (at least according to California Senior Senator Diane Feinstein) Catholic mother of seven, Amy Coney Barrett (ACB).  

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