We needn’t look to Washington to see how how ugly, mean-spirited and destructive our politics have become. We can look to Jim Fossel’s column last Sunday. Fossel knows the Maine Republican Party lost everything in sight in the last election, but he says the Republican minority can still have an impact by what one commenting […]
Re: Kevin Benjamin’s recent letter (“Letter to the editor: ‘1984’ analogy better applied to Democrats,” Feb. 14): No, it applies more to Republicans, especially when it comes to George Orwell’s cardinal principle: truth. Republicans of all stripes make up stuff to suit their political purposes these days. It’s like Orwell said: “Political language … is […]