You could sing us the phone book and we would still love you.
But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.
Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.
While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.
In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.
Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Are men intimated by sexually confident women, you ask? I think men are intimated by any woman who says they are sexually confident, at no matter what age.
Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control.
Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to do with us. Why were we not building, without reference to the Soviet Union, a good society in our own countries? But no, we were all - in one way or another - obsessed with the bloody Soviet Union, which was a disaster. What people were supporting was failure. And continually justifying it.