Category: D. Allan Kerr
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A Mookie Shade of Summer
By D. Allan Kerr When our government loses track of 1,500 immigrant children, TV stars go off on racist rants and investigators have to dig into political corruption, of course it makes sense to turn the conversation to Mookie Betts…
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All’s Fair When Saving One’s Ass
By D. Allan Kerr Let’s say I live in the town of Kittery (which is true), where I’ve engaged in a wide range of criminal behavior (which to the best of my knowledge is not true.) And let’s say I…
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Maine’s Golden Opportunity
By D. Allan Kerr Nancy Pelosi might want to hold off before dusting the Speaker of the House’s chair to reclaim her seat after the November elections. Democrats can’t simply count on disenfranchised Republicans not turning out at the polls…
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Hail the Appeaser in Chief
By D. Allan Kerr I tend to believe pundits are unfair to Neville Chamberlain, the great scapegoat of the 20th Century. Chamberlain, for those who aren’t history buffs, was the poor British prime minister who sought to avoid war with…
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USS Thresher Deserves National Salute
By D. Allan Kerr Fifty-five years ago, the crew of the Navy submarine USS Thresher expected to be home for Easter weekend after deep-dive tests off the New England coast. Tragically, they never made it back. On the morning…
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Let Your Voice Be Heard
By D. Allan Kerr Picture this: When police responded to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, they found the bodies of 15 first-graders and two staffers piled in and around the entrance of one class bathroom,…
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Heroes of the School Wars
By D. Allan Kerr Dave Sanders, Liviu Librescu and Victoria Soto are names we should all know. They should at least be as famous as Sully Sullenberger, the airline pilot who became a folk hero for safely landing a commercial…
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Why CAN’T We Be Tougher and Smarter?
By D. Allan Kerr Donald Trump is absolutely correct in his response to acts of mass murder – “We need to be tougher and smarter.” The problem is: this is his go-to phrase only when the killers have names which…
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Today’s GOP Could Learn from Maine’s Own Maggie
By D. Allan Kerr Courage pills appear to be in short supply in Washington D.C. these days, and I’m not sure why. Members of Congress feeling weak in the knees need only to look back at the history of their…
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Thank God We’re Rid of Jorge Garcia
By D. Allan Kerr America can sleep in peace this week, knowing Jorge Garcia is no longer in our midst. The 39-year-old illegal immigrant was shipped back home from Detroit on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Garcia was a serial…
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