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Politics + Other Mistakes
If you're an independent, you know that one of the advantages of not belonging to a political party is that you don't have to help choose the US Senate nominees for the Republicans and Democrats from a list of retreads, reactionaries, rejects, and rectums.

By: AL DIAMON | May 30, 2012

Got no plans

Politics + Other Mistakes
Welcome to the Channel 9 News Noodle. I'm Kootie McDoof.

By: AL DIAMON | May 23, 2012

Never mind the bollocks

Politics + Other Mistakes
In the wake of its chaotic state convention, the Maine Republican Party has cleverly positioned itself to appeal to a whole new segment of the public: Anarchists.

By: AL DIAMON | May 16, 2012

It just don’t pay

Politics + Other Mistakes
The only thing worse than taxes is tax breaks.

By: AL DIAMON | May 09, 2012

The price you pay

Politics + Other Mistakes
Debt is a fundamental part of American life. Car payments. Mortgages. Partially unpaid bills from irate Colombian hookers.

By: AL DIAMON | May 02, 2012

Ordinary people

Mark your ballots
Democracy is a messy system of government. Its basic tenets encourage the ignorant masses to react based on emotional appeals, thereby overwhelming the reasoned judgments of the educated elite.

By: AL DIAMON | April 25, 2012

No obligations

State laws
There are two types of people who routinely ignore state laws.

By: AL DIAMON | April 18, 2012

Strike down the heathen

“Sodomy-based marriage”
"There is no basis in nature for a right to sodomy," Michael Heath told the Associated Press in March.

By: AL DIAMON | April 11, 2012

Magic money

Clean Elections
It's fun to pretend there are supernatural solutions to our problems.

By: AL DIAMON | April 04, 2012

Glorification of failure

The Maine Democratic Party
The last time the Maine Democratic Party had a competitive candidate in a statewide political race was in 2006, when John Baldacci was re-elected governor. And that was hardly a landslide. Even with Baldacci's incumbency, he got barely 38 percent of the vote.

By: AL DIAMON | March 28, 2012

Bruce almighty

Will Bruce Poliquin make the ballot?
I'm writing this before it's officially decided whether State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin qualified as a US Senate candidate for the Republican primary in June.

By: AL DIAMON | March 21, 2012

Little king

Picking the next Senator
Picking the next US senator from Maine is a no-brainer, now that independent Angus King is officially in the race.

By: AL DIAMON | March 14, 2012

Democrats are gleeful over Mitt Romney’s bruising primary path, but Romney is still the fight Barack Obama doesn’t want

Bland ambition
Back in mid January, when the presidential primary season began and interest in the Republican candidates spread beyond the tight community of political junkies, Mitt Romney's previously untarnished reputation with the general public took a nasty turn.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | March 14, 2012

Here come the weak

Campaign advice
Watch your step. The floor might be slippery from all these drooling political consultants, an occupation noted for its lack of self-control.

By: AL DIAMON | March 07, 2012

Don't tell me what to do

Straw polls
Welcome to the 2012 Republican Party caucus for the town of East Abunni, Maine.

By: AL DIAMON | February 29, 2012

Fader in the middle

Political trivia
Time for political trivia. For each correct answer, treat yourself to a beer.

By: AL DIAMON | February 22, 2012

What they write about

The Maine Democratic Party's US Senate prospects
Thanks for coming to my power-point presentation.

By: AL DIAMON | February 15, 2012

Building the perfect beast

America Elects
There are a few acceptable reasons for keeping your identity a secret.

By: AL DIAMON | February 08, 2012

Magic power

Energy prices – and sources
A few months after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, my wife and I were wandering around the eastern part of that city and came upon a little antique shop, where the last vestiges of the old Communist ways were slowly being flushed out, much to the owner's dismay.

By: AL DIAMON | February 01, 2012