Author: Robert "Bobby" Charles

Growing up in Maine, we know trust matters more than anything. We also tend to avoid hysteria – or always did. So, here is a dose of “calm” relating to the still active debate about the Trump White House and “Signal” app.First, “Signal” is an end-to-end encrypted app, almost impossible to break, used by many people who want to avoid overreach by the government, Tik-Tok, Google, or any other entity. I use it. Second, as a former Naval Intelligence Officer who held a TS/SCI clearance for a decade – Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information – allow an observation: Democrats are participating…

Politics is not a game, even if many “Progressive” Democrats think so. In Maine, one-party rule has distorted reality, as out-of-touch elites no longer care about the hardships they impose on average people. Mainers, like America in 2024, are tired of manipulation, misrepresentation, and untruth.Maine’s “Progressive” Democrat today represents the last stand of the lunatic fringe, and what happens, in fact, to a state that assumes the best, looks away, and wakes up to a nightmare.Half a dozen truths should be recalled by every single Mainer—every American—whether they vote conservative, traditional Democrat, or just take things as they come, comfortably…

Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams, was an insightful, “to the point” writer. Without her counsel, our second president would have stumbled, lost confidence and his way. Top of her list was faith, family – and education. We must hear her wisdom again, now.Wrote Abagail: “Learning is not obtained by chance. It must be sought … with ardor and diligence.” Ardor is, of course, enthusiasm, or passion, or love of a thing. Diligence is just plain hard work. The latest national – and Maine – education results show America’s students are learning neither “ardor”…

Madness comes in many forms. Maine seems to be ground zero for it. Despite historic support for mandatory minimum sentences for Class A and B felonies, Democrats aim to end mandatory minimums for murder, rape, drug trafficking, and gun felonies—madness. Democrats in Maine are pushing LD 268, a bill that—very simply—ends the certainty that felons will face time. Entitled “An Act to Restore Sentencing Discretion to the Judiciary by Removing Mandatory Minimum Sentences,” Democrats from Bath, Portland, Auburn, and Gorham would empower major criminals by ending mandatory sentencing. [RELATED: Maine Democrats Push Bill to Eliminate Mandatory Minimum Criminal Sentences]Ironic is…

Democrat-controlled states, from Maine to California, are becoming more extreme, not less. For the most part, they have learned nothing. From Title IX to higher taxes, they hurt their people. This just has to stop. Title IX provides an excellent example of Democratic extremism. On June 23, 1972, President Nixon signed Title IX, a civil rights law opening educational, sports, scholarship, and wider opportunities to girls and women. Why it took so long is another story, but suffice it to say, it was overdue. Prior to Title IX, discrimination against girls and women in education and elsewhere was defended on…

Robinhood’s merry band of men took from the rich and gave to the poor, any extra time spent on archery. Maine’s Democrats take from the poor and give to China – extra time just spinning. Seriously, Governor Mills and Augusta Democrats must think we are stupid, and just aren’t paying attention.Having increased and nearly doubled spending over the past seven years from $6.8 billion to $11.7 billion – squandering on what no one has on what no one wants, plus $15 billion in federal pandemic money – they are back like a bad penny that keeps coming back. Now they…

Maine’s Democrat Governor is, it seems, a demagogue. Why? Demagogues make dramatic, untrue statements for personal gain, knowing what they say is untrue. Gov. Mills is that person, raising money for a Senate bid by attacking Trump for defending the law, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and Maine girls. Is it not the height of cynicism, hypocrisy, and irony for a female governor, who herself benefited from Title IX protections, to strip Maine girls and women of those same protections? Mills started law school – with full Title IX protection – in 1973, the year after President…

Strangely, Maine’s Democrats are taking a victory lap on data showing 490 Mainers died of overdoses in 2024, down 18 percent from 2023, a reduction largely credited to the availability of the overdose reversal drug, Naloxone. Calling this progress is a misfire. Maine is actually in crisis. Augusta’s establishment seems to misunderstand what is happening. They’re not making progress, rather they are failing. We saw 10,000 overdoses last year, any of which could be fatal. While Naloxone reverses an overdose, it is not treatment. Maine has a “chronic shortage” of effective treatment, not just substituting one drug for another drug…

Democrats Are Wrong on Title IX – Girls Matter“Facts are stubborn things,” said Ronald Reagan, quoting his early predecessor John Adams. Maine Democrats and activists in the former Biden Administration are simply wrong about sex and gender. This is not a value statement. While the Bible and history corroborate facts, it is pure biology. When it was put into law, Title IX explicitly sought to end discrimination on the basis of sex, or gender, for educational programs receiving federal funding. It was intended to protect girls and women, not males who think they are women. Girls Matter. Before you click…

Maine’s education system – like that of much of the nation – is in a free-fall, maybe even has already crashed, and must be rebuilt. Serious studies confirm the state’s schools, like schools nationwide, are in extreme distress. In this grim scenario, Maine kids, parents, and teachers have been horribly betrayed. Start with the studies. One by the Maine Policy Institute, from mid-2024 entitled “The Decline of Maine K-12 Education” illustrates how Maine schools went from being some of the top-rated in the nation to the among the lowest. What it describes could be seen in Oregon, Maryland, or New…

Maine is emblematic of a phenomenon occurring nationwide. States controlled by one-party Democrat governments, intent on pushing radical agendas, are simply ignoring the majority. They think they have license. That is why populism, distrust of government, and anger are growing. Hundreds of bills introduced, many passed during that one State’s recent sessions, contradict the majority’s values as well as testimony and polling of Maine citizens. Democrats do not care. The state’s one-party legislature, governor, and attorney general act, as in other one-party states, like the majority is irrelevant. Once in power, they ignore The People, and focus instead on keeping power, big donors, political…

“Set ups” are not right. In Maine and the Nation, law abiding gun-owners – Republicans, Independents, and Democrats – are under attack, being legislatively “set up” for a 2nd Amendment takedown. How? In disguise, confiscation authority is being green-lighted as so-called “red flag laws.” [RELATED: Maine Democrats Sneak in Last-Minute Gun Grab Measure…] Take Maine as a leading example of how the anti-gun ownership lobby works, how they twist the discussion, ignore facts, and push the idea that what is patently bad, fundamentally unconstitutional, inexcusable, and dangerous, is somehow good. [RELATED: Troy Jackson Backs Gun Control After Gun Control Group…

Two amendments to Article III of the Wisconsin Constitution are being voted on this week. They are pivotal for Wisconsin, arguably the Nation. Why? Neither Wisconsin’s founders nor America’s ever wanted elections run by private companies, the process influenced or worse subcontracted to private partisans. Yet, without these amendments, wealthy partisans get to call the shots. By all accounts, from 2020 press releases and tax returns to later news accounts and investigators, America’s wealthy social media mogul Mark Zuckerburg punched $400 million into 49 states during the 2020 election cycle, cleverly in September that year, to help “manage” elections.  [RELATED:…

Among radical ideas destined to run aground, “hard rudder left,” are recyclable diapers, solar-, wind-, and Flintstone cars, snowplows pulled by with horses, and mandating electric vehicles in Maine – where logic and facts make electric vehicles a natural fail. No, Maine will not follow California. Thankfully, common sense still lives in places like Maine, and across rural America, despite people like Maine’s Secretary of State trying to cancel the GOP presidential candidate and a Democrat governor, Janet Mills, trying to fast-track illegal aliens, late-term abortions, transgender tourism, and electric snowplows. Last week, Maine’s top environmental regulator, the Board of…

Seldom in American history has a president so boldly insulted the American people, played demagogue, or taken us for fools – the way an audacious Joe Biden did in his beg-the-issues, bag-of-air State of the Union. Frankly, it was – the only word is mortifying. If you did not hear it, he began by comparing himself to FDR in 1941. A starker contrast is hard to imagine. FDR faced real war, with thousands of Americans and allies dead, while Biden failed to deter our enemies, hemorrhages credibility with inaction, condemned tens of thousands of US allies to death by Taliban torture,…

Today, we are all Laken Hope Riley. If the name does not move you, it should. We are losing young people at a record pace. Only in war do we lose more, maybe not then. Truth is, we are at war. Laken Hope Riley was a hopeful, believing, cheerful, smart American woman, 22, who wanted to be a nurse, to help others. She believed in the American dream, worked for it, supported by her family, faith, and friends – was killed by a criminal alien, one of eight million, none of whom should even be here. Laken’s story, in a way,…

Let me ask you, what do you think China would do if President Xi discovered thousands of stealth drones, quiet assassins, entering China, each able to kill multiple Chinese of military age, then discovered they were killing 100,000 Chinese kids annually? Shrug? China does that to us – with fentanyl.  Shrug? Fentanyl is China’s assassin in your community, the one you never see. It sneaks up, addicts the user, quickly kills, and checks off another life. Annually, in 2023, it killed 100,000 Americans, with total overdose deaths topping 112,000, real numbers north of that, due to unreported drugged driving, and other drug tiebacks. That…