Bricks and Mortars

By Lawrence Reichard

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  Two hours with Bent Urup

  By Lawrence Reichard - Oct 19
  On Sept. 25, I awoke in Odense, Denmark, home of famed Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen. I walked to the train station and took a ...
  
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  Guatemala's violence strikes home

  By Lawrence Reichard - Feb 16
  Before last week, I had been mugged a few times. But I had never been robbed at gunpoint. I was walking in the beautiful countryside outside ...
  
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  Down in the South Texas town of Laredo

  By Lawrence Reichard - Nov 16
  All the pre-election talk of undocumented migrants pouring over the border to vote for Hillary Clinton reminded me of a fun little adventure I ...
  
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  Witness to a bloodless coup

  By Lawrence Reichard - May 28
  I had never before seen such skinny legs. From ankle to calf they were no bigger around than broomsticks, and the calves weren't much better. The ...
  

• I. F. Stone was right

  By Lawrence Reichard - Jun 11
  In the immortal words of radical American journalist I. F. Stone (1907-1989), all governments lie. And governments lie the most when they're ...
  

• Jim Wright: 'I think I'm gonna hang up now.'

  By Lawrence Reichard - May 14
  Former U.S. Speaker of the House Jim Wright died May 6 in Fort Worth, Texas, at age 92, having previously survived 34 years in the U.S. House of ...
  

• Hey, buddy, wanna buy a used war?

  By Lawrence Reichard - Feb 19
  I was raised by two historians. My father had a Harvard Ph.D. in history and was a history professor, and my mother was ABD (all but dissertation) ...
  

• The Holy Grail of cheap gas

  By Lawrence Reichard - Jan 22
  As of this writing, gas is down to $2.08 per gallon in Belfast, and below $2 in southern Maine, and who knows, by the time you read these words it ...
  

• Send lawyers, guns and money: Part 2

  By Lawrence Reichard - Dec 25
  Columnist Lawrence Reichard is currently in Colombia. In Part 1 of "Send lawyers, guns and money" (Dec. 11), Reichard recounted the first part of ...
  

• War is peace: Three ignoble Nobels

  By Lawrence Reichard - Nov 27
  It's high time the Norwegian Nobel Committee cleaned up its act and put its house in order. Time is running short to right one of its most ...
  

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  A fading revolution?

  By Lawrence Reichard - Mar 02
  Three columns ago I said my next column would be on the current state of the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution. Then I got distracted. A cocked gun in ...
  
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  Democracy is dead! Long live democracy!

  By Lawrence Reichard - Jan 05
  “I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.” — Al Gore I have written about the Electoral College before, but some new aspects of it have ...
  
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  On the ropes in Orland

  By Lawrence Reichard - Jul 09
  I have worked at H.O.M.E. Co-op in Orland off and on for 35 years. It's on Route 1 at the top of the big hill after you cross the picturesque ...
  
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  Poliquin: Be rich, not sick

  By Lawrence Reichard - Jun 26
  Two weeks ago The Republican Journal ran, alongside my column, a guest column by first-term Second District Congressman Bruce Poliquin, R-Maine, ...
  

• Hillary the Invincible? Think again.

  By Lawrence Reichard - May 28
  The now two-horse race between Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic nomination, a race that began the day then-Sen. ...
  

• Obama firm in face of Boehner firmness

  By Lawrence Reichard - Mar 04
  The Associated Press reported this morning that White House and congressional negotiators met through the night last night in a successful effort ...
  

• BRICS, mortars and punishment as policy

  By Lawrence Reichard - Feb 05
  Last week former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned that Ukraine could become the scene of a full-blown war between Russia and the West. “I ...
  

• Mr. Obama, give Guantanamo back!

  By Lawrence Reichard - Jan 08
  On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan, standing in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, spoke the now famous words challenging the Soviet ...
  

• Send lawyers, guns and money

  By Lawrence Reichard - Dec 11
  I'm once again in Colombia, my old stomping grounds, and my home from 1978 to 1980. Many things have changed. The M-19 guerrilla movement has ...
  

• Requiem for democracy

  By Lawrence Reichard - Nov 13
  Now that the election night hangovers are all over, and all the political obituaries have been written, maybe this would be a good time to look at ...