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(Video at link) John Cardillo @johncardillo Video sent to me by a source in Maine. Useless guy in the green shirt is far left principal Matt Haney of Mount Desert Island HS in Bar Harbor (@MDItrojans ). Haney stood by and did nothing here as a biological male trans student viciously beat an actual female student. My sources tell me that Haney then sent an email ordering students to delete this video. In addition to allowing girls to be beaten by men, Haney also violates his students First Amendment rights.

Rangers issue a handful of citations over the weekend for alleged trespassing. The government shutdown closed the national park Oct. 1. For months, Julie and Eugene Gillies of South Portland planned to celebrate their wedding anniversary in Bar Harbor. They weren’t about to let a political fight in Congress get in the way of their plans to see Acadia National Park, which they visited on their honeymoon 34 years ago. Riding on small motor scooters beneath a bright blue sky Sunday morning, the couple went around the barricades and past the sign declaring the park closed and joined what they...

This week, the Globe and Mail asked General Lewis McKenzie (Retired) to write the obituary of American diplomat Richard Holbrooke. It was a good idea. The two men had crossed paths more than once on the global stage of the Great Game. McKenzie declined. Holbrooke had just died and the general knew that what he had to say would hardly produce the standard panegyric. When I caught up with McKenzie, he was shoveling snow after a spell away from home. I asked for an interview and to my surprise, he agreed. “I’m just going to tell you what I thought...