D. Allan Kerr

1 week ago | fosters.com | D. Allan Kerr

D. Allan KerrColumnistAs the brilliant comedian Stephen Colbert once said regarding the toughness of Mainers, “these are people whose idea of a beach is a collection of jagged rocks near freezing water!”To the best of my knowledge, we’re the only state who offers a license plate featuring a dead critter (lobsters are typically bright red only after they’ve been boiled alive).

1 week ago | seacoastonline.com | D. Allan Kerr

D. Allan KerrColumnistAs the brilliant comedian Stephen Colbert once said regarding the toughness of Mainers, “these are people whose idea of a beach is a collection of jagged rocks near freezing water!”To the best of my knowledge, we’re the only state who offers a license plate featuring a dead critter (lobsters are typically bright red only after they’ve been boiled alive).

2 weeks ago | seacoastonline.com | D. Allan Kerr

“Insanity is not a strategy.”Credit CNBC’s senior economics reporter Steve Liesman for last month so accurately summing up Donald Trump’s bizarre campaign to blackmail Canada into surrendering its sovereignty as an independent country. Trump has openly and repeatedly acknowledged the goal of his surreal trade war with Canada is to coerce our neighbor into becoming America’s 51st state. This in itself isn’t that shocking, because I’ve long believed the guy is a deranged loon.

1 month ago | seacoastonline.com | D. Allan Kerr

D. Allan KerrColumnistWhen Donald J. Trump claimed during the 2024 presidential campaign he could quickly end the war in Ukraine, I had no doubt he meant he was ready to surrender that war-torn country to the interests of Vladimir Putin. But based on recent events, things look even worse than expected. Now Trump apparently not only wants to cede victory to Russia, he wants America to share in the spoils of Putin’s murderous invasion. More: Trump is withholding US intelligence from Ukraine.

1 month ago | seacoastonline.com | D. Allan Kerr

Charles Q. Brown is a real-life Maverick, the iconic fighter pilot portrayed by Tom Cruise in the mega-popular “Top Gun” movies. Brown not only graduated as a young aviator from the Air Force Weapons School – the branch’s equivalent of the Navy’s Top Gun program – he later returned as an F-16 Fighting Falcon instructor. Then, in 2005, he was assigned to a two-year stint as commandant of the Weapons School, located at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.