The popularity in keeping and breeding birds is rising rapidly in the UK and we are one of the main players in the bird trade in Europe,

JFK had a way of grabbing grandeur from mishap.

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation.

Retreat is brave when you steal a great prize from your enemy's hands.

Given the fact that Maine has raised its minimum wage each year for the last five years, that our minimum wage is currently $1.35 above the federal minimum wage and that Maine experienced a net loss of 600 jobs in 2005, one would wonder how it could possibly be true that raising the minimum wage again is going to improve our economy.