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Fishing Shack Nonprofit Head Apologizes for Calling Canadian Scavengers ‘Vandals’

Matthew McDonald

The head of a nonprofit organization in Lubec, Maine trying to recover the last smoked-herring shack in the United States from nearby Campobello Island in New Brunswick (where it got blown by a recent storm) is apologizing for referring to Canadians who have attacked the shed with chainsaws "vandals." Canadian authorities have been slow to allow the Maine group to get the shack.

Does Our Country Have To Be A Profanity-hole?
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Does Our Country Have To Be A Profanity-hole?

Matthew McDonald

As I write this my inbox is filled with email newsletters using in the subject line a vulgar word that refers to bodily waste. They come from mainstream news organizations, many of which are using the word in stories, columns, and even headlines. (If you missed it, the second half of the word is "hole." Figure out the rest for yourself.)

The justification for this is the supposedly horrible thing that President Donald Trump reportedly said during an apparently unrecorded discussion Thursday with other prominent politicians about certain nations of the world sending their citizens to this country.

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