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Andrew Cline has been editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader since October of 2001. His writing has appeared in more than 100 newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and National Review. You can read his blog
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Respecting the rights of all means that I respect your right not to eat meat or to eat meat from a supermarket and not to hunt. I expect the same respect.
Democrats' health bills depend on forcing individuals to buy insurance or face severe fines or imprisonment.
What started as a plan to find ways to cover people who don't have insurance transformed into thousands of pages of new regulations, mandates, prohibitions, oversight and general central control.
The people spoke, but what did they say? That is the question Democrats and Republicans were debating after this month's elections.
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New Hampshire doesn't have an official state fossil. I'm thinking of nominating myself.
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If you've ever wondered just how out of touch university faculty can get, look no further than the behavior of the University of New Hampshire's faculty union during its recent contract talks.
After shunning the Dalai Lama in September, President Obama must have shocked the Red Chinese when he spoke firmly for human rights.
New Hampshire's Senate Republicans have been vocal about the need to control state spending. But this was a surprise.
When the state attorney general fabricates an allegation to justify charging a person with criminal activity, everyone in the state ought to take note.
President Obama was supposed to be a dignified representative of America after that uncultured cowboy we had before. Yet apparently he has no one who can explain social protocols to him.
Defending the health benefits Manchester school board members receive, at-large member Kathleen Kelly inadvertently explained last week why the board shouldn't get them.
President Obama has revealed himself to be a shockingly incompetent amateur whose bumbling, ideological crusade to remake America in Europe's image risks colossal damage to both America's prosperity and national security.
Choice? Freedom? Liberty? Don't let Reps. Paul Hodes or Carol Shea-Porter get away with uttering support for those words ever again.
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When they get the chance they seem to have no trouble voting "yes" for increased spending.
From the opening musket fire of the American Revolution, New Hampshire men and women have never shied from service or sacrifice.
As we are learning with this new President, it's his way or ... his way.
As we all know, getting older isn't hard to do. Time continues on. In this poem, Deborah Warren of Massachusetts asks us to think about the life lived between our past and present selves, as indicated in the marginal comments of an old book. There's something beautiful about books allowing us to talk to who we once were, and this poem captures this beauty.
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