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David Harsanyi: Get the IRS out of the speech business altogether

READER COMMENTS: 9

Why does the IRS have the power it has over speech?

Another View -- Ryan Gallagher: The U.S. government spies on reporters all too frequently

READER COMMENTS: 4

The recent case with the AP is not the first time U.S. authorities have adopted draconian surveillance tactics to uncover journalists’ confidential sources.

John Stossel: Who has true grit anymore?

READER COMMENTS: 0

Do your kids have that much grit today? I doubt it. Parents now try to protect kids from all danger. In New York City, some won’t let teenagers go to school by themselves.

Another View: New Hampshire would take a risky bet on casinos

READER COMMENTS: 6

Consider the costs of gambling.

Ramesh Ponnuru: In flextime fight, liberals play to their stereotype

READER COMMENTS: 0

Flextime rules need to be modernized.

Jonah Goldberg: Benghazi's smoking guns

READER COMMENTS: 1

On Benghazi, there is a "there there."

Charles Arlinghaus: Screeching lies does not count as debate

READER COMMENTS: 2

Screaming and misleading is the hallmark of too much of today's politics.

Another View: Nashua does need to conduct its own review of commuter rail

READER COMMENTS: 1

Why Nashua should examine commuter rail on its own.

George Will: Forgetting the lessons of Watergate

READER COMMENTS: 0

Watergate and Obama.

Athletes and PE: Give them credit for sports

READER COMMENTS: 7

A young woman whose name most Manchester students have never heard is on the verge of changing the city’s health curriculum for the better.

The EPA's friend: It has a loyal ally in Shea-Porter

READER COMMENTS: 15

Carol Shea-Porter confirms that she's on Washington's side.

The cupcake police: Stop! In the name of lard!

READER COMMENTS: 15

City school board turns into the food police.

Leading vs. following: Ayotte, Shaheen and the polls

READER COMMENTS: 23

Do-nothing Shaheen vs. Energetic Ayotte.

Page One Editorial: Obama is right

READER COMMENTS: 27

President Obama is right about one thing. The Benghazi affair is about politics.

Taxed tips: Another NH revenue grab

READER COMMENTS: 9

Since when do businesses owe taxes for wages they don't pay?

Gosnell and NH: The horror of late-term abortion

READER COMMENTS: 8

What Gosnell's murders mean.

Shameful: Obama's Benghazi dishonesty

READER COMMENTS: 29

President Obama took the low road on Monday and tried to use U.S. diplomats serving overseas as human shields in what is becoming an intense barrage of questions about how his administration handled...

Bridging the night: Bright ideas in Portsmouth

READER COMMENTS: 0

Drive I-93 to or from Boston at night, and one of the most stunning sights is the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, flashed in bright blue by electric lights blazing below. Portsmouth's...

Hassan’s stunt: Northern Pass and priorities

READER COMMENTS: 15

Last week Gov. Maggie Hassan engaged in a publicity stunt disguised as an effort to stand up for New Hampshire. It failed.

Student IDs: Not this again

READER COMMENTS: 9

Student IDs should be accepted at the polls.

Scandalous: Benghazi, the IRS and 2012

READER COMMENTS: 42

Last week was stunningly bad for the Obama administration. Were this a Republican President, demands for hearings and investigations (if not impeachment) would be on the lips of not only the far-left...

Carbon fantasy: Don't hike the RGGI tax

READER COMMENTS: 7

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) has been busy raising your electric utility rates since 2008, in pursuit of a flawed goal that already has been reached naturally in the marketplace.

It is Mother's Day: Hail the hand that rocks the cradle

READER COMMENTS: 2

Today is Mother's Day, and there is not man, boy, nor girl who doesn't owe their mom eternal thanks for bringing them into the world.

Costs and benefits: Manchester leaves the BIA

READER COMMENTS: 1

Manchester has become an unusual city lately in that its public officials are increasingly dividing themselves into two camps: Those who want to rethink the way government does business so it can be...

Caution first: Nashua needs no rail study yet

READER COMMENTS: 26

Nashua aldermen would waste taxpayer money if they spent any of it studying commuter rail before the state finishes its own $3.6 million study.

NH's revenue dip: No cause for alarm

READER COMMENTS: 8

There would be no chance for casino gambling in New Hampshire were it not for a single idea: There are no circumstances in which the size, scope or vigor of government may be allowed to shrink.