YOU WOULD think by now that the conservatives and tax cutters in the New Hampshire Legislature would have earned the benefit of the doubt when it comes to fiscal policy.
POOR ILHAN OMAR has been denied a seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
DRIVING TO dinner on Sunday, I found myself suddenly surrounded by emergency vehicles. Fire trucks, police cars and ambulances seemed to converge from all directions. Had someone jumped off the bridge into the river?
THE NEXT presidential race is on.
Friday, February 03, 2023
IT WOULD be easier to be sanguine about the government’s coming dispersal of $52 billion in subsidies for semiconductor manufacturing and research if Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo did not celebrate it so lavishly. Her language suggests that what should be a narrow national security measur…
Wednesday, February 01, 2023
IMAGINE that you are the parent of a 15-year-old girl and discover that her school has been concealing her daytime behavior from you. Your daughter has joined a far-right Mormon spin-off cult, believes in plural marriage, has spoken of dropping out of school to get married, and declines to p…
I COULDN’T sleep last Saturday night due to anxiety caused by rewinding various lowlights of my long life that hit me like a brick and I lay in bed and watched the hours go by as I contemplated my imminent demise leaving my dependents impoverished and homeless so when the day dawned I put on…
IF YOU want to see a classic case of how President Joe Biden’s regulatory tendencies are strangling the U.S. economy and raising prices, look no further than the latest Justice Department efforts to kill an airline merger that is pro-consumer.
Sunday, January 29, 2023
THE FIRST question any reasonable person asks after a horrible crime is, “What could have been done to stop it?” Yet after every mass shooting, gun controllers suggest unworkable, unconstitutional, completely ineffectual ideas that target people who will never commit a crime.
ON THURSDAY, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed a letter, on behalf of 16 state attorneys general, to U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). The letter, which pertains to Biden administration policy on COVID-19, is both important on its own merits, insofar as what it urges the …
Friday, January 27, 2023
HAVE YOU heard? The world is about to end!
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
HOW MANY times have you heard President Joe Biden or Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) berate the Trump tax cuts as “a giveaway to the rich”?
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
THE APARTMENT across the hall from where we’re staying in Minneapolis is undergoing extensive renovation, walls being moved, floors torn up, and every day last week the noise from there was seismic, volcanic, like they were throwing pickup trucks into a giant grinder, and when I walked out o…
Sunday, January 22, 2023
POLITICIANS love to talk about the children. Innumerable government programs — some beneficial, too many counterproductive — have been instituted in the name of the children. Officials in Concord are spearheading two initiatives of the beneficial variety. Though they are unrelated, taken tog…
Sunday, February 05, 2023
Conway’s town meeting ought to be interesting this year. We would suggest attendees bring a cup of coffee and maybe a muffin, but that might get them arrested for electioneering. Read moreMuffin murals: Trouble brews in Conway
The Office of Child Advocate for New Hampshire is a much-needed position. Independent oversight of state and local agencies that deal with children is not just wise but vital. Read moreOCA’s mission: Its oversight is vital
Caveat emptor, let the buyer beware, is not exactly a new phrase but it is apparently foreign to today’s ticket-buying public, which needs the government to protect it from harm. Read moreBuyer beware: Tix fix a bad idea
Friday, February 03, 2023
New Hampshire’s housing shortage is real, to be sure, and attention is and must be paid to it. Some efforts, such as a state housing appeals board, are steps in the right direction. Others, however, go too far the wrong way and could be ruinous to our state’s character. Read moreZoning out: No more local control
We call BS on this Groundhog Day business. That’s BS as in Basically Suspicious. Read moreGroundhog BS: Throwing shade
Wednesday, February 01, 2023
Doing away with prison for women is the subject of a hearing scheduled in Concord today. The idea makes no more sense than does doing away with law enforcement because rogue cops exist. Read moreFree the women: ‘De-carcerate’ now
Friday, February 03, 2023
New Hampshire’s housing shortage is real, to be sure, and attention is and must be paid to it. Some efforts, such as a state housing appeals board, are steps in the right direction. Others, however, go too far the wrong way and could be ruinous to our state’s character.
We call BS on this Groundhog Day business. That’s BS as in Basically Suspicious.
Wednesday, February 01, 2023
Doing away with prison for women is the subject of a hearing scheduled in Concord today. The idea makes no more sense than does doing away with law enforcement because rogue cops exist.
Democrats to New Hampshire: Drop dead.
Sunday, January 29, 2023
It seems like just yesterday and it seems like forever since the amazing light of Christa McAuliffe left this earth. Wasn’t it just yesterday that all of New Hampshire and much of the nation packed into school auditoriums, office lunchrooms, and living rooms to watch the Concord teacher and …
- Letter: Cops need body cameras
- Letter: Obituary was very well done
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- Letter: NH customs issues usually relate to Canadians
- Letter: Sexism apparent in how MacKenzie Scott referenced
- Letter: Fix the problem, don't hide it
- Letter: Victoria, Manchester needs you
- Letter: Without 'life' the other rights don't matter
- Letter: Let's put loyalty of NH Democrats to the test
- Letter: Pro-life movement is not here to judge
Sunday, February 05, 2023
Friday, February 03, 2023
Friday, February 03, 2023
New Hampshire’s housing shortage is real, to be sure, and attention is and must be paid to it. Some efforts, such as a state housing appeals board, are steps in the right direction. Others, however, go too far the wrong way and could be ruinous to our state’s character.
We call BS on this Groundhog Day business. That’s BS as in Basically Suspicious.
Wednesday, February 01, 2023
Doing away with prison for women is the subject of a hearing scheduled in Concord today. The idea makes no more sense than does doing away with law enforcement because rogue cops exist.
Democrats to New Hampshire: Drop dead.
Sunday, January 29, 2023
It seems like just yesterday and it seems like forever since the amazing light of Christa McAuliffe left this earth. Wasn’t it just yesterday that all of New Hampshire and much of the nation packed into school auditoriums, office lunchrooms, and living rooms to watch the Concord teacher and …