I ORDERED a nice office chair online last week because I’m a writer — this is me, writing this — and I’ve written a truckload of stuff on an assortment of cranky kitchen chairs, some designed by federal agents to torture confessions out of suspects, and my lumbar region feels delicate, and w… Read more
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." Read more
THERE IS a real possibility that, this coming week, Joe Biden will be selecting the 47th president of the United States.
ON THURSDAY morning, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that the U.S. GDP had the biggest drop in a single quarter in U.S. history. From April through June, the economy contracted by 9.5 percent, with GDP falling at an annualized rate of 32.9 percent.
DENIAL IS not just a river in Egypt, as the ancient joke goes. It’s the Democrat/media/Left’s comprehensive response to the nationwide riots that rage on, seven weeks after the funeral of police-brutality victim George Floyd. His memory has been kidnapped by the most violent insurrectionists…
Moments after becoming president on August 9, 1974, Gerald Ford said, “Our long national nightmare is over.” Having served a quarter-century in Congress, he understood that presidents are to “take care” that laws produced by the first branch of government are “faithfully executed.” The natio…
THIS WEEKEND, American astronauts are scheduled to return to earth. Their trip to the space station was the first manned launch from the U.S. in 10 years.
I LOVE reading columns that snap and crackle and poke powerful people in the kisser and I am bored by columns like this one, which is about the goodness and generosity of life, but what can I say? When you’re busy doing things you love and you skip the news for a while, life can be beautiful…
WITH THE Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse under nightly siege from violent radicals, and Portland’s police hard-pressed to protect it, President Trump sent in federal agents to secure the building.
Editor’s Note: President Trump canceled the Florida convention on Thursday.
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S interview with Chris Wallace, which aired on “Fox News Sunday,” was remarkable in more ways than there is room to recount here.
I LAUGHED when I saw The Washington Post headline: “Minneapolis had progressive policies, but its economy still left black families behind.”
THIRTY-EIGHT percent of Americans surveyed believe the Prez is doing a good job with the pandemic, which is good news for folks offering Florida timeshares for August and telemarketers who’ll turn your songs into No. 1 hits if you give them your credit card number. Thirty-eight percent appro…
WE OFTEN hear that what this country needs is an honest conversation about race.
IS THE U.S., preoccupied with a pandemic and a depression that medical crisis created, prepared for a collision with China over Beijing’s claims to the rocks, reefs and resources of the South China Sea?
ON JULY 22, 1988, after the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, the party nominee, Gov. Michael Dukakis, enjoyed a 17-point lead over Vice President George W. Bush.
I AM a writing man, I got the sedentary blues. I need to take a walk soon as I find my shoes. I got a good woman and she gave me a talk. She said, “You’re going to need a walker if you don’t get out and walk.” I came to New York City to try to make my mark. Now I am an old man and I walk in …
BEFORE our Black Lives Matter moment, one had not thought of the NBC networks as shot through with “systemic racism.”
An item in the most recent New Hampshire Sunday News brought some welcome news. The current phase of the Interstate 93 widening project is finally coming to a close this fall. Read more
This afternoon the green flag will wave at New Hampshire Motor Speedway over NASCAR’s Foxwoods Resort Casino 301. Over the past several months the option of attending any in- person sporting events has been in the same category as going to the cinema: out of the question. Read more
Two judges were in the news last week. One made a decision on a ballot access issue. The other died after a long life of public service.
New Hampshire made some history recently when Governor Sununu signed HB 1182. This bill established a way for pilots to register and get license plates for “roadable aircraft.” These are “flying cars” in common parlance.
Grumbling has already begun regarding the large number of mail-in ballots we will see in this fall’s election. A certain high profile politician has even suggested delaying the November poll.
It seems fitting that Bob Bahre was laid to rest just days before the running of the next NASCAR race at the little Loudon track that Bahre turned into a huge national success.
If Manchester’s school district can’t figure out a way to hold a school board meeting where some members participate remotely, we can’t imagine how a “hybrid” school year is supposed to succeed.
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