IN 1980, because I was an idealistic conservative eager to do my bit for democracy, I volunteered for my local Republican Party as a poll watcher. When polls closed, election officials asked us to gather around as they opened the backs of the machines one by one and tallied the votes. We cou…
SEN. TED CRUZ of Texas said something interesting while campaigning for Dave McCormick, one of the contenders for the GOP nomination to replace departing Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
THERE IS A BUNNY in the schoolyard of New Hampshire public schools. Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut.
THE PRICE of gas keeps rising.
STORYTELLING IS an art of necessity that you learn when you are young and come home rather late from lying in the grass with Corinne in her backyard talking and holding her hand, your head on her shoulder, observing the slight rise of her breasts as she breathes, and your mother is at the do…
THE VITAL MISSION of the Republican-Right in November 2022 and ‘24 should be to demolish the Democrat Party and relegate it to the Smithsonian, amid the Whig and Know Nothing parties.
THE WHOLE MEDIA fact-check phenomenon officially blew past its sell-by date in January 2019 when the Washington Post dunked on then-President Donald Trump’s claim that the burgers he served the national champion Clemson Tigers were “piled up a mile high.”
IN THE STORM that erupted over the leaked draft opinion of Justice Samuel Alito, which would overturn Roe v. Wade, a secondary alarm has arisen among our elites.
ACTIVISTS HAVE convinced Americans that “organic” food is better — healthier, better-tasting, life-extending.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN’S bad-idea factory just belched out a doozy: The Disinformation Governance Board rolled off the assembly line to the sound of shrieks and Klaxons — and deservedly so. The last thing American citizens need is a taxpayer-funded thought-police bureau that monitors public utt…
CHRIS SUNUNU is spending a lot of time calling himself a “pro-choice” governor.
THE SUPREME COURT is currently surrounded by crowd-control barricades after the leak of a draft decision in the Dobbs case. The plaza was clear, however, on April 22, Earth Day, when Wynn Bruce of Boulder, Colorado, set himself aflame to protest climate change.
“WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE between a hockey mom and a pit bull?” the president of the United States asked 10 years ago at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. “A pit bull is delicious.”
DID YOU KNOW that in some states, if you miss one tax payment, local politicians will take your home, sell it and keep all the profits?
The American Red Cross needs to step up and let Eliot Webster donate blood. We suspect that is the conclusion of pretty much anyone who read City Matters columnist Mark Hayward’s piece in our Monday edition. Read more
The American Red Cross needs to step up and let Eliot Webster donate blood. We suspect that is the conclusion of pretty much anyone who read City Matters columnist Mark Hayward’s piece in our Monday edition.
We know that people interested in disability rights were eager to read Mark Hayward’s column (see related editorial). We know this because several of them inquired as to how they might “get around” the UnionLeader.com paywall.
For most Granite Staters, issues regarding landfills are out of sight and thus out of mind. But if you live near Forest Lake in Dalton or Whitefield, or you like to hike along or sit beside the Ammonoosuc River in Bethlehem, the siting or expansion of a landfill nearby tends to concentrate t…
The American Red Cross needs to step up and let Eliot Webster donate blood. We suspect that is the conclusion of pretty much anyone who read City Matters columnist Mark Hayward’s piece in our Monday edition.
We know that people interested in disability rights were eager to read Mark Hayward’s column (see related editorial). We know this because several of them inquired as to how they might “get around” the UnionLeader.com paywall.
For most Granite Staters, issues regarding landfills are out of sight and thus out of mind. But if you live near Forest Lake in Dalton or Whitefield, or you like to hike along or sit beside the Ammonoosuc River in Bethlehem, the siting or expansion of a landfill nearby tends to concentrate t…
