THE FALLOUT from Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster’s (NH-02) surprise retirement announcement last month continues and the primary contests for both parties are starting to take shape.
THERE’s NO record of Edmund Burke — the great Irish-born British statesman and father of modern conservatism — actually saying what is often attributed to him: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” But it does capture his worldview well enough.
CAPITALISM and racism go together? I hear it all the time.
SCHOOL CHOICE — the right of parents to get state subsidy of the private education of their kids — was not around back in my time, my dears. Rich people could send their heirs to Foxcroft to be taught table manners and a privileged accent and the rest of us got on the bus and went to P.S. 10…
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
IN 2024, foreign policy doesn’t pit Republicans against Democrats so much as it pits Republicans against Republicans and Democrats against Democrats.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
REPUBLICAN gubernatorial candidate Kelly Ayotte portrays herself as a strong former attorney general who will keep New Hampshire safe. However, her politically expedient behavior with respect to the recently revealed scandal involving her supporter, Republican state representative Jonathan S…
IF A BELLIGERENT state launched 185 explosive drones, 36 cruise missiles and 110 surface-to-surface missiles from three fronts against civilian targets within the United States, would President Joe Biden call it a “win”?
Friday, April 19, 2024
SOON THE government might shut down your car.
AFTER Iran’s massive drone and missile attack on Israel Saturday, President Biden reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “You got a win. Take the win.” Most of the weapons, the first Iran had ever fired on Israel from its own territory, were successfully intercepted.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
EIGHT a.m. is a fine time to go out for a walk in New York City because you get caught up in the happiness of little kids dressed up for school, holding a parent’s hand, jazzed by the hubbub of life around them, curious and eager, jabbering about everything they see on the way, completely in…
DONALD TRUMP is the furthest thing from a threat to democracy where abortion is concerned — and for activists on both sides, that’s alarming.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
LINCOLN businessman Vikram Mansharamani, a Republican, entered the race for Congress in New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District last week and wasted little time planting his flag on the illegal immigration issue.
THE CHANGING of the conservative mind in recent years could hardly be captured more pithily than in the headline of a recent op-ed: “Why I believe in industrial policy — done right.” So opined Sen. Marco Rubio for the Washington Post and, at greater length, for National Affairs.
Friday, April 12, 2024
THE LABOR DEPARTMENT just imposed 300 pages of new regulations to reclassify many individual contractors as payroll employees. CNBC claims this could help freelancers “recover lost wages.”
Saturday, April 27, 2024
New Hampshire has made the correct decision in rejecting an out-of-state company’s plan to sharply reduce logging in the vast Connecticut Lakes Headwaters Forest while the company cashes in on selling more “carbon credits” to other out-of-state companies. It was the right call. There could h… Read moreRight call for NH: Protecting forest, jobs
The Bay State has found at least one government official who appears willing to operate under its de facto name: Taxachusetts. Read moreGood fences: Mass. again shows its colors
The New Hampshire Right to Know Law protects your right to know what your state and local governments are doing. Combine that with the First Amendment guarantee of a free press and you get to learn about a rogue cop who fought all the way to the state Supreme Court to block access to his hor… Read moreMr. Speaker: Remove Rep. Stone from committees
Saturday, April 20, 2024
The bad news, that antisemitic incidents more than doubled in New Hampshire last year, rightly gets our attention. The good news, if there is any here, is that the doubling was from such a very low base. Just 14 incidents were reported in 2022, according to the New England Anti-Defamation League. Read moreAntisemitism: The numbers are sobering
Gov. Chris Sununu’s Donald Trump endorsement, back-handed as it was, is at once a great disappointment but not totally unexpected in a nation that now faces its worst presidential choice in modern times. Or should we say the end times? Read moreSilence, Sununu: Profile in discouragement
There’s a $306 million building plan to improve Manchester’s schools, but just two weeks ago we learned that number assumed city departments would waive a myriad of fees and permits and that if these were not waived that the difference would be cut out of what was planned for the kiddos. Read more1% kudzu: Schools error spotlights fees
Saturday, April 20, 2024
The bad news, that antisemitic incidents more than doubled in New Hampshire last year, rightly gets our attention. The good news, if there is any here, is that the doubling was from such a very low base. Just 14 incidents were reported in 2022, according to the New England Anti-Defamation League.
Gov. Chris Sununu’s Donald Trump endorsement, back-handed as it was, is at once a great disappointment but not totally unexpected in a nation that now faces its worst presidential choice in modern times. Or should we say the end times?
There’s a $306 million building plan to improve Manchester’s schools, but just two weeks ago we learned that number assumed city departments would waive a myriad of fees and permits and that if these were not waived that the difference would be cut out of what was planned for the kiddos.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
In its recent “American Masters” program on William F. Buckley Jr., we expected PBS to take a hatchet to that important American conservative. We weren’t disappointed.
New Hampshire legislators are right to move forward with bills protecting young female athletes from being physically injured by boys who want to be girls.
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Saturday, April 20, 2024
The bad news, that antisemitic incidents more than doubled in New Hampshire last year, rightly gets our attention. The good news, if there is any here, is that the doubling was from such a very low base. Just 14 incidents were reported in 2022, according to the New England Anti-Defamation League.
Gov. Chris Sununu’s Donald Trump endorsement, back-handed as it was, is at once a great disappointment but not totally unexpected in a nation that now faces its worst presidential choice in modern times. Or should we say the end times?
There’s a $306 million building plan to improve Manchester’s schools, but just two weeks ago we learned that number assumed city departments would waive a myriad of fees and permits and that if these were not waived that the difference would be cut out of what was planned for the kiddos.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
In its recent “American Masters” program on William F. Buckley Jr., we expected PBS to take a hatchet to that important American conservative. We weren’t disappointed.
New Hampshire legislators are right to move forward with bills protecting young female athletes from being physically injured by boys who want to be girls.
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