Sat, Jan 23
The New Hampshire Gazette
2016—“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” says the Republican nominee in Sioux City, Iowa. 2001—The LA Times reports that “W” keys are missing from White House computers. It’s not true. 2000—Campaigning for President in Salem, N.H., John McCain tells reporters, “I would never do this again.” 1986—After getting an FOIA request from the son of...
January 23rd 2021, 12:09 pm
Fri, Jan 22
The New Hampshire Gazette
2008—The Center for Public Integrity documents 935 instances of “orchestrated deception” leading up to the Iraq War by President George W.[MD] Bush and seven top officials. 1997—Lottie Williams, walking in a Tulsa park, is hit on the shoulder by a small falling chunk of a Delta rocket. 1987—Pennsylvania Treasurer Budd Dwyer, charged with fraud, blows his brains out on live TV.
January 22nd 2021, 12:52 am
Thurs, Jan 21
The New Hampshire Gazette
2001—With George W.[MD] Bush duly sworn in, Paul Wolfowitz, Ahmad Chalaby, Doug Feith and other neocons meet at Richard Perle’s home to discuss regime change in Iraq. 2001—Ignoring the jeers of 20,000 demonstrators, the New York Times “reports” George W.[MD] Bush may usher in a “new era of … social justice.” 1997—Newt Gingrich becomes the first Speaker of the House to be disciplined for unethical...
January 21st 2021, 8:06 pm
Sun, Jan 17
The New Hampshire Gazette
2014—NRA Board Member Ted Nugent, on TV, calls President Obama a “mongrel,” and says liberals should be prosecuted for treason. 2003—George W.[MD] Bush tells wounded troops at Walter Reed we “must provide the best care” for veterans the same day the VA cuts off health care for 164,000 veterans. 2003—Gertrude Janeway, the last known widow of a Union Civil War veteran, dies at 93. When they married...
January 21st 2021, 7:48 pm
Mon, Jan 18
The New Hampshire Gazette
2018—Alleged President Donnie Trump tells the Pentagon he wants a parade just like Emmanuel Macron’s. 1990—Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is busted in a drug sting. 1983— Taking time out from dissing gays in the Dartmouth Review, Laura Ingraham pleads nolo to shoplifting. 1969—Peace talks begin in Paris between U.S. and Vietnam. 1968—At the White House, Eartha Kitt has the gall to speak her...
January 21st 2021, 7:48 pm
Wed, Jan 20
The New Hampshire Gazette
2017—After D.J. Trump gives his “American Carnage” speech, George W.[MD] Bush says to Hillary Clinton, “Well, that was some weird shit.” 2009—“If I ever run for President,” says Donald Trump, “please shoot me.” 2009—The GOP’s top Members of Congress gather to plot against the newly-inaugurated President. 2009—Swearing in President Obama off the top of his head, Chief Justice John Roberts blows his...
January 21st 2021, 7:48 pm
Tues, Jan 19
The New Hampshire Gazette
2004—Weeks after telling Chris Matthews, “we’re going to break up the giant media enterprises,” Howard Dean addresses a screaming crowd in Iowa. Video techs create a clip using sound from his mike only, which makes him sound unhinged. It is aired 633 times over the next four days. 2001—On his last full day in office, Bill Clinton admits he perjured himself when he denied having sex with “that...
January 21st 2021, 7:48 pm
Insurrection: Are We Really Surprised?
The New Hampshire Gazette
by William Ehrhart Let’s review the facts. Our 45 th President openly bragged about grabbing women by their genitals and declared that he could murder someone in broad daylight in Manhattan without consequences. He has paid hush money to prostitutes he was “screwing” (please substitute the F-bomb) even as his third wife was nursing their newborn child. Our 45 th President has declared that he and...
January 18th 2021, 10:42 am
Sat, Jan 16
The New Hampshire Gazette
2018—White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson claims Donald Trump a) passed a cognitive test, and b) might live to be 200 if he had a healthier diet. 2014—Unable to acquire their usual poison, Ohio tries a new drug combo. A witness called watching Dennis McGuire gasp and snort for 15 minutes “ghastly.” 1986—The Department of Energy announces a seven-year search for a nuclear waste dump site.
January 16th 2021, 12:39 am
An Open Letter to Senator Susan Collins
The New Hampshire Gazette
Senator Susan Collins: I join millions of New Englanders and hundreds of thousands of your Maine constituents in calling on you to demand the removal of President Donald Trump by the provisions of the Twenty-fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This man is guilty of sedition, pathological dishonesty, hate speech and insurrection against the United States government and his people.
January 15th 2021, 5:21 pm
No Respect for War Crimes Don’t Fear Change, Embrace It
The New Hampshire Gazette
To the Editor: Those of us who watched the invasion of our nation’s Capitol were horrified, but many commentators have reported it was shocking but not surprising. Many who watched Donald Trump campaign and “govern” didn’t have to be warned that something like this might happen. I have followed the growth of fascism in other countries since my pre-teen years. Political change doesn’t happen...
January 15th 2021, 5:21 pm
Timeless truths for trying times
The New Hampshire Gazette
What’s wrong with people? Has the savagery, selfishness, and raw, animal hatred within the human species finally come out of the darkness to devour our society?! Fanatics in MAGA caps rabidly cheering a tyrannical, lying, insane president. Gangs of “Proud Boys” strutting around in militia costumes beating protesters whose politics they dislike. Wackadoodle extremists who advocate violence by...
January 15th 2021, 5:21 pm
Thomas J. McIntyre, Senator from New Hampshire, on the Origins of Right Wing Lunacy
The New Hampshire Gazette
[Thomas J. McIntyre, of Laconia, represented New Hampshire in the U.S. Senate from November 7, 1962 until January 3, 1979. In March of 1978, after addressing the Senate regarding the Panama Canal Treaties, McIntyre spoke of an ominous political trend. – The Ed.] I want to express myself on the way the issue of the canal treaties has been politicized, and I will do so with no little anger and...
January 15th 2021, 5:21 pm
The Other Phone Call
The New Hampshire Gazette
To the Editor: Call it treason; call it Sedition; call it illegal (a breaking of laws); call it an Impeachable Offense…but don’t call it “just Trump being Trump”! The widely-publicized extortion call President Trump made to Georgia’s Secretary of State and other Georgia election officials (his 19th attempt to reach and threaten them to “find 11,780 votes” to overturn the election) was/
January 15th 2021, 5:21 pm
Healing Our Country
The New Hampshire Gazette
To the Editor: The attack on the U.S. Capitol yesterday was a brazen attempt to prevent Congress from certifying the presidential election results and to overthrow the will of the American people. It was an assault on far more than the U.S. House and Senate: it threatened the very foundation of our republic. We’re all shaken by this violent reminder of our broken politics and how urgently we need...
January 15th 2021, 5:21 pm
Covid shows, once more, who’s excluded from the American Dream
The New Hampshire Gazette
The media and disease experts tell us we must take personal responsibility to avoid Covid-19! Gov. Sununu, to no one’s surprise, has taken the same hands-off approach, choosing to treat the pandemic like we do other social ills, like poverty or homelessness, exemplifying our state motto: “Live Free or Die.” Indeed, some individual behavior is unconscionable, like folks refusing to wear masks and...
January 15th 2021, 5:21 pm
An Unexpected Inevitability
The New Hampshire Gazette
People used to expect that sooner or later, chickens would come home to roost. Recently studies have shown, however, that if you leave Republicans in charge too long, chickens mutate into vultures. After a prolonged period of uncertainty—the likes of which have not been seen since the ignominious end of Reconstruction—the basic elements of our immediate future finally seem clear: the incumbent...
January 15th 2021, 5:21 pm
How do you spell “Reichstag” in American?
The New Hampshire Gazette
The day before MAGA Insurrectionists bashed their way into the Capitol building—murdering a cop in the process—a curious posting appeared on the website of their Führer, whitehouse.gov: “Antifa activists have brutally attacked our law-abiding friends, neighbors, and business owners, and destroyed historic landmarks that our communities have cherished for decades. This violence and lawlessness has...
January 15th 2021, 5:21 pm
Fri, Jan 15
The New Hampshire Gazette
1992—George H.[H.]W. Bush, in N.H. for votes, says “[W]e are blessed. So don’t feel sorry for … don’t cry for me, Argentina.” 1989—On “Larry King Live,” guest Donald Trump asks his host, “Do you mind if I sit back a little bit? Because your breath is very bad.” 1989—The Gipper, on MLK Day, says some civil rights leaders are “doing very well…keeping alive the feeling that they’re victims of...
January 15th 2021, 12:10 am
Thurs, Jan 14
The New Hampshire Gazette
2000—“This is still a dangerous world…of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses,” warns George W.[MD] Bush. 1969—After warnings from enlisted men aboard the nuke-powered U.S.S. Enterprise go unheeded, the exhaust of a flight deck tractor cooks off a Zuni rocket. It hits an F-4’s fuel tank, causing a fire which detonates 4.5 tons of bombs. The whole farrago kills 27, injures 85...
January 14th 2021, 1:13 am
Wed, Jan 13
The New Hampshire Gazette
2018—Hawaiian authorities issue an alert: “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND … SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” A retraction comes 38 minutes later. 2017—N.H. State Rep. Carolyn Halstead [R-Milford] drops a loaded handgun on the floor during a packed public hearing at the State House. 1987—Lee Atwater admits the Reagan anti-drug campaign was “the epitome of the fad issue...
January 13th 2021, 12:02 am
Tues, Jan 12
The New Hampshire Gazette
1991—Congress authorizes the first Bush vs. Hussein War. 1984—Reagan Deputy Secretary of Defense W. Paul Thayer resigns after being charged with insider trading. He ends up in the can. 1971—Rev. Philip Berrigan is indicted for conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and bomb federal buildings. 1968—Lima Site 85, a tiny USAF navigational facility on a remote mountaintop in Laos, is rocketed, bombed...
January 12th 2021, 12:05 am
Mon, Jan 11
The New Hampshire Gazette
2018—Trump’s flunkies say they’ll deny Medicaid to the unemployed. 2008—“There will be a signed peace treaty [between Israel and the Palestinians] by the time I leave office,” says George W.[MD] Bush. 2003—“You can count on this,” Donald Rumsfeld tells Saudi Prince Bandar, showing plans for the Iraq War. “This is going to happen.” 2002—Joe Foss, 86, ex-Governor of South Dakota, is detained at a...
January 11th 2021, 12:09 am
Sun, Jan 10
The New Hampshire Gazette
2017—CNN reports on the Steele dossier; Buzzfeed publishes it. 2002—George W.[MD] Bush denies ever meeting Enron CEO Ken Lay, his largest campaign donor. 1992—A busted shipping container releases 28,000 floating toy animals in the mid-Pacific, which are then tracked by oceanographers; the gripping tale is told in Moby Duck. 1984—Responders to a false alarm about an accidental missile launch at...
January 10th 2021, 3:47 am
Sat, Jan 9
The New Hampshire Gazette
2002—Future A.G. Al Gonzales writes that parts of the Geneva Conventions are “obsolete” and “quaint.” 1980—Sixty-three participants in the 1979 seizure of the Grand Mosque at Mecca are beheaded with swords in the public squares of eight Saudi cities. 1967—Calculations show ARVN desertions at 5.7 x the rate of the NVA. 1964—Panama suspends relations with the U.S. after U.S. troops kill 21 anti...
January 9th 2021, 1:28 am
Fri, Jan 8
The New Hampshire Gazette
2020—Reacting to the U.S. drone-strike assassination of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, Iran fires missiles at bases in Iraq; 64 U.S. troops suffer traumatic brain injuries. Trump denies any were injured. 2007—The U.S.S. Newport News, submerged, collides with a Japanese oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz. 2005—The U.S.S. San Francisco, submerged, collides at flank [top] speed with...
January 8th 2021, 12:08 am
Thurs, Jan 7
The New Hampshire Gazette
2015—Two brothers, Wahhabi extremists, kill 12 and wound 11 at Charlie Hebdo’s offices in Paris. 1999—The Senate tries Bill Clinton for lying about canoodling with a young intern. His prosecutor: Rep. (and adulterer) Henry Hyde [R-Ill]. 1998—The Washington Post reports that George Herbert [Hoover] Walker Bush lied: he did attend meetings about arms sales to Iran. 1980—San Franciscans hold a grand...
January 7th 2021, 12:11 am
Wed, Jan 6
The New Hampshire Gazette
2018—Pres. Donald J. Trump asserts that he is a “very stable genius.” 2006—George W.[MD] Bush OKs $20 million for a celebration of “success” in Iraq and Afghanistan. 2005—A switching error causes a 2:40 a.m. train wreck in Graniteville, S.C.; 60 tons of chlorine gas escape, killing nine immediately and one months later. 1986—One person dies and 100 are injured in an accident at Kerr-McGee’s...
January 6th 2021, 12:13 am
Tues, Jan 5
The New Hampshire Gazette
2011—Shortly after he’s sworn in, Rep. Frank Guinta [R-N.H.] assures David Koch that he’ll attend a party being held for new employees Republican Congressmen. 1970—With no word from them since Xmas, Kenneth Yablonski goes to Clarkesville, Pa. and finds his dad, UMW presidential challenger Joseph “Jock” Yablonski, his mom, and his sister, murdered in their sleep five days earlier on orders of...
January 5th 2021, 12:17 am
Mon, Jan 4
The New Hampshire Gazette
1971—George Mellendorf, in Vietnam, mails a letter to the White House complaining of slow mail delivery. His answer arrives in 1978. 1965—Having forced UC Berkeley Regents to drop their ban on political speech, the Free Speech Movement holds a rally that’s legal for a change. 1960—During a Minimum Interval Takeoff at Pease AFB, the second of three B-47s crashes and burns; four crewmen die.
January 4th 2021, 12:08 am
Sun, Jan 3
The New Hampshire Gazette
2006—Hotshot Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleads guilty to three felony counts for defrauding Indian tribes and bribing officials. 1967—Jack Ruby conveniently dies in prison while awaiting retrial. 1966—Ronald Reagan announces for Governorship of California, claiming it leads in bankruptcies and has 40% higher unemployment than the rest of the country, neither of which is true.
January 3rd 2021, 12:10 am
Sat, Jan 2
The New Hampshire Gazette
1996—At Bill Clinton’s invitation, Monica Lewinsky drops by the Oval Office. Sequestered in the bathroom, they violate his marriage vows. 1972—During a one-hour interview on CBS, Richard Nixon tells Dan Rather that the bombing in Southeast Asia had been“very, very effective.” Next day in a note to Hank Kissinger, he tells the truth: “The result = zilch.” 1970—The Supreme Court nixes Gen.
January 2nd 2021, 12:08 am
End Corporate Rule. Legalize Democracy. Move to Amend.
The New Hampshire Gazette
Groups Call for More Democratic Constitution on Anniversary of Bill of Rights Ratification On the anniversary of the 1791 ratification of the Bill of Rights, two pro-democracy human rights groups, Democracy Unlimited and Move to Amend, are calling for mass public participation to envision a more just and democratic U.S. Constitution. Toward a People’s Constitution is a website [ www.
January 1st 2021, 6:06 pm
No Labels? No Thanks!
The New Hampshire Gazette
To the Editor: I may feel better about our Nation than you do and it has nothing to do with Biden or Trump. On Tuesday evening we heard from Republican and Democratic U.S. House members about how they have been working together as No Labels Problem Solvers. We heard stories of Republican and Democratic friendships, helping colleagues from the other party and losing committee positions for siding...
January 1st 2021, 5:06 pm
Is more technology the answer to too much technology?
The New Hampshire Gazette
We humans have got to get a whole lot smarter, says Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla automobiles and CEO of SpaceX rockets. Musk is not merely reacting to humanity’s recent tendency to elect lunatics to lead our countries. Rather, he’s trying to warn us about the rapid rise of a radical new technology: Artificial intelligence. In common parlance, he’s referring to robots...
January 1st 2021, 5:06 pm
We May Survive Inept Sedition, But…
The New Hampshire Gazette
Dear Editor: “Incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government, or any action (especially in speech or writing) promoting such discontent or rebellion.” That is Webster’s least complicated definition of sedition and what, in my modest opinion, the President of the United States, 18 states attorney generals, at least 126 Congressmen and women, and a multitude of enablers who eagerly...
January 1st 2021, 5:06 pm
Trashing the Joint on the Way Out The Door
The New Hampshire Gazette
To the Editor: Millions of Americans had their unemployment checks cut off because President Trump left town without signing or even vetoing Congress’s bill to fund the government and provide pandemic relief funds. He paid no interest in the bill the whole time Congress was haggling over its contents. He left it to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to represent the White House. Suddenly...
January 1st 2021, 5:06 pm
Year’s Most Miserable Day Allegedly Coming Soon
The New Hampshire Gazette
[Note: As readers may well imagine, we are bombarded daily with all sorts of pitches from myriad PR outfits trying to somehow make a buck out of this dog-eat-dog economy. In most cases these pitches are dismissed before we finish reading the subject line. “Such-and-Such Computing Inc. Submits Application for Nasdaq Uplisting.” Yes, we’ll get right on that. Today, though, we got one that spoke our...
January 1st 2021, 5:06 pm
Solar Winds Hack – Preventing Future Energy & Security Catastrophe
The New Hampshire Gazette
by Roy Morrison The Solar Winds hack, attributed to Russian intelligence, exposes the existential vulnerability of the U.S. electrical infrastructure including its nuclear plants. The control and safety of our electric grid is now in the trustworthy hands of Vladimir Putin. What could possibly go wrong? What? We do not want to be at the mercy of malign foreign actors? The transformation to a...
January 1st 2021, 5:06 pm
Excerpt from the Congressional Record January 9, 2018
The New Hampshire Gazette
[Note: A reader suggested that we reprint a column written by Art Buchwald circa October, 1972. The gist of it was that President Nixon had uncovered a massive plot to steal his Presidency; millions of people were expected to rise up against him on November 4th…. We were unable to locate that treasure, but found the following one in the Congressional Record. It seems equally relevant. – The Ed.]...
January 1st 2021, 5:06 pm
Midnight Sky Spoiler Alert!
The New Hampshire Gazette
Dear Editor: Film star George Clooney acts in and directed a made-for-Netflix movie not to miss. The Midnight Sky proceeds with a good cast of characters, and two settings: Antarctica and space. At the end the space sojourners, planning for return to Earth, must cancel. The view from their ship is not of a pretty blue and white orb. The view is orange and gray conflagration. Our lovely planet is...
January 1st 2021, 5:06 pm
Fri, Jan 1
The New Hampshire Gazette
2006—Speaking to amputee vets of his Iraq War, George W.[MD] Bush says “I have an injury myself [from] combat with a cedar. I eventually won.” 1994—NAFTA screws unions, farmers, and the environment, but the Zapatistas stand up to fight back. 1975—Nixon cronies H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and John Mitchell are convicted of felonies. 1959—Castro’s commies take Cuba. 1880—Elmer J. McCurdy...
January 1st 2021, 12:42 am
Thurs, Dec 31
The New Hampshire Gazette
1997—Quaker Oats pays $1.8 million to settle a lawsuit over their secret feeding of radioactive oatmeal to developmentally-disabled kids. 1995—Bill and Monica enjoy their third tryst in a White House study. 1970—Congress repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. 1970—Associated Milk Producers, Inc. gets $100 million in price supports in exchange for its $2 million donation to the Nixon campaign.
December 31st 2020, 12:18 am
Wed, Dec 30
The New Hampshire Gazette
2015—At the North Pole, the temperature rises above 32° for six hours. 2006—Saddam Hussein’s inelegant demise is captured by cellphone. 1994—In Brookline, Mass., John Salvi lives out his “pro-life” creed by killing two health care workers. 1978—A House Select Committee concludes that conspirators “probably” helped kill JFK and MLK. 1971—Daniel Ellsberg is indicted for having set free the truth.
December 30th 2020, 12:04 am
Tues, Dec 29
The New Hampshire Gazette
2006—The UK pays off its $100,000,000 WW II debt to the U.S. 1989—Playwright Vaclav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia. 1975—Eleven people are killed and 74 wounded when a bomb explodes in a storage locker at LaGuardia Airport. The crime remains unsolved. 1972—Operation Linebacker II, which R. Nixon will call “my terrible personal ordeal,” ends. U.S. losses: 15 downed B-52s...
December 29th 2020, 12:06 am
Mon, Dec 28
The New Hampshire Gazette
2013—Congress ends long-term unemployment benefits to 1.3 million Americans, damaging the economy to the tune of an estimated 240,000 jobs. 1986—Terry Dolan, Republican critic of gay rights, dies of AIDS. 1983—Dr. George Graham, of President Reagan’s Task Force on Food Assistance, says Black children are “probably the best-nourished group in the U.S.”—citing athletes as proof. 1973—In space...
December 28th 2020, 12:38 am
Sun, Dec 27
The New Hampshire Gazette
1986—In San Diego, Cara Evelyn Knott is strangled by on-duty Highway Patrolman Craig Alan Peyer. 1981—Supreme Court Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist checks into a hospital to kick his Placidyl habit and end the hallucinations. 1953—Mass. bans EC Comics’ version of “The Night Before Christmas.” Illustrated by Will Elder, it features a just-divorced Santa driving a Cadillac sled and giving...
December 27th 2020, 12:12 am
Sat, Dec 26
The New Hampshire Gazette
2002—Americans learn a new euphemism from the Washington Post: “extraordinary rendition” means kidnapping and torture. 1996—From a pool of 1,500 candidates, the press selects JonBenet Ramsey as the most important child murdered in the U.S. this year. 1991—The Supreme Soviet meets one last time and dissolves the USSR. 1971—Disgruntled Vietnam veterans occupy the Statue of Liberty.
December 26th 2020, 1:36 am
Fri, Dec 25
The New Hampshire Gazette
1989—Romania celebrates Christmas and freedom by putting former President Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena before a firing squad. 1956—In Birmingham, Ala., civil rights activist Fred Shuttlesworth survives the bombing of his home. 1951—In Mims, Fla., a bomb explodes under the home of NAACP leaders Harry T. and Harriette Moore on the night of their 25th anniversary. Both die; no one is indicted...
December 25th 2020, 12:09 am
Thurs, Dec 24
The New Hampshire Gazette
2003—Responding to “credible intel,” Mike Hayden tells his British counterpart to take over his NSA duties if al-Qaeda nukes D.C. on Xmas. 1992—George Herbert [Hoover] Walker Bush pardons Caspar “Cap” Weinberger, Bob McFarlane, and 4 other Iran-Contra creeps, coincidentally protecting his own sorry self. 1979—The Soviet Army enters Afghanistan to prop up the Marxist government. Oops.
December 24th 2020, 12:07 am
Wed, Dec 23
The New Hampshire Gazette
2004—NASA reports that the asteroid Apophis has one chance in 233 of hitting Earth in 2029. 1994—Tipped off by a Boston FBI agent that he’s about to be arrested, James “Whitey” Bulger takes a powder. He’s on the lam for 16.5 years. 1988—The FCC bans indecency on radio and TV; somehow, though, they still report on war and politics. 1986—The airplane Voyager completes its nonstop circumnavigation.
December 23rd 2020, 12:11 am
Tues, Dec 22
The New Hampshire Gazette
2001—Richard Reid’s shoe-bomb fizzles, but all air passengers must now remove shoes before boarding. 1989—RIP Samuel Beckett. 1984—Asked for money on a New York subway, Bernhard Goetz responds with lead instead. Then he flees to New Hampshire. Of course. 1981—Ronald Reagan gives the poor 30 million lbs. of moldy cheese. 1974—Seymour Hersh exposes the CIA’s Operation Chaos in the New York Times: 10...
December 22nd 2020, 12:15 am
Mon, Dec 21
The New Hampshire Gazette
2008—Todd Carmichael reaches the South Pole after traveling 692 miles on skis and on foot, solo. 2006—Saparmurat Niyazov’s term of office ends. Turkmenistan’s President for Life leaves a legacy of many golden statues…of himself. 2004—In Fort Valley, Ga., Larry Taylor refuses to give his cell phone to a would-be thief, who then shoots him in the head. Taylor walks two miles to his mother’s home...
December 21st 2020, 12:18 am
Sun, Dec 20
The New Hampshire Gazette
2002—The ten largest U.S. brokerage houses cough up $1.44 billion in fines rather than risk a trial over charges that they fleeced their customers. 2002—Sen. Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) steps down after lamenting Strom Thurmond’s failure to win the Presidency on a racist platform in 1948. 1989—The U.S. invades Panama to arrest ex-CIA asset Manuel Noriega. 1986—Chased by a mob of young...
December 20th 2020, 12:06 am
Sat, Dec 19
The New Hampshire Gazette
2007—A fire breaks out near “Dick” Cheney’s office. Probable cause: spontaneous inhuman combustion. 1998—As Bill Clinton is being impeached for some hanky-panky, Speaker-elect Bob Livingston resigns to cover up a bit of his own. 1984—Due to a work speedup, 27 coal miners are killed in Utah. 1974—Norris Cotton finagles a bill giving New Hampshire’s senior Senator the right in perpetuity to...
December 19th 2020, 12:09 am
Rebuild Our Democracy Through Community Rights
The New Hampshire Gazette
To the Editor: Oh man, what a mess our democracy is in! It was a mess before Trump and the pandemic but it’s a bigger mess now—we can all agree on that right? What we need now, and what we’ve needed for decades, is to rebuild our democracy through the community rights movement. This is also called “community organizing” and the objective is to build citizen action groups in every town and...
December 18th 2020, 5:06 pm
How The Declaration Dethroned God
The New Hampshire Gazette
The Declaration of Independence announces the sublime truth, that all power comes from the people. This was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others. It was the first grand assertion of the dignity of the human race. It declared the governed to be the source of power, and in fact denied the authority of any and all...
December 18th 2020, 5:06 pm
Embracing Ecological Realism
The New Hampshire Gazette
by Robert C. Koehler Our post-election hope couldn’t be more fragile. Does Joe Biden see his mission as merely reclaiming “situation normal” from Donald Trump? How aware is he of the big, beyond-our-lifetimes future and the crucial need to address climate change? Is he able to acknowledge that human interests go well beyond national borders? And if so, how much political traction would he have to...
December 18th 2020, 5:06 pm
‘Nones’ Elected Biden-Harris
The New Hampshire Gazette
by James A. Haught Americans who say their religion is “none” delivered the White House to the Biden-Harris Democratic ticket in the 2020 election. That’s the conclusion of a top socio-political researcher, Dr. Ryan Burge of Eastern Illinois University. “I think that Joe Biden should thank the ‘nones’ for being the president-elect right now,” Dr. Burge wrote for the Religion in Public website.
December 18th 2020, 5:06 pm
About That Electoral College…
The New Hampshire Gazette
Dear Editor, “Everything was done in strict compliance with applicable law, under the advice of counsel and tax experts,” said Alan Garten, the Trump Organization’s general counsel, as quoted in the New York Times (“Manhattan D.A. Intensifies Investigation of Trump,” December 11, 2020). That mantra is used to defend a man whose taxes and financial dealings are under investigation for fraud.
December 18th 2020, 5:06 pm
Eat More Test-Tube Burgers
The New Hampshire Gazette
To the Editor, If President-elect Joe Biden is serious about addressing climate change, he should support federal funding for cultured-meat research. For those who don’t know, cultured meat is grown from cells, without slaughtering our fellow creatures. It will dramatically reduce the environmental damage caused by animal agriculture. Cultured meat requires a fraction of the land, freshwater...
December 18th 2020, 5:06 pm
Beware Heuristic Traps
The New Hampshire Gazette
Dear Editor: I’ve just read Holderness resident Ty Gagne’s new book, The Last Traverse: Tragedy and Resilience in the Winter Whites. I bought additional copies for Christmas gifts, going to both Gibson’s in Concord and Innisfree Bookstore in Meredith. Other New Hampshire bookstores should carry it. Ty’s career is in risk management. His new book is about a hike gone tragically wrong on Mt.
December 18th 2020, 5:06 pm
The Republican Cult
The New Hampshire Gazette
To the Editor: The refusal by the Supreme Court to consider Texas Attorney General Paxton’s bogus suit to void the presidential election results for four battleground states was greeted with relief by most Americans. The decision should guarantee that the validity of Joe Biden’s election will not be challenged by more baseless lawsuits. Few expect, however, that Trump will ever accept the fact...
December 18th 2020, 5:06 pm
Robot farmers—E-I-E-I-O!
The New Hampshire Gazette
How’re you gonna keep ’em down on the farm after they’ve seen…Angus? Not “Angus,” the breed of cattle, but Angus, the 1,000-pound “farmer of the future.” He is not actually a he, but an it: A robot, toiling away on an indoor hydroponic farm that is soilless, and—yes—soulless. Programmed by a multimillion-dollar Silicon Valley start-up named Iron Ox, Angus’ homestead is an 8,000-square-foot...
December 18th 2020, 5:06 pm
Don’t Withhold Hazard Pay
The New Hampshire Gazette
by Andrew Moss As with many issues raised by this pandemic, the problem of hazard pay is fraught with deep, multiple inequities. Like the compensation that traditionally remunerated particularly dangerous work in such fields as military service, mining, or construction, hazard pay was introduced early in the pandemic to recognize the risks and dangers that frontline essential workers face every...
December 18th 2020, 5:06 pm
Fri, Dec 18
The New Hampshire Gazette
2019—Donald Trump is impeached. 2005—“Not only can we win the war in Iraq,” says George W.[MD] Bush 962 days after Mission Accomplished, “we’re winning the war in Iraq.” 2004—“America’s Most Wanted’s” John Walsh says he most wants Jahbir and Alfonso Fowle caught. 2000—“If this were a dictatorship,” says George W.[MD] Bush on CNN, “it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.
December 18th 2020, 12:11 am
Thurs, Dec 17
The New Hampshire Gazette
2010—Street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself afire, thereby igniting the Tunisian Revolution and the subsequent Arab Spring. 2006—Bill Kristol predicts on “Fox News Sunday,” “Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary.” 1998—Impeachment pending, Bill Clinton wags the dog: half the Pentagon’s cruise missiles explode in Iraq. 1967—“I know this beach like the...
December 17th 2020, 12:02 am
Wed, Dec 16
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2005—The New York Times reports that the NSA has been tapping U.S. telephones without a warrant. 2001—U.S. troops at Tora Bora ask for help catching Osama bin Laden. Donald Rumsfeld denies their request; Osama walks. 1988—Bush #41 nominates notoriously boozy womanizer Sen. John Tower [R-Texas] to run the Department of Defense. His confirmation hearings do not go well. 1988—Perennial Presidential...
December 16th 2020, 12:09 am
Sat, Dec 12
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2006—The Portsmouth Herald misquotes Sen. Barack Obama [D-Ill.], who, the day before, in Portsmouth, did not say, “The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.” 2005— “I think we are welcomed [in Iraq],” says George W.[MD] Bush, “but it was not a peaceful welcome.” 2000—The Supreme Court selects George W.[MD] Bush as the 43rd President of these disunited states. 1998—For good...
December 15th 2020, 2:04 pm
Wed, Dec 9
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2019—Leaked documents reveal that officials lied about the war in Afghanistan. Some profess to be shocked. 2008—The Governor of Illinois, Democrat Rod Blagojevich, is arrested for attempting to sell a Senate seat. 1983—Ed “Meese is a Pig” Meese says people go to soup kitchens because it’s “easier than paying.” 1970—Because he’s talking to General Al Haig, Henry Kissinger keeps it simple:
December 15th 2020, 2:04 pm
Tues, Dec 15
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2000—Sen. Phil Gramm gives Enron the energy futures deregulation it wants, hidden in an appropriations bill. One year later Enron is bankrupt. 1997—Paula Jones’ lawyers maneuver Bill Clinton into signing a legal document claiming he’d not had sex with government workers. 1986—Bill Casey, CIA director, suffers a handy seizure, preventing him from testifying about Iran/Contra. 1983—Ed Meese denies...
December 15th 2020, 2:04 pm
Mon, Dec 7
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2006—The “Justice” Department fires eight prosecutors for failing to persecute enough Democrats. 1997—Six skydivers leap from a plane over the South Pole. Three of them die when their chutes fail to open. 1995—France is virtually paralyzed when 1.75 million workers protest global exploitation. 1993—The Department of Energy admits it conducted more than 200 secret weapons tests. 1987—A disgruntled...
December 15th 2020, 2:04 pm
Tues, Dec 8
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2006—Congress votes to destroy the U.S. Postal Service by making it pre-fund pensions for 50 years. 2004—Soldiers in Iraq ask Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld why their vehicles aren’t armored. He says, “You go to war with the Army you have…not the Army you might want.” 1993—Bill Clinton signs NAFTA, shipping umpteen jobs elsewhere. 1982—To jumpstart a national dialogue on banning nuclear weapons...
December 15th 2020, 2:04 pm
Mon, Dec 14
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2012—N.H.-born Adam Lanza shoots his gun-enthusiast mother, six other adults, and 20 kids at a Newtown, Conn. school. 2008—“This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog,” yells Muntadhar al-Zaidi, as he flings his shoe at George W.[MD] Bush. 2005—George W.[MD] Bush blames his Iraq War on “faulty intelligence.” He doesn’t say whose. 1987—Chrysler admits it sold thousands of used cars as...
December 15th 2020, 2:04 pm
Sun, Dec 13
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2009—Sen. Joe Lieberman [I-Conn.] nixes a Medicare public option. 2003—U.S. troops drag Saddam Hussein out of a hole in the ground, so final victory in Iraq must be imminent. U.S. death toll so far: 547. 2000—Al Gore decides he’d rather be righteous than be president. 1988—In Texas, Ray Landry’s death is delayed 14 minutes when a tube falls from his arm and lethal chemicals spray across the room.
December 15th 2020, 2:04 pm
Fri, Dec 11
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2006—President George W.[MD] Bush, on national TV, denies having ever been “a knee-walking drunk.” 2000—The Supreme Court hears Bush v. Gore. 1998—President Clinton begs forgiveness for his sins. Instead he gets three Articles of Impeachment. 1985—Veep George H.[H.]W. Bush, at a Manchester, N.H., dinner honoring the late William Loeb, reads aloud Loeb’s most scurrilous attacks against him.
December 15th 2020, 2:04 pm
Sun, Dec. 6
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1967—Chaplain Angelo “Charlie” Liteky carries 23 wounded men to safety in Vietnam despite intense hostile fire. For his bravery he is given the Medal of Honor, which he returns in 1986 to protest U.S. foreign policy. 1962—Speaking to journalists at the Deadline Club in New York City, Pentagon spokesman Arthur Sylvester says “It’s [the] government’s right, if necessary, to lie to save itself when...
December 15th 2020, 2:04 pm
Thurs, Dec 10
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2011—The gundalow Piscataqua is launched on the eponymous river. 2004—Gary Webb, who exposed the CIA-Contra drug connection, dies from two gunshots in the face. The coroner calls it suicide. 1998—House Judiciary Committee debates impeaching Pres. Clinton for lying about his lewd behavior. 1992—Sen. Bob Packwood (Lecher-Ore.) apologizes for being a serial groper but refuses to resign. 1987—Murderer...
December 15th 2020, 2:04 pm
Wed, Dec 2
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1986—Pres. Ronald Reagan says he can’t remember what he knew about Iran-Contra, or when he knew it. 1984—Union Carbide’s Bhopal, India plant springs a leak. It’s a corporation, though, so, no consequences—other than up to 16,000 people dead. 1980—Lyndon LaRouche’s Executive Intelligence Review breaks the story of the “October Surprise.” 1980—U.S.-backed death squads murder four nuns in El Salvador.
December 2nd 2020, 12:10 am
Tues, Dec 1
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2017—One-time Trump National Security Advisor and ex-general Michael Flynn does the perp walk. 2007—Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, at Federal Cigar in Portsmouth, refuses to autograph a New Hampshire Gazette for counterman Dave McNicholas, but agrees to sign a photo of himself—which he takes with him when he leaves. 2003—Howard Dean, leading the pack in polling, tells Chris Matthews he’ll...
December 1st 2020, 12:16 am
Mon, Nov 30
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2016—Trump spokesperson Scottie Nell Hughes—pro-gun despite her brother having been shot dead at eight by a 12-year-old—tells NPR’s Diane Rehm, “There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore, of facts.” [sic] 1999—A WTO meeting in Seattle is called off due to anarchists. 1974—Rep. Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.) appears onstage at Boston’s Pilgrim Theater with stripper Fanne Foxe. 1972—Nixon spokesdrone Ron...
November 30th 2020, 12:23 am
Sun, Nov 29
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2015—Professing concern about the lives of fetuses, Robert L. Dear murders three adults and wounds nine more as he shoots up a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado. 2011—Ex-Arapahoe County (Colo.) Sheriff Patrick Sullivan, arrested for exchanging methamphetamine for sex with a male informant, is incarcerated in an eponymous jail. 1976—After Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally plugs his bass player in...
November 29th 2020, 12:14 am
Sat, Nov 28
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2014—Cards Against Humanity, to express its disdain for consumerism on Black Friday, removes all products but one from its online store: a $6 box of “literal feces, from an actual bull.” 2008—At a Long Island Wal-Mart, shoppers literally bust doors and trample Jdimytai Damour, 34, to death. 2005—Ex-Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-Calif.) pleads guilty to selling votes and dodging taxes. 1979—Bogus...
November 28th 2020, 12:17 am
Fri, Nov 27
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2002—Donald Rumsfeld signs off on “Category III” interrogation techniques—namely, torture. 2001—Gen. Tommy Franks, working on catching Osama bin Laden, is told by Donald Rumsfeld to drop that and revise plans to attack Iraq. 1997—In New York, a lampost fatally stabs Macy’s Barney the Dinosaur balloon. Meanwhile, the Cat in the Hat knocks over a lampost, which then falls on two women...
November 27th 2020, 12:24 am
Thurs, Nov 26
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2000—Katherine Harris, Florida’s Secretary of Stateand, coincidentally, the Bush campaign’s state co-chair, declares Dubya the winner. 1975—George Gainous, son of a heroin importer, climbs the White House fence to ask for his father’s pardon. Arrested 90 minutes later while chatting with President Ford’s daughter Susan, he later says, “If [Ford] can pardon Nixon he can pardon my father.
November 26th 2020, 12:15 am
Wed, Nov 25
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1997—In Plymouth, Mass., police serve Native American demonstrators a generous helping of pepper-spray. 1986—As Ed “Meese is a Pig” Meese confesses that profits from illegal arms sales to Iran went to Nicaraguan contras, a reluctant Ronald Reagan fires Lt. Col. Oliver North. 1974—Britain outlaws the IRA after two bombs kill 21 and injure over 100 in Birmingham. 1968—Death of Upton Sinclair...
November 25th 2020, 12:15 am
Tues, Nov 24
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2006—“The only way we can win [in Iraq],” says George W.[MD] Bush, “is to leave before the job is done.” 1979—The U.S. admits troops in ’Nam were hit by Agent Orange. 1976—Steven B. Williams rams a White House gate with his pickup truck at 25 mph. It doesn’t budge. 1971—Toting $200,000 in ransom cash, “D.B. Cooper” parachutes from a hijacked 727 over Washington State, into oblivion and America’s...
November 24th 2020, 12:02 am
Mon, Nov 23
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1986—Two men escape from a maximum-security prison in Rome in a hijacked helicopter. 1981—R. Reagan signs a secret directive creating the [illegal] Contras. 1976—Jerry Lee Lewis is arrested outside Graceland for waving a pistol and demanding to see Elvis. 1970—A Lithuanian radio operator jumps from a Russian trawler onto the deck of the Coast Guard cutter Vigilant. Commander Ralph Eustis allows...
November 23rd 2020, 12:33 am
Sun, Nov 22
The New Hampshire Gazette
2000—Two dozen well-dressed hooligans, many on the GOP’s payroll, intimidate Miami election officials into shutting down a Presidential recount. 1975—U.S.S. John F. Kennedy and U.S.S. Belknap collide in the night near Sicily. A two-hour fire aboard the Belknap stops 30 feet short of the nuclear weapons magazine. 1963—In Dallas, Texas, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated; at whose bidding is...
November 22nd 2020, 12:04 am
The Democratic Party Has One Last Chance
The New Hampshire Gazette
by W.D. Ehrhart I have been feeling increasingly bleak and anxious ever since last March. And these past couple of weeks, as the presidential election has loomed larger and larger, have left me almost dysfunctional. The thought of another four years of this Monster in the White House left me wallowing in the depths of despair because suicide is not a viable option, and I’m too old and not rich...
November 21st 2020, 11:30 am
Sat, Nov 21
The New Hampshire Gazette
2016—The Guardian reports that D. Trump’s grandfather was refused re-entry to Germany in 1905 because he had dodged military service. 2004—Donald Trump’s casinos in Atlantic City file for bankruptcy. 1986—Ollie North and Fawn Hall start shredding evidence of criminal arms-for-hostages deals. 1974—Somehow, George W.[MD] Bush is honorably discharged, instead of court martialed for being AWOL.
November 21st 2020, 1:10 am
The New Hampshire Gazette Digital Edition Volume 265, No. 5, November 20, 2020
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November 20th 2020, 7:10 pm
The Cuckoo Coup
The New Hampshire Gazette
In a sane country it wouldn’t have even been a contest, but we live in Freedomland. A quarter of a million people are dead, killed by a plague the incumbent treated as a political opportunity rather than a threat to national health. The infection rate and the Dow Jones are soaring, even as Main Street is collapsing. Despite all that, the election was so close it took four days to get a clear...
November 20th 2020, 7:10 pm
The Winter of our Dissolution?
The New Hampshire Gazette
We ought to be inured by now to this recurring political cycle. After all, it’s been going on for nearly a century. Even our legendary level of ironic distance, though, fails to provide an adequate level of psychic insulation. In short, this is too damn much. We cannot put a stop to it, but, by god, we can describe it. One party forces the country to accept some dubious policy choice.
November 20th 2020, 5:36 pm
Flotsam & Jetsam
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Forest ranger at Yosemite National Park, explaining why it is hard to design the perfect garbage bin to keep bears from breaking into it: “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.” – @mathematicsprof –=≈=– Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
November 20th 2020, 5:36 pm
Sick Rulers
The New Hampshire Gazette
Dear Editor: In the 1980s we had a made-for-TV movie, “The Day After,” about nuclear exchange between Russia and the U.S. Now we are at the day after the 2020 election. Out-of-whack President Trump is making up and distorting what happens with a democracy’s election. He wants vote counting stopped in some states but continued in others, depending on whether that would help him stay in our White...
November 20th 2020, 5:36 pm
Death of Democracy
The New Hampshire Gazette
Richard Rorty, a prominent 20th-century philosopher and public intellectual, wrote an obscure book in 1998, Achieving Our Country, looking back on America from a vantage point 100 years in the future. Defying belief, he correctly predicted the election of a strongman in our country in 2014, missing by only two years the rise of Trump. Rorty based his prophecy on a trend that he saw already...
November 20th 2020, 5:36 pm
A One-Time Aberration
The New Hampshire Gazette
Dear Mr. Fowle, Within this email I have written a mammoth a letter. I hope you will forgive me for any headaches or eye soreness induced if you humor me and read it. I started writing and did not, and frankly could not, stop. Then I edited, and rather than excising content like any good editor would, I added even more. A previous letter in your paper by a self-proclaimed “doctor” about the...
November 20th 2020, 5:36 pm
A Mash Note to the Flag Police
The New Hampshire Gazette
To the Editor: After watching a several minutes long tribute to veterans on WWE’s Monday Night Raw, it occurred to me that yahoos who parade around in camo toting assault weapons are disrespecting military veterans who wear that garb and carry those weapons into combat. One wonders how many flag wavers think that’s all there is to patriotism, and how many who wear the flag are aware that they’re...
November 20th 2020, 5:05 pm
Incompetence and Negligence at the Top
The New Hampshire Gazette
Dear Sir: In a recent interview regarding the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Governor Sununu said, “The State could be looking at 500 to 1,000 new daily cases by the end of the month.” He further stated, “I am assuming we’re beginning the phase of a very aggressive spike.” Dr. Benjamin Chan, the New Hampshire State Epidemiologist warned, “This is a virus that likes to take advantage of crowds...
