The following is a worm-eaten chestnut that has been generally ignored over the course of time: Democracy is a particiption sport. Then there is this addendum: You get the government you vote for. Routinely these bromides are served up as exhortations for citizens to get out and vote. Now they ...
Taking issue with an issue in Merrimack’s school district An agreement has been reached to allow drug-sniffing dogs at Merrimack High School, which is a great idea – if your goal is to keep drugs out of schools. If your goal is to keep drugs out of students’ hands, well, then, not so ...
Comparisons are easy. Instead of making a detailed case why a young baseball player is worthy of being drafted in the first round, the scout exclaims, “He could be the next Mike Trout.” When a Turkish assassin kills the Russian ambassador in Ankara, amateur historians rush to Twitter to ...
New Hampshire senators this week will vote on a bill to mandate that every public high school student take a civics course before receiving his or her diploma. At a time our state and nation are experiencing vastly differing opinions on politics and the role of government, it is more ...
Several presidents have treated their vice presidents notoriously and sometimes irresponsibly badly. The late President Harry Truman knew all about that. When he took office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, he had to be told about the atomic bomb. Roosevelt had kept him in the ...
The Trump administration's easily disproved claims of rampant voter fraud in New Hampshire, repeated by the president and his associates this past week, remind us of a scandal that took place during President George W. Bush's second term. "In 2007, the Justice Department was upended ...