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March 1, 2018 — To download this issue of our paper, just click on the image at right. Deciding what is an emergency and what is not is no simple matter these days. Tradition says beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Now, it appears, so are existential dread and the diversion of Federal resources for use in electoral campaigning. New Hampshire Republicans want to kill a black man of limited mental capacity, to emphasize the point that it’s wrong to kill people. Democrats want to kill the death penalty, instead. We suspect Susan the Bruce is right—if the Republicans get their way, they’ll …

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February 15, 2018 — To download this issue of our paper, just click on the image at right. You know that events have gotten deeply weird when this newspaper quotes with approval a British Field Marshal who later became a Tory Prime Minister. For that matter, who would ever have expected that a sleazy publisher would have so much in common with the nation’s most infamous G-Man? Perverse to the end, Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr.—Rochester, New Hampshire’s least-favorite son—bucks this trend. By dying, he’s made the world a lot more normal. On page eight: About 140 or 150 historical items worthy of note, curated by …

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February 1, 2018 — To download this issue of our paper, just click on the image at right. We found the spectacle of the Grand Yam submitting to the assembled might of the nation’s flight attendants and air traffic controllers so delectable that we attempted to preserve the feel of the moment. Before we were through we had traced the connection between General John Stark, the Hero of Bennington, New Hampshire’s famed motto, Live Free or Die,” and the regicidal Jacobins who terrorized France’s aristocrats and beheaded King Louis XVI. Also in the spirit of carpe diem, we considered the candidacy of bad-coffee king Howard …

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January 18, 2018 — To download this issue of our paper, just click on the image at right. A Republican—of sorts—is in the White House, and the government has been shut down. We should be surprised? Though this situation is to some degree predictable, we tried to tally up a few of its more ridiculous features anyway. Why not? We’re taxpayers. We want to get our money’s worth somehow, even if we have to work for it. Like a deranged killer from a horror movie, a scheme to short-change our disabled veterans, declared dead eighteen months ago, now stalks the land again. And, finally, on …

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January 4, 2018 — To download this issue of our paper, just click on the image at right. It’s a time of transition in Washington, D.C. — and rarely has that been so welcome. We take a mercifully brief look back at the 115th Congress, from a unique location. Ours is the nation’s swingiest swing district. It doesn’t just bounce from left to right, but up and down, too, on the ethical scale. Reuters has been producing some truly disturbing news about the state of housing on our military bases. It seems to have been largely obscured by a whole lot of foofaraw. We have …

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December 21, 2018 — To download this issue of our paper, just click on the image at right. “Life is short. Eat dessert first.” — Jacques Torres Whenever it’s possible to do so without risking dereliction of duty, we try to ignore Occupant, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—the world’s most expensive public housing unit. Too much of a bad thing can be, well, just too much. This fortnight, though, we couldn’t resist catching up with Mr. Big Brain. Pass up a good laugh? In times like these? Thus we begin with a rant of a somewhat dessert-like nature. We tried to tone down the levity with the …

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