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April 12, 2018 — To download this issue of our paper, just click on the image at right. Scientists have captured an image of a black hole 55 million light years away. Strangely, it reminds us of another incredibly dense, yam-colored object much, much closer to home.Too damn close. Mike Dater graces our pages with a graphic representation succinctly summarizing Vice President Biden’s history of interactions with the female half of humanity. Also covered in his inimitable style: the Moon and Mike Pence, and rules for the pool. Operating much like the stereotypical schoolyard bully, the IRS is shaking down the weak and the poor. …

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March 29, 2018 — To download this issue of our paper, just click on the image at right. Sometimes our editorial department gets a little self-conscious about bringing up The Bad War. No, not the one that’s going on now, apparently all over the place. (Seriously—Niger? Oh, well, at least it was a tactical victory.) No, we refer to the one which ended 46 years ago today. The one whose combatants, truck drivers, cooks and clerk typists we celebrate today—as we’re sure everyone is well aware. Much as we would like to get with the program and pretend like everyone else that it never happened, …

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March 15, 2018 — To download this issue of our paper, just click on the image at right. Wow! Didn’t see that coming. The Democratic Party’s sudden display of assertiveness is assessed in the Fortnightly Rant. Michael Dater renders tender portraits of the newly feisty Democratic Party, the sentencing of the President’s former campaign manager, and two American icons trying to live up to the First Lady’s aspirational motto. The New Hampshire State Legislature, aka the General Court, once again makes the national news. Why, yes, it is about guns. How did you guess? The Flag Police provide the FTC with a little backup, in …

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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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