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You Can Question General Petraeus at St. Anselms This Wednesday

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Friday, March 19, 2010 — CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus (who has denied any Presidential ambitions) “will Hold a Conversation with the Community … about the surge in Iraq and the role of American forces overseas,” as a guest of The New Hampshire Institute of Politics (NHIOP), at St. Anselm’s in Manchester this coming Wednesday, March 24th. “Members of the community,” we’re told officially, “are invited to help shape that conversation by suggesting questions for the general. The event will be recorded by Comcast and made available through On Demand at a date to be announced.” “Questions should be submitted by Monday, March 22, on …

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Class Will Out

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Monday, March 8, 2010 — Finding a parking space in Portsmouth can be a challenge for anyone. Those who appreciate the finer things in life are used to taking these challenges in stride, however — the driver of this Mercedes-Benz E350 ($48,000 – $86,000), for instance. Early Monday afternoon, he parked his elegant buggy (New York plate number EUW 1284) athwart the crosswalk at High and Congress streets. The driver did not appear to be particularly thrilled when he saw that his handiwork was being documented. To his misfortune, however, there were no officers of the law on hand to apprehend our Wandering Photographer on …

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The Robin Hood Tax

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010 — The alleged editor of this venerable institution just became the 29,330th person to join the band of merry men and women supporting the Robin Hood Tax. Granted, this effort is focused on Great Britain, a land whose monarch we renounced centuries ago. That does not, however, invalidate the concept. Our mischievous readers might like to visit robinhoodtax.org.uk to give their own opinion. When last we checked, “Yes” had 61,322 votes, while “No” had just 6,097.

News Noise

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Monday, February 15, 2009 — For the better part of an hour, helicopters have been circling over the Hilton Gardens Hotel in Portsmouth, covering a carbon monoxide incident. One woman was reported to have been found unresponsive, and eleven people have been treated for symptoms of carbon monoxide exposure. Everyone in the downtown area has been subjected to more than an hour of gratuitous noise.

Resources for Overturning Corporate Personhood

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010 — Our paper this Friday will contain another intemperate Fortnightly Rant against the pernicious legal fiction of corporate personhood. What is corporate personhood? “Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property. Corporate personhood is the legal fiction that property is a person.” Friday’s Rant will conclude by steering people here for the following links: So far as we have been able to determine, The Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy got the ball rolling by researching this problem starting in the early 1990s. Here’s their Wikipedia entry. A valuable timeline of the history of corporate personhood, based on the …

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Congratulations, Rodman Philbrick!

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010 — This just in: Rodman Philbrick, who writes our Moving Picture reviews, has received a Newbery Honor for The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, “a rip-roaring tale that follows Homer Figg as he sets off to find his brother in the thick of the Civil War. The Newbery Honor is quite a distinguished award. Rod, though, being the modest sort of guy he is, didn’t even mention it when he sent in his last review.