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admin Wednesday, July 25 — Sigh. We’re more than a little preoccupied finishing up our Vol. 251, No. 22, due at the printer’s tomorrow, and on the streets Friday, but inspired by a faithful reader and erstwhile volunteer we hastened to get up a post on Monday about the possibility of actually getting Congress to impeach a certain arch-criminal. Now, it appears, our hopes were in vain. Rather than re-hash, we’ll send you to Jonathan Schwarz’s post at AfterDowningStreet.
Monday, July 23 — Time to impeach, that is. Readers familiar with the paper know that we are in the habit of taking serious things lightly. That is not the case here. We’re presently fairly busy hammering together our next issue, which we expect will be on the street this Friday, as usual. But we’re taking time out here, in response to several urgent e-mails from subscribers, to draw attention to what begins to look like a serious effort to impeach Cheney and Bush. John Conyers, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, says that if three more members of Congress sign on to co-sponsor House …
Saturday, July 14 – Folks, don’t let our recent lack of posts, or this day-late updating of the banner, mislead you into thinking we’re not on the job. We just have a little more job than we have hours in the day. We did in fact get out another 16 pages of high-octane propaganda. And as usual it’s being well-received by the local malcontents. What else would you expect in a town where sights like this guy are not particularly peculiar? Back here tomorrow, perhaps. In the meantime, thanks to Bruce Pingree for tipping us off to Radio Free Amsterdam.
Thursday, July 12–We interrupt our recent torpor to pass along this Special News Flash from Veterans for Common Sense: Please Watch ABC World News and ABC Nightline Tonight Veterans for Common Sense urges our members and supporters to watch tonight’s ABC “World News Tonight” and ABC News “Nightline,” today, Thursday, July 12. The two programs are scheduled to feature breakthrough reporting from Joshua Kors, the journalist who exposed how the Pentagon is abusing the personality disorder diagnosis to kick soldiers out of the military, as reported in The Nation. Kors showed how the military is cheating our wounded Iraq War veterans out of a lifetime …
Saturday, June 2–Daniel Fowle founded The New Hampshire Gazette on October 7, 1756. Last October we celebrated our 250th Anniversary. To honor Daniel and remind ourselves how far we’ve come, we sponsored the appearance, at Strawbery Banke, of Jack Williams and his reproduction of of an 18th century wooden common press. Jack built the press using plans included in the book, The Common Press: Being a Record, Description, and Delineation of the Early Eighteenth-Century Handpress in the Smithsonian Institution, by Elizabeth M. Harris and Clinton Sisson. We post this here, now, just to celebrate our finally figuring out how to make a YouTube video work …
Friday, June 1–Despair not, faithful readers. We are not dead. See yon banner, up above? Note the date – it is today’s! The Post Office has papers for every one of our dear subscribers scattered across the country, lovingly prepared by our labeling crew. Our downtown distribution volunteers have (we’re pretty sure) completed their rounds. In a hundred and fifty locations around the Piscataqua basin, people of all stripes and inclinations are picking up copies. This is what we live for. And here’s a new wrinkle: everyone atttending the 4th Annual DemocracyFest, to be held at the Wayfarer Inn in Bedford this coming weekend, will …